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On March 1, 2010 (UTC), many of the original "fat" PlayStation 3 models worldwide were experiencing errors related to their internal system clock. The error had many symptoms. Initially, the main problem seemed to be the inability to connect to the PlayStation Network. However, the root cause of the problem was unrelated to the PlayStation Network, since even users who had never been online also had problems playing installed offline games (which queried the system timer as part of startup) and using system themes. At the same time many users noted that the console's clock had gone back to December 31, 1999. The event was nicknamed the ApocalyPS3, a play on the word apocalypse and PS3, the abbreviation for the PlayStation 3 console.

Question: What part of the original model PS3s starting causing problems in March of 2010?
Answer: internal system clock

Question: What essential network were some users unable to connect to because of the error?
Answer: PlayStation Network

Question: What erroneous date did some users start seeing on their consoles?
Answer: December 31, 1999

Question: What humorous nickname was given to the situation with the console system clock errors?
Answer: ApocalyPS3

Question: The name "ApocalyPS3" combines "PS3" with what other word?
Answer: apocalypse
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Sony confirmed that there was an error and stated that they were narrowing down the issue and were continuing to work to restore service. By March 2 (UTC), 2010, owners of original PS3 models could connect to PSN successfully and the clock no longer showed December 31, 1999. Sony stated that the affected models incorrectly identified 2010 as a leap year, because of a bug in the BCD method of storing the date. However, for some users, the hardware's operating system clock (mainly updated from the internet and not associated with the internal clock) needed to be updated manually or by re-syncing it via the internet.

Question: By what date did Sony correct the issue with the system clock?
Answer: March 2 (UTC), 2010

Question: What were the broken models mistakenly classifying 2010 as?
Answer: a leap year

Question: What storage system for dates led to the system clock error?
Answer: BCD

Question: What clock unrelated to the error in the PS3 had to be updated in some cases in order to fix the bug?
Answer: operating system clock
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PlayStation Portable can connect with PlayStation 3 in many ways, including in-game connectivity. For example, Formula One Championship Edition, a racing game, was shown at E3 2006 using a PSP as a real-time rear-view mirror. In addition, users are able to download original PlayStation format games from the PlayStation Store, transfer and play them on PSP as well as PS3 itself. It is also possible to use the Remote Play feature to play these and some PlayStation Network games, remotely on PSP over a network or internet connection.

Question: What PS3 game can integrate a PlayStation Portable to use as a rear-view mirror?
Answer: Formula One Championship Edition

Question: What kind of game is Formula One Championship Edition?
Answer: racing

Question: If users want to download original PlayStation games, where do they go online?
Answer: PlayStation Store

Question: Games in plain PlayStation format can be played both on the PS3 console and what other device?
Answer: PSP

Question: What's the name of the feature that would let you play a game on your PSP without having it with you?
Answer: Remote Play
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PlayStation Network is the unified online multiplayer gaming and digital media delivery service provided by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable, announced during the 2006 PlayStation Business Briefing meeting in Tokyo. The service is always connected, free, and includes multiplayer support. The network enables online gaming, the PlayStation Store, PlayStation Home and other services. PlayStation Network uses real currency and PlayStation Network Cards as seen with the PlayStation Store and PlayStation Home.

Question: In what city did Sony hold their 2006 PlayStation Business Briefing?
Answer: Tokyo

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
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PlayStation Plus (commonly abbreviated PS+ and occasionally referred to as PSN Plus) is a premium PlayStation Network subscription service that was officially unveiled at E3 2010 by Jack Tretton, President and CEO of SCEA. Rumors of such service had been in speculation since Kaz Hirai's announcement at TGS 2009 of a possible paid service for PSN but with the current PSN service still available. Launched alongside PS3 firmware 3.40 and PSP firmware 6.30 on June 29, 2010, the paid-for subscription service provides users with enhanced services on the PlayStation Network, on top of the current PSN service which is still available with all of its features. These enhancements include the ability to have demos, game and system software updates download automatically to PlayStation 3. Subscribers also get early or exclusive access to some betas, game demos, premium downloadable content and other PlayStation Store items. North American users also get a free subscription to Qore. Users may choose to purchase either a one-year or a three-month subscription to PlayStation Plus.

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
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The PlayStation Store is an online virtual market available to users of Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) and PlayStation Portable (PSP) game consoles via the PlayStation Network. The Store offers a range of downloadable content both for purchase and available free of charge. Available content includes full games, add-on content, playable demos, themes and game and movie trailers. The service is accessible through an icon on the XMB on PS3 and PSP. The PS3 store can also be accessed on PSP via a Remote Play connection to PS3. The PSP store is also available via the PC application, Media Go. As of September 24, 2009, there have been over 600 million downloads from the PlayStation Store worldwide.

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
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What's New was announced at Gamescom 2009 and was released on September 1, 2009, with PlayStation 3 system software 3.0. The feature was to replace the existing [Information Board], which displayed news from the PlayStation website associated with the user's region. The concept was developed further into a major PlayStation Network feature, which interacts with the [Status Indicator] to display a ticker of all content, excluding recently played content (currently in North America and Japan only).

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
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The system displays the What's New screen by default instead of the [Games] menu (or [Video] menu, if a movie was inserted) when starting up. What's New has four sections: "Our Pick", "Recently Played", latest information and new content available in PlayStation Store. There are four kinds of content the What's New screen displays and links to, on the sections. "Recently Played" displays the user's recently played games and online services only, whereas, the other sections can contain website links, links to play videos and access to selected sections of the PlayStation Store.

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
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PlayStation Home is a virtual 3D social networking service for the PlayStation Network. Home allows users to create a custom avatar, which can be groomed realistically. Users can edit and decorate their personal apartments, avatars or club houses with free, premium or won content. Users can shop for new items or win prizes from PS3 games, or Home activities. Users interact and connect with friends and customise content in a virtual world. Home also acts as a meeting place for users that want to play multiplayer games with others.

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
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Life with PlayStation, released on September 18, 2008 to succeed Folding@home, was retired November 6, 2012. Life with PlayStation used virtual globe data to display news and information by city. Along with Folding@home functionality, the application provided access to three other information "channels", the first being the Live Channel offering news headlines and weather which were provided by Google News, The Weather Channel, the University of Wisconsin–Madison Space Science and Engineering Center, among other sources. The second channel was the World Heritage channel which offered historical information about historical sites. The third channel was the United Village channel. United Village was designed to share information about communities and cultures worldwide. An update allowed video and photo viewing in the application. The fourth channel was the USA exclusive PlayStation Network Game Trailers Channel for direct streaming of game trailers.

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
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On April 20, 2011, Sony shut down the PlayStation Network and Qriocity for a prolonged interval, revealing on April 23 that this was due to "an external intrusion on our system". Sony later revealed that the personal information of 77 million users might have been taken, including: names; addresses; countries; email addresses; birthdates; PSN/Qriocity logins, passwords and handles/PSN online IDs. They also stated that it was possible that users' profile data, including purchase history and billing address, and PlayStation Network/Qriocity password security answers may have been obtained. There was no evidence that any credit card data had been taken, but the possibility could not be ruled out, and Sony advised customers that their credit card data may have been obtained. Additionally, the credit card numbers were encrypted and Sony never collected the three digit CVC or CSC number from the back of the credit cards which is required for authenticating some transactions. In response to the incident, Sony announced a "Welcome Back" program, 30 days free membership of PlayStation Plus for all PSN members, two free downloadable PS3 games, and a free one-year enrollment in an identity theft protection program.

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
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Although its PlayStation predecessors had been very dominant against the competition and were hugely profitable for Sony, PlayStation 3 had an inauspicious start, and Sony chairman and CEO Sir Howard Stringer initially could not convince investors of a turnaround in its fortunes. The PS3 lacked the unique gameplay of the more affordable Wii which became that generation's most successful console in terms of units sold. Furthermore, PS3 had to compete directly with Xbox 360 which had a market head start, and as a result the platform no longer had exclusive titles that the PS2 enjoyed such as the Grand Theft Auto and Final Fantasy series (regarding cross-platform games, Xbox 360 versions were generally considered superior in 2006, although by 2008 the PS3 versions had reached parity or surpassed), and it took longer than expected for PS3 to enjoy strong sales and close the gap with Xbox 360. Sony also continued to lose money on each PS3 sold through 2010, although the redesigned "slim" PS3 has cut these losses since then.

