The PS3 and PSP had the same XMB and it really felt like they were a pair and meant to be owned together. I never understood why the physical layout on the PS4 and Vita changed so dramatically and differed so wildly from each other
Simple: the XMB was designed for a different interface than the PSVita (touchscreen) and, to an extent, PS4 (touchpad). The XMB UI may have been a bit more visually pleasing than the bubble design for the Vita but it would not have worked well as a touch interface. On the other hand the current PS4 design is basically what you implied: a new design for a new generation. After all the basics of the XMB are still there but now in a more efficient, responsive, and visually impressive evolution of it.
Too answer your question in depth, Ken Kutaragi the creator of the PS1, PS2 and original PS3 left the company right after his release and sadly so did all his creativity and influence. When he stepped down from CEO/Chairman the PlayStation “Network” changed as a whole. He was the head of not only production but also the SEN which is the Network bracket for Sony gaming. Basically a new boss(es) was in town n’ everything changed 😔
@@the22game I... never said that. At all. How did you imply that? I was saying he confused "text" with "font". The PS3 used a font similar to the font used in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy, probably because Sony was involved in the movies and was promoting it.
@@itjustworks1858 Even worse, crash. Everytime i go to music section, the console crash immediately. I want the old PS3 store so bad. Infact, i am one of the last person that have the experince of old store ui before they switch to PS4 version like. The PS4 is fine but the PS3 store sucks.
God, I miss these days. I was around 13 when I got my PS3 Slim and man that was magical going from PS2 to HD graphics and proper online multiplayer. Never know you're in the good times until you're older.
I still have my 60GB PS3, that now has a 500GB Hard Drive in it. It was my console of choice and I never regretted it. But one thing people never really talk about with the PS3 is it was never fully utilised. I would love to see what the console can do pushed to the limit, but due to the Cell Architecture we may never find out.
Damn you still have that model? I got my fat ps3 in 2007 for my fourth birthday and it broke In mid 2013 from being overloaded with dust. Wish I still had it 😪
@@eupher2 yeah, I think I might get a preowned one for my 18th birthday coming up for old times sake. I already have a ps5 and PS4 so I’ll definitely get one.
@@F1aw1ess the phrase is "**couldn't** care less" not what you said. Since you are so high and mighty about it you shouldn't be here wasting your precious time right?
PS3 fanboys around 2010: Take that Xbots! Our console was used in a super computer by the Air Force! Remember when PS3 vs Xbox 360 console wars was in full swing around 10 years ago?
@@dragonfistX200 Though I'm concerned with how you can still buy and play old ps3/Xbox 360 games if patches and updates may not always be available for download. Some games like Star Wars The Force Unleashed didn't have patches, but most games do
ikr every sixaxis I had felt cheap and got worn out quickly, while every DS3 I had lasted for years, I only had one die on me likely due to a dead battery
Something about seeing one of the older models brought me back to Christmas of '06. My parents really just shelled out and got my brother and me a PS3 each, and it started a huge snowball. I ran my 1st Gen to the ground, playing it almost every day until 2010. Around maybe August, it finally got the YLOD. And within 6 months I had worked my way to a new one by getting some under the table field jobs. To this day, the PS3 is the only console I've made a point to stick by all these years. And seeing videos really showing the older updates makes me so happy. Such a fantastic console, and moreover, such a strange console. There's not gonna be another console quite as nice, yet very stupid for a long, long time. Also fuck the new store. I miss that beautiful 2.30 store so much, especially the search function that's actually stomachable.
At the time everyone complained about it but I loved it and could reliably navigate to everything so fast even newbie turning the tv on as you could remember how many times to press right and down etc. The PS5 interface is such a mess with no folders and everything moves itself around or is buried in menus
It took sony less than a year to give a 2006 console the option to have custom backgrounds. Yet people complained it took so long After more than 2 years we still don’t have the option to have custom backgrounds on the switch (a 2017 console) yet nobody complains Edit: More than 3 years and still no custom backgrounds or voice chat...
Oh, we complain. We complain all the time about the lack of a browser, Netflix, wallpapers, virtual console, Bluetooth, etc. Stuff the PS Vita had way back in like 2012. It's just that people have gotten tired of complaining and begging.
Yo don't go ripping that band-aid back open. I didn't play during its last days but fuuuuuuuuuuuck I miss hanging out and talking with strangers. The young pre-teen naive me really thought that it was the future of social interaction.
I also love how when you hovered over certain games the thumbnail would turn to a short gif, music would play, and the background would change; so AWESOME!! 👏
The closest would be if you paused the clock at 12 AM not just adjusting the brightness because even if you put it at -5 it will slightly change in a hourly basis and 12 AM is the darkest.
@@XtremeBG I still don't understand why they did away with it in the first place. They did my boy 'classic black' dirty. It was the most appealing to look at considering the white font, on top of being the same color as the console so it fits the theme.
I still use mine regularly as streaming device and blu Ray player in the bedroom on the secondary tv. It’s a great 1080p machine and will continue to be until it dies.
@@gcgaming905 - The fact that the comment got 70+ upvotes shows that people don't research a thing nowadays and just because something has a lot of upvotes, it doesn't mean it's correct.
The store update was the worst update. I know it's hard to document this, but it made everything clunky and choppy and failed a bunch with errors. Hated that store update. They also never got that browser working right. Errored out and froze all the time . Trophy synching was horrid too.
@@toddbuckmiller2481 i actually remember the ps store update and remember when i was hyped to get a nice clean version and i remember sitting there thinking wtf is this i totally agree with how bad the ps3 online store is
You know what I find sad? My Atari 2600 is going on 40 years and barring any technical problems, it will still play all the games ever released for it and do all the things it did on the day I got it. Yet in another 10-20 years or so, once support for the PS3 has been discontinued, it will be in much worse shape. Say you want to replay one of your favorite games, so you buy a PS3 and a copy of the game. Oops, the whole game isn't on the disc, you're supposed to go online and download the missing parts, but the PS3 is no longer compatible with the latest version of the PSN and even if it was, that game wouldn't be there any more. Ok, let's try another game that comes entirely on the disc. Hmm, why is it glitching? Oh right, that was fixed in a patch that could only be obtained online. OK, this game is the fully patched version. Hey, where's that other game mode that I used to enjoy playing? Oh, I forgot that was DLC that's no longer available and even if I had a backup of it, I wouldn't be able to restore it to this new console... Now game companies want to make entire game libraries download-only, and subject to the same planned obsolescence. And this is considered progress,,,
Can you please elaborate on that? Is there an official way to download and archive the patches on a computer, or are you referring to piracy and/or something fans have done? Can the same be done for DLC?
OK, thanks. To be honest, I really don't know much about the PS3. I was given one, but haven't really used it. All I have for it are FPS games and I can't get anywhere in them without a mouse and keyboard. I was going to buy a copy of Burnout Paradise until I discovered that there was no retail copy that included all the content. I don't know if the DLC for it is still available. I don't even know if it costs money to access Sony's Playstation network to be able to pay for the DLC in the first place.
@@n1nj4l1nk bruh consoles suck, The only good console was the PS2, The PS4 is just an over glorified low end PC and the exclusives are the only thing keeping it alive
The dual shock 3 also has pressure sensitive face buttons. Cross, square, circle and triangle buttons are all pressure sensitive. Dual shock 4 doesn't have this.
This video was amazing. The ps3 was and still is the best game system ever made in my opinion. It only came out in 2006 but i got extremely nostalgic when you went through the first firmware up to the latest. Long live ps3👍🏻
These consoles were so much ahead of their time...the games those could play at a quality not even played in many modern machines. The power of optimization and custom hardware. The INSANELY good graphics those could handle smoothly..unbelievable.
I still have my fat 80 gb ps3. Still play it. Kinda sucks ps4 doesnot have half the old games in ps store from ps3 era and some ps2. So im fine going back and forth. Plus i still play ps1 gameson it as well use it for my ps vita
@@hamadajsan yup. But obviously you gotta have a ps3 to go to that store. Its limited of ps3 and ps1 games but there's abunch you cannot buy on the ps4 store
@@kevinragsdale6256 Take good care of that. Its very sought-after. Mine broke, and when I complained to customer services they sent me a newer model without backwards compatibility. Wish I kept it and fixed it myself
I absolutely love the PS3, almost as much as my PS4 Pro. I’ve been collecting PS3’s and now own 3 launch day models in like new condition, and a few limited editions, too.
