Official Sony Playstation 3 - PS3 - Announcement

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.

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Complete Sony PS3 Specifications:

Product name		PLAYSTATION®3
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 total floating point performance : 218 GFLOPS
GPU		RSX @550MHz
		1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance
		Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
		Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines
Sound		Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell-base processing)
Memory		256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz
		256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz
System Bandwidth		Main RAM 25.6GB/s
		VRAM 22.4GB/s
		RSX 20GB/s (write) + 15GB/s (read) SB 2.5GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (read)
System Floating Point Performance		2 TFLOPS
Storage	HDD	Detachable 2.5” HDD slot x 1
I/O	USB	Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0)
	Memory Stick	standard/Duo, PRO x 1
	SD	standard/mini x 1
	CompactFlash	(Type I, II) 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	Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)
Controller		Bluetooth (up to 7)
		USB2.0 (wired)
		Wi-Fi (PSP®) Network (over IP)
AV Output		Screen size	480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
		HDMI	HDMI out x 2
		Analog	AV MULTI OUT x 1
		Digital audio	DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1
Disc media * read only	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

More details in Sony PS3 press-release. Sony also has a dedicated E3 2005 site with video reports from the E3 starting today.

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