Games

According to Game Rankings, the top five PS3 games as rated by the English media companies are Grand Theft Auto IV, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, LittleBigPlanet, God of War 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

Compared to the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 marks the spread of online gambling completely free, and the questioning of physical media with the influx of downloadable games and content. This generation also has more difficulty to achieve backward compatibility with games the previous model, it is even abandoned with the latest models. Sony ended the systematic zoning of games: a Japanese PS3 or North America can run on a European PlayStation 3, and vice versa.

In 2008, Sony has launched the Platinum range of games (The Best Japan, Greatest Hits in the U.S.) on PS3, which includes reprints of popular games at budget prices a few months after their initial release (less than 30 € for Europe).

Online game

Many titles are modes of online gaming and networking features. Resistance: Fall of Man has been particularly appreciated for the depth of its network mode [57] experiment in which 40 players can participate simultaneously. With MotorStorm, he was one of the most popular on the PlayStation Network at launch of the console. Some titles, like war game Warhawk, are only playable online and offers no single player mode. The network connectivity also opens new perspectives in the development and sharing of content. In this regard, the game LittleBigPlanet is one of the most promising.

Download Games

In November 2008, the PlayStation Store features over 75 original titles and 250 "classic PSone" to download (all regions). The service can include independent developers to distribute their games without having to go through the traditional distribution channel. Sony has announced plans to emphasize quality over quantity.

Original games

The service provides small productions consist of puzzle games like echochrome and Lemmings of shoot 'em up as Riff: Everyday Shooter or Super Stardust HD, strategy games like PixelJunk Monsters, skill games based on recognition of movement the Sixaxis controller or the PlayStation Eye camera or more atypical profile games like flOw, Flower or LocoRoco Cocoreccho!. Some titles are echoes Catalogue PSP (half-suites, simultaneous outputs, adjustments in one direction or the other).

The most ambitious production are also offered as GT5 Prologue, Ratchet & Clank: Quest for Booty, Siren: Blood Curse, Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection Online, Warhawk or WipEout HD.

Classics

In Europe, the first editions of PlayStation (PSone) to download began in June 2007. They are both playable on the PS3 and PSP [note 5]. Unlike the PSone games on CD-ROM, these downloadable games are not zoned. The catalog includes titles like Crash Bandicoot, Final Fantasy VII, MediEvil, Rayman, Silent Hill, Tomb Raider and wipeout. In Japan, over three hundred games have been republished.

Some of the arcade classic, or old game consoles like the PC Engine, are also available. They are mostly from the catalog of Midway Games, Williams Electronics Games Atari and Namco (eg. Championship Sprint, Joust, Mortal Kombat II, Q * Bert). True to the originals, they implement network functionality (online gaming and / or online ranking).