It would be unfair to say that the cessation of production of Sony’s third desktop catches us by surprise, but nothing is eternal and the seventh generation of consoles had already very generously stretched an unusually long cycle where the PlayStation 3 has remained as the last surviving console .
As indicated by the Gematsu media, and as happened last year with Wii U, Sony’s Japanese website has added a new annotation in the description of its current PS3 models: Shipments are scheduled to end soon .
The PS3 was launched in November 2006 although it would arrive in Europe at the beginning of the following year, distancing itself from the rest of the systems through its Blu-Ray reader (which would end up imposing itself on the HD-DVD) although sharing the philosophies of the generation as the definitive leap from consoles to online gaming or high definition gaming.
The date on which the production of consoles will end is not yet known, although according to a tweet by a Japanese retailer from Fukuoka prefecture, everything indicates that the cessation will take place this month .
This is Tencho.
March 2017. In other words, it seems that the shipment of PS3 will be completed this month. In other words, it means the end of production.
It’s been a little over 10 years since it was released on November 11, 2006. At that time, I never thought that I would do my best in active duty for such a long time.
Anyway, thank you for your hard work!— Game shop VITA Kurume store (@VITA_Kurume)
We are talking about March 2017. This means that this month’s PS3 shipment will be the last one coinciding with the end of production.
Hey, 10 years since it was released on November 11, 2006. After all these years and such long active service, we didn’t even think this day would come.
Anyway, congratulations on a good job!
Curiously, PS3 continues to receive games with some regularity , after more than 10 years in the market, especially thanks to the support of Japanese studios that continue to bet on adapting several of their licenses such as the announced ‘Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2’ or the still unpublished in the West ‘Persona 5’, although it was more and more frequent that these versions only arrived in digital format.
PS3 had the unconditional support of the Third Parties and received the vast majority of PlayStation brand icons and created some new ones like Nathan Drake from ‘Uncharted’ or Joel and Ellie from ‘The Last of Us’ , and even made most will fight each other! We will be attentive to Sony’s statements in the coming days.
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