How have the different PS3 models changed over time?
(back to top) The 20 GB and 60 GB (North American and European) These were the original version(s) of the PLAYSTATION®3. The North American consoles (20 GB and 60 GB) offered twice as many USB ports, an additional flash card reader, Super Audio CD (SACD) support, and superior PS2 backwards compatibility over the current production models, but came with significantly less hard drive space than future version of the PS3. In Europe the 20 GB was never launched, and the 60 GB version used software to emulate the PS2’s emotion engine instead of using the actual emotion engine hardware, and as a result the level of PS2/PS1 backwards compatibility was reduced. The 20 GB model lacks the internal Wi-Fi and flash card reader of the 60 GB. It also features black trim instead of the 60 GB’s chrome trim. The 80 GB (North American) In August 2007, an 80 GB hard drive model was added to the PLAYSTATION®3 that was 20 GB larger than the previous biggest HDD. At the same time the hardware based backward
