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Tuesday, May 17, 2005
The new, sleek Playstation 3 design
On Monday, President and CEO of Sony, Ken Kutaragi unveiled the next generation of the PlayStation game console.
The PlayStation 3 console is planned to:
Be based on IBM'sCell processor, containing nine separate processing cores, eight of which are to run at 3.2 GHz.
Contain six USB 2.0 ports and be compatible with a maximum of seven controllers through Bluetooth technology.
Use Blu-ray technology, with which a single disc can hold as much as 50 gigabytes.
Be able to play MP3s and display digital photographs.
Last week, there was a leak of details regarding Microsoft's next console, the Xbox 360. The Xbox 360 contains the same processor as the PlayStation 3, with three cores, also running at 3.2 GHz.
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