23rd June 2013, 12:33 PM
A whole lot of systems produced around the same time had capacitor issues in a large number of their lines. I'm very surprised Nintendo escaped unscathed by that issue, but I think they were one of the few that weren't using capacitors from that particular manufacturer.
As for the PS3, the very first model, the one with full PS2 support, had 3 memory card slots. These weren't for the PS2/PS1 memory cards mind you (as you say, that required a special addon, which I actually have). They were for "Compact Flash", SD Cards, and Sony's own Memory Sticks. Yep, they had slots for all 3 major kinds of memory at the time (since then, memory sticks have died a quiet death, not helped by Sony inventing yet ANOTHER proprietary format for the Vita).
As for the PS3, the very first model, the one with full PS2 support, had 3 memory card slots. These weren't for the PS2/PS1 memory cards mind you (as you say, that required a special addon, which I actually have). They were for "Compact Flash", SD Cards, and Sony's own Memory Sticks. Yep, they had slots for all 3 major kinds of memory at the time (since then, memory sticks have died a quiet death, not helped by Sony inventing yet ANOTHER proprietary format for the Vita).
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