10 Generation Defining Elements of the PlayStation 3

As one of the three big consoles of the seventh console generation, the PS3 had an extremely strong legacy, but also a very rocky start, as you’ll see in this here list. The PlayStation 2 was in millions of households and held the standard for the core gamer’s console of choice, despite the rise of Microsoft’s XBox at the start of the 2000s. That means that the PS3 had quite a reputation to live up to.

Let’s take a look into how the console has evolved ever since 2005 when it was announced at E3. It is the eve of the eighth generation of consoles, afterall.

Blu-ray

A brand new technology at the time, the Blu-ray disc player was touted as a huge selling point for the console, and for good reason – the price of Blu-ray drives and players was astronomical at the time, and the discs themselves were also rare and cost a fortune. Despite this, the huge data capacity of the media as well as the high reading speed gave the possibility of higher quality movies and more assets in games. Over the years, the Blu-ray has become almost ubiquitous when it comes to high-definition movies, making the PS3 worth it as a multimedia machine.