Sony Playstation 3

Sony published a 7 page press-release about the Sony PS3 on its Japanese site. Good thing they also published an English version. Many details are already floating around the web. The official Sony press-release is most reliable source though. The Press-release says that a prototype of the PS3 will be shown at the E3 show floor. The Sony PS3 is supposed to be launched in Spring 2006 at the E3 2006 - Let's hope that this is a world-wide launch. Sony highlights that the PS3 supports with 1080p (progressive) the highest HD resolution. The Xbox 360 'only' supports 1080i. The press-release contains several quotes from Game Developers praising the Playstation 3. Read below the complete Sony PS3 Specification.

CPU
Cell Processor
PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
1 VMX vector unit per core
512KB L2 cache
7 x SPE @3.2GHz
7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy
floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS

GPU
Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
RSX @550MHz
1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance
Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines

Sound
Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell- base processing)

Memory
256MB XDR Main RAM at 3.2GHz
256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz

System Bandwidth
Main RAM 25.6GB/s
VRAM 22.4GB/s
SBStorage
Detachable 2.5″ HDD slot x 1

I/O
SD standard/mini x 1
USB Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0)
CompactFlash (Type I, II) x 1
Memory Stick standard/Duo, PRO x 1

Communication
Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x 3 (input x 1 + output x 2)
Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)

Controller
Wi-Fi (PSP)
Bluetooth (up to 7)
Network (over IP)
USB 2.0 (wired)

AV Output
Digital audio: DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1
HDMI: HDMI out x 2
Analog: AV MULTI OUT x 1
Screen size: 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p

Disc Media
CD PlayStation CD-ROM, PlayStation 2 CD-ROM, CD-DA, CD-DA (ROM), CD-R, CD-RW, SACD, SACD Hybrid (CD layer), SACD HD, DualDisc, DualDisc (audio side), DualDisc (DVD side)

DVD: PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM, PlayStation 3 DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW

Blu-ray Disc: PlayStation 3 BD-ROM, BD-Video, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE