

PS Now Open Beta on the PS3 was released in North America on September 18, 2014, and will be released in Europe by 2015, with the United Kingdom to get it first. Announced during Sony's Keynote address in the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show, it launched as a closed beta in January 2014, and was later started as an open beta on July 31, 2014, on the PlayStation 4. PlayStation Now is a video gaming streaming service similar to Netflix where players can stream video games from a PlayStation 3, PS4, and other Sony consoles, including Smartphones and Tablets. In, couple of games such as Sonic the Hedgehog (1991), Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Sonic & Knuckles have been delisted from the service. Available content includes full games, add-on content, playable demos, themes along with games and movie trailers.

This Store offers a range of downloadable content both for purchase and available free of charge. The PlayStation Store is an online virtual market available to users of Sony's PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Portable, and PlayStation Vita game consoles via the PlayStation Network. The PS3 is also forward compatible with the DualShock 4 either via a wired micro-USB cable or wireless Bluetooth connection.

In 2007, the DualShock 3 was announced which had the same capabilities of the Sixaxis, but with the addition of vibration functionality. Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed ReviewĪt launch, PS3 consoles were bundled with the then-standard Sixaxis controllers which based off of the DualShock 2 used for the PS2 but were wireless, lacked vibration capabilities and had an accelerometer detect motion in three directional and three rotational axes (hence the name "Sixaxis").
