Preface v2
February 2025
So this has been a long time coming, the update to my PS3History book.
Whilst the first edition covered the years from 2005 to 2016, it did include a small snippet from 2001, but the PS3 was first revealed in 2005, which is why I chose that date, this new version will cover from 2005 – 2026, including the 2001 snippet as well as the years between 2001 and 2005.
With the PS3 turning twenty years old on the 11th of November 2026, that year is probably the best year to finish this PS3History project for good.
Apart from updating the years, this will also give me the chance to fix the embarrassing typos and mistakes I had in the first version, there will also be additions to the years I had already covered as it is clear when researching for this version that I had missed a lot of history.
This will be a full history and it might bore some of you, but for others who love history and nostalgia this will be great.
I had written a whole paragraph about my personal life and what had changed since I last updated PS3History, but deleted it because I am sure you didn’t want to read about any of my personal life, the only thing I will mention is that I left the PlayStation Hacking scene in 2019 due to personal reasons, that was probably the best time to leave it any way as the PS4 and PS5 scenes are awful and nothing like the way the PS3 scene was.
Apart from the online version and digital book versions of PS3History, there is also going to be a very limited physical book version of probably about five copies, the digital version and online version will have links to sources, in the physical copy this will be shown using a number and that corresponding number can be then looked up on the online version.
I would like to give Adam Doree and kikizo.com a massive thank you, Adam and his sites archive of news is a valuable source of information.
Thank you also to gamesindustry.biz whose archives also helped a great deal.
Thank you to Wayback Machine, this is an invaluable site, that helped me find old articles on sites like ps3-hacks, Maxconsole, PSX-Scene, PSGroove, Dukio and many more as well as a host of other sites.
Thanks to Modrobert for Eurasia.
Thanks to wraggster owner of DCEMU for not nuking his site like most others have done.
Thanks to StarMelter for the book cover and much of the art I have used over the years.
Thanks to bash for the PS3History header.
Thanks to ModernVintageGamer and SKFU for giving me the push to create this updated version.
This is a huge book containing the history of the PS3 in chronological order, It contains every single detail of the PS3s life, the good, the bad, the official history and the hacking history, I have tried to add as much history as I could find into this version and I advice not reading it in one go, read a year at a time and enjoy.
Thanks for reading.
GregoryRasputin
Below you will read the first proper preface for an independent #PS3History, though if you wish to see how it began back on the 2nd of January 2011, check this link
Preface
November 2013
Hi and welcome to PS3History, on this page i will write an explanation as to why i have created this website and post a little about my life with the PS3.
What Is The Point Of This Website/Book?
I have seen many websites talk about the history of games consoles and whilst those websites are great, they don’t go into the detail that i have with PS3History, i wanted to post the PS3’s journey,
EVERY aspect about its life, all the good and bad that has happened during that journey, nothing has been left out and nothing has been spared, this is the naked, unadulterated life of the PlayStation 3.
What Information Does PS3History Contain?
Information on the consoles Cell processor.
Pre Release Rumours.
Console revealing 2005.
Console revealing 2006.
Japanese PS3 release day.
US release day.
EU release day.
Game release dates.
Official firmware release dates and information.
Pre PS Jailbreak Console Hacks.
Post PS Jailbreak Console Hacks.
Custom Firmware.
Homebrew details.
PSN Hack and fallout.
Court cases.
And so much more……
I have attempted to gather every piece of information that is possible to gather, not everyone will like it, the hardcore Sony fanboys will cry that it is all about PS3 Hacks, but no, its not, it involves every part of the PS3’s life and yes that life includes hacks, to do a complete history, one must include everything.
About Me
My internet nickname is GregoryRasputin, I own and post news on PlayStationHaX.
I got involved with the PS3 Scene, when I got my PS3 on the UK release day in 2007, which
is another story in itself.
I got home, plugged that console in and switched it on, it didn’t work, it gave me a continuous red
flashing light, I was gutted, but I was lucky, my sister worked in Xtra-Vision(Blockbuster) and was able to swap it for me, so I got it home and started playing the game I had bought with it, Genji: Days of
the Blade (Giant Enemy Crab), I was blown away by the beauty of it, even though I was playing it
on an SD TV, it still looked stunning.
Fast forward to September 2007, I got the internet for the first time and started joining websites
related to the PS3, the first site I joined was Afterdawn and posted on there quite regularly, I then
heard about a story involving a group of people called Team Ice who were members of a scene
site called PS3HaX, so I went to the website to check it out, I joined the website in January 2008
and became a staff member in March 2008.
I contributed a great deal to PS3HaX, invested my own money and such into competitions, I
also met some great people through it, but I stepped down as a staff member in 2014 and went
on to create my own website related to all things PlayStation.
I guess the rest is history and everything I have experienced is on this PS3History.
And a thank you to Bash for PS3History’s Header 🙂
ViperMM, we still think about you loads dude.
[Game Release]
This will cover all official games released on the PS3.
[Official Firmware Release]
This will cover all Official Firmware released on the PS3.
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
This will cover all Kernel Exploits, Webkit Exploits, Homebrew games, applications, hardware mods, Custom Firmware, basically anything that wasn’t officially put out by Sony.
[Court – Legal Proceedings – Crime]
Will cover all legal cases and lawsuits taken by Sony or against Sony in regards to the PS3.
[PS3 Model Release]
Will cover each new model released, such as Special editions.