Blu-ray could also be Sony's last legitimate excuse for the PS3's price premium, since gamers have yet to see the real benefit of the console's famously revolutionary CELL processor architecture.

There are many differences between gaming consoles, but the biggest and most obvious difference when it comes to the PS3 is the built-in Blu-ray drive. No other game console has built-in Blu-ray ...

Nearly 20 years after its launch, Sony has released a software update for the PS3 that updates the console's Blu-ray player encryption key. The update requires 200MB of storage space and also ...

Within every PS3 gaming console comes the world’s most advanced, most affordable Blu-ray Disc player. That was true a year ago, too. As long as it remains true, though, Blu-ray has no shot at ...

The PlayStation 3 is and will forever be regarded as the best Blu-ray player available. That's right, we said it. Say what you will about how the system racks up against other game consoles, but ...

that the time has finally come where the PS3's jam-packed collection of a powerful video game console, a Blu-ray player, and built-in Wi-Fi met consumers' needs, even as the price dropped to where ...

It looks like Sony has added two new colorful PS3 Slim consoles to its range, which are scheduled to go on sale in Japan in November. The two new colors will be red and blue. The Splash Blue and ...

It revolves around using the console to play Blu-ray discs. The PS3 system software update is about renewing Blu-ray encryption keys The small 200MB update looks to be mostly about renewing the ...

The latest gift: handing the game console market to Microsoft and Nintendo. The Blu-ray albatross The Wall Street Journal (subscription may be required) reports that US sales of the PS3 fell 19% ...

The experience set me thinking about how Blu-ray deployments might affect the game console market — specifically the PS3 market — going forward, and how successful Blu-ray as a format will become.

Sony, on the other hand, chose to hold its ground, releasing the PS3 the following year and simultaneously putting a Blu-ray player in the homes of every person that purchased the console.