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
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PlayStation 3's initial production cost is estimated by iSuppli to have been US$805.85 for the 20 GB model and US$840.35 for the 60 GB model. However, they were priced at US$499 and US$599 respectively, meaning that units may have been sold at an estimated loss of $306 or $241 depending on model, if the cost estimates were correct, and thus may have contributed to Sony's games division posting an operating loss of ¥232.3 billion (US$1.97 billion) in the fiscal year ending March 2007. In April 2007, soon after these results were published, Ken Kutaragi, President of Sony Computer Entertainment, announced plans to retire. Various news agencies, including The Times and The Wall Street Journal reported that this was due to poor sales, while SCEI maintains that Kutaragi had been planning his retirement for six months prior to the announcement.

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
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In January 2008, Kaz Hirai, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, suggested that the console may start making a profit by early 2009, stating that, "the next fiscal year starts in April and if we can try to achieve that in the next fiscal year that would be a great thing" and that "[profitability] is not a definite commitment, but that is what I would like to try to shoot for". However, market analysts Nikko Citigroup have predicted that PlayStation 3 could be profitable by August 2008. In a July 2008 interview, Hirai stated that his objective is for PlayStation 3 to sell 150 million units by its ninth year, surpassing PlayStation 2's sales of 140 million in its nine years on the market. In January 2009 Sony announced that their gaming division was profitable in Q3 2008.

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
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Since the system's launch, production costs have been reduced significantly as a result of phasing out the Emotion Engine chip and falling hardware costs. The cost of manufacturing Cell microprocessors has fallen dramatically as a result of moving to the 65 nm production process, and Blu-ray Disc diodes have become cheaper to manufacture. As of January 2008, each unit cost around $400 to manufacture; by August 2009, Sony had reduced costs by a total of 70%, meaning it only costs Sony around $240 per unit.

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%
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Critical and commercial reception to PS3 improved over time, after a series of price revisions, Blu-ray's victory over HD DVD, and the release of several well received titles. Ars Technica's original launch review gave PS3 only a 6/10, but second review of the console in June 2008 rated it a 9/10. In September 2009, IGN named PlayStation 3 the 15th best gaming console of all time, behind both of its competitors: Wii (10th) and Xbox 360 (6th). However, PS3 has won IGN's "Console Showdown"—based on which console offers the best selection of games released during each year—in three of the four years since it began (2008, 2009 and 2011, with Xbox winning in 2010). IGN judged PlayStation 3 to have the best game line-up of 2008, based on their review scores in comparison to those of Wii and Xbox 360. In a comparison piece by PC mag's Will Greenwald in June 2012, PS3 was selected as an overall better console compared to Xbox 360. Pocket-lint said of the console "The PS3 has always been a brilliant games console," and that "For now, this is just about the best media device for the money."

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
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PS3 was given the number-eight spot on PC World magazine's list of "The Top 21 Tech Screwups of 2006", where it was criticized for being "Late, Expensive and Incompatible". GamesRadar ranked PS3 as the top item in a feature on game-related PR disasters, asking how Sony managed to "take one of the most anticipated game systems of all time and — within the space of a year — turn it into a hate object reviled by the entire internet", but added that despite its problems the system has "untapped potential". Business Week summed up the general opinion by stating that it was "more impressed with what [the PlayStation 3] could do than with what it currently does".

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
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Developers also found the machine difficult to program for. In 2007, Gabe Newell of Valve said "The PS3 is a total disaster on so many levels, I think it's really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted". He continued "I'd say, even at this late date, they should just cancel it and do a do over. Just say, 'This was a horrible disaster and we're sorry and we're going to stop selling this and stop trying to convince people to develop for it'". Doug Lombardi VP of Marketing for Valve has since stated that they are interested in developing for the console and are looking to hire talented PS3 programmers for future projects. He later restated Valve's position, "Until we have the ability to get a PS3 team together, until we find the people who want to come to Valve or who are at Valve who want to work on that, I don't really see us moving to that platform". At Sony's E3 2010 press conference, Newell made a live appearance to recant his previous statements, citing Sony's move to make the system more developer friendly, and to announce that Valve would be developing Portal 2 for the system. He also claimed that the inclusion of Steamworks (Valve's system to automatically update their software independently) would help to make the PS3 version of Portal 2 the best console version on the market.

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