Original PlayStation 3 logo (2006 - 2009) Revised PlayStation 3 logo (2009 - 2017)
Developer
Sony Computer Entertainment
OS family
Unix (BSD)[1]
Working state
Current
Source model
Closed source
Initial release
1.00 / 17 November 2006; 17 years ago (2006-11-17)
Latest release
4.91[2] / 27 February 2024; 2 months ago (2024-02-27)
Available in
Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, English (United Kingdom), English (United States), Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish[3]
Update method
Direct Download Download to USB Game Disc
Platforms
PlayStation 3
Default user interface
XrossMediaBar
Preceded by
PlayStation 2
Succeeded by
PlayStation 4 (system software)
Official website
US
EU
Japan
The PlayStation 3 system software is the updatable firmware and operating system of the PlayStation 3. The base operating system used by Sony for the PlayStation 3 is a fork of both FreeBSD and NetBSD known internally as CellOS or GameOS.[4][1] It uses XrossMediaBar as its graphical shell.
The process of updating is almost identical to that of the PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, and PlayStation 4. The software may be updated by downloading the update directly on the PlayStation 3, downloading it from the user's local Official PlayStation website to a PC and using a USB storage device to transfer it to the PlayStation 3, or installing the update from game discs containing update data.
The initial slim PS3s SKU shipped with a unique firmware with new features, also seen in software 3.00.[5]
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