Question: Does PlayStation Network use artificial or real currency for purchases?
Answer: real

Question: Along with being free and providing constant connectivity, what other feature does PS Network offer users?
Answer: multiplayer support

Question: PlayStation Network is only available for PS3 and what other device?
Answer: PlayStation Portable

Question: What's the name of Sony's exclusive PlayStation Network subscription service?
Answer: PlayStation Plus

Question: How is PlayStation Plus often abbreviated?
Answer: PS+

Question: Who was the President and CEO of SCEA in the year 2010?
Answer: Jack Tretton

Question: On what date did the PlayStation Plus service officially launch?
Answer: June 29, 2010

Question: Duration options for subscription to PS+ are either three months or what period of time?
Answer: one-year

Question: Where can you buy downloadable content for the PSP and PS3?
Answer: The PlayStation Store

Question: What do you click on in the PS3 interface to get to the PlayStation Store?
Answer: an icon

Question: What connection would you go through to go to the PS3 store from a PSP?
Answer: Remote Play

Question: How many unique downloads had there been from the PlayStation Store by late 2009?
Answer: over 600 million

Question: From a PC, what application can you use to visit the PlayStation Store?
Answer: Media Go

Question: What new feature for PS3 was released in September of 2009?
Answer: What's New

Question: At what event did Sony announce What's New?
Answer: Gamescom

Question: What did What's New replace?
Answer: Information Board

Question: What type of information is disseminated through What's New?
Answer: news

Question: What's geographical area does What's New tailor information to for each user?
Answer: region

Question: How many  different sections does What's New have?
Answer: four

Question: What section of What's New would a user visit to find the games they've played lately?
Answer: "Recently Played"

Question: Before What's New existed, what default screen would show when a user put a movie in their PS3?
Answer: Video

Question: What section of What's New can't show links to websites?
Answer: "Recently Played"

Question: Other than the Video default screen for movies, what menu would the PS3 default to before What's New?
Answer: Games

Question: What does Sony call their social network?
Answer: PlayStation Home

Question: What is the customizable representation of a user in PS Home called?
Answer: avatar

Question: Home has free, won, and what third type of content?
Answer: premium

Question: Users employ the content to decorate club houses, their avatars, or what virtual dwelling space?
Answer: apartments

Question: What type of games can users find participants for in Home?
Answer: multiplayer

Question: Life was able to personalize information for users by what location division?
Answer: city

Question: On what date was Life with PlayStation shut down?
Answer: November 6, 2012

Question: What's was Life's channel that delivered information about history topics?
Answer: World Heritage

Question: For weather updates from The Weather Channel, which of Life's channels would you have visited?
Answer: Live Channel

Question: What was the date Sony shut down the PS Network because of a security breach?
Answer: April 20, 2011

Question: How many users did Sony say might have been affected by the intrusion?
Answer: 77 million

Question: What did Sony call the special offer they handed out to respond to the breach?
Answer: "Welcome Back"

Question: How many free days of PlayStation Plus were included in the offer?
Answer: 30

Question: How many free game downloads were included in the "Welcome Back" program?
Answer: two

Question: What was PlayStation 3's toughest competitor in the video game market?
Answer: Wii

Question: What did Wii offer that PS3 couldn't compete with?
Answer: unique gameplay

Question: In 2006, did most people prefer the Xbox 360 or PS3 versions of cross-platform games?
Answer: Xbox 360 versions

Question: Until what year was Sony seeing a loss on each PlayStation 3 console it sold?
Answer: 2010

Question: Which cost less in stores: PS3 or Wii?
Answer: Wii

Question: How much did it cost to make one 20 GB PS3?
Answer: US$805.85

Question: In contrast to the production cost, what was the retail price for a 20 GB PlayStation 3?
Answer: US$499

Question: Assuming iSuppli got the numbers right, how much of a loss did Sony take for every 20 GB PS3 sold in the U.S.?
Answer: $306

Question: What was the name of Sony's President who announced his retirement amid rumors in April 2007?
Answer: Ken Kutaragi

Question: In U.S. dollars, how much was the enormous loss Sony reported the month before Kutaragi's retirement announcement?
Answer: US$1.97 billion

Question: Who was Sony's CEO at the start of 2008?
Answer: Kaz Hirai

Question: When did Hirai think the PS3 might start making the company some money?
Answer: early 2009

Question: What market analyst firm said Sony could make the PlayStation 3 profitable by August 2008?
Answer: Nikko Citigroup

Question: How many PS3 did Hirai set a public goal to sell by the time the product was nine?
Answer: 150 million

Question: What other Sony gaming console was Hirai setting his sales goal to beat?
Answer: PlayStation 2

Question: Along with a drop in the cost of hardware, PS3 has gotten cheaper to make because what chip was phased out?
Answer: Emotion Engine chip

Question: What's the name of the microprocessor produced by the 65 nm process?
Answer: Cell

Question: What specific component of Blu-Ray disc have also gotten less expensive to make?
Answer: diodes

Question: As of Summer 2009, what was the cost to Sony to make a PS3?
Answer: $240

Question: The August 2009 cost is a result of what percentage decrease in production cost?
Answer: 70%

Question: What rating did Ars Technica initially give PlayStation 3?
Answer: 6/10

Question: What PS3 competitor won IGN's "Console Showdown" in 2010?
Answer: Xbox

Question: What PC Mag. staffer picked PS3 over Xbox in June, 2012? 
Answer: Will Greenwald

Question: Which publication called the PlayStation 3 "a brilliant games console"?
Answer: Pocket-lint

Question: Where did IGN place the PS3 on their 2009 list of the best video game consoles ever?
Answer: 15th

Question: What list by PC World ranked PlayStation eighth, in a bad way?
Answer: "The Top 21 Tech Screwups of 2006"

Question: What gaming website called PS3 "a hate object reviled by the entire internet"?
Answer: GamesRadar

Question: What quote sums up PC World's 2006 assessment of PS3?
Answer: "Late, Expensive and Incompatible"

Question: How long did GamesRadar say it took Sony to turn the Internet against the PlayStation 3?
Answer: a year

Question: In what year did Gabe Newell call the PS3 "a total disaster"?
Answer: 2007

Question: Who is Valve's VP of Marketing who says they want to hire programmers for a PS3 team?
Answer: Doug Lombardi

Question: What year did Newell show up at Sony's EC3 press conference to take back what he said about PS3?
Answer: 2010

Question: What game did Valve develop for the PlayStation 3 console?
Answer: Portal 2

Question: What's the name of Valve's software update system?
Answer: Steamworks

Question: What group does Bobby Kotick think is being discouraged from working on the PS3?
Answer: developers

Question: What does "ROIC" stand for?
Answer: return on invested capital

Question: What company is Kotick the CEO of?
Answer: Activision Blizzard

Question: What newspaper reported Kotick's concerns and his threat to stop supporting the PlayStation platform?
Answer: The Times

Question: What game development company completely disagreed with Kotick's statements in The Times interview?
Answer: Bioware

Question: What score did CNET give the PS3 out of ten?
Answer: 8.8

Question: What PlayStation 3 feature did Home Theater Magazine most like about PS3?
Answer: Blu-ray playback