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The PS3 first launched in Japan on November 11, 2006
Can you believe it? The PlayStation 3 launched fifteen years ago today. It was an expensive console and a messy launch, with hype overload and some truly bad press conferences. But Sony didn’t give up on the PS3, and neither did gamers.
The PS3 was home to a slew of great exclusives, such as The Last of Us, Demon’s Souls, Little Big Planet, Metal Gear Solid 4, and Yakuza 4. It’s easy to look back at the PS3 as something that was always a terrific game console, but it didn’t start that way.
I remember sitting in the audience at Sony’s E3 press conference, knowing at the time I was witnessing history. It was one of the most embarrassing press conferences in E3 history, spawning seemingly endless memes for years. ($599 US dollars! Giant enemy crabs!)
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