I don't think many people know but the sparkles on the XMB actually move with the throws of your sixaxis controller. And also that the XMB changes colour (darker-lighter) depending on the time of day.
I really miss the multimedia features as well. Used to have a server set up in my house that the PS3 could stream directly from with all of my movies ripped to it.
I haven't had much exposure to the PlayStation ecosystem, but I have to admit, I like how consistent Sony is with their XMB design. It annoys me that there are several major, drastically different versions of the Xbox 360 dashboards, each of which look like entirely separate consoles to the original blade dashboard. XMB did have changes, but at least it is still recognizably PlayStation. Even the PS4's XMB looks closer to the PS3's first firmware than the 360 or One does to the 360's first firmware
XMB on the PSP is beautiful too, specially on the PSP Go when you slide the lid it shows a clock and pressing shoulder buttons gives waves and pressing both of them at the same time will give calendar, pressing each shoulder button on calendar scrolls through months...
I dont, even though i switched to ps3 full time in 2009, my best gaming moments of all time were on the xbox360 in late 2007 and early 2008 with halo3, gears of war 1, cod4, gtaiv, aegis wing, f.e.a.r, phantasy star online etc, i ended up switching over because of the rrod, and then my new journey in early 09 began, even those times were the best in gaming for me, my mp3 music on ps3, 6 player video chats with photo sharing, uncharted 2, gtaiv etc good times:)
@@GameStationTrey I mean, after the PS4 I just dropped consoles forever. Pc's are far too good nowadays and consoles can't keep up with them anymore. I mean, the Xbox One and the PS4 were considered outdated the day they came out.
@@viniqf All these current consoles need is great games, and im not talking about franchises that are decades old, im talking about NEW games we've never seen before, and on top of that have a USER FRIENDLY interface, an interface with features that make the console feel like MY console, Sony made a big mistake stripping features with PS4 and thats why i backed out this gen, i tried xb1 but that didnt work out to well for me, it wouldnt let me play quantum break for some reason so i sold it.. Anyway, im going to wait for ps5 and xbox290 480 or whatever to come out and if theres no hope im switching to PC for good.
GameStationTrey the new xbox is apparently gonna be quite a bit more powerful than the PS5 and be cheaper than a PC that can do the same unless you build one yourself and even then that won’t be cheap
For a black XMB, you can set your colour to dark blue, then head over to the wallpaper brightness settings and yank it down low. That gets you as close as possible.
Back in the day I used to love messing with the "Other OS" feature which allows running desktop operating systems. I ran Ubuntu and other distros. YDL anyone? Unfortunately as we know there were limitations, (RAM, framebuffer rendering, PPC arch) but it was still cool running a full desktop interface on a console. Later updates (PS3 slim era) canned the feature. RIP. (PS4 never had any cool stuff like that, mods and hacks are required to run Linux.)
Wow trophy support wasn’t added till two years later after the PS3’s launch and a month after the best and greatest PS3 game of all time Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots came out
Anyone eld else really disappointed that they never developed folding at home more? I used to love the idea of my Playstation doing amazing scientific things via distributed computing
It's weird to me that you were confused why easy to implement features came more often than the more involved, harder to implement features... But I'm a software developer, so it's a bit more obvious to me than it might be to others I guess.
He didnt talk about easy features were implemented first, he just found funny how game oriented features were delayed in comparison. The easy explanation is thay they were already planned to be released in advance but lacked testing or something and gaming features were done later.
The of the biggest differences between the firmware that no one talks about is the memory consumption, during the start PS3 used 120Mb of RAM for the OS and over the first couple of years Sony got it down to 50Mb and gave developers an extra 70Mb of memory to use for games.
13:32 As far as I know, PS3 supports custom XMB themes (Not sure about animated ones though). So it would be cool to actually make this black theme available for everyone with newer versions.
so close to 5.0. they should have supported it a little longer and just gone balls to the wall with 5.0. idk what they could do to it but seriously just something off the wall lol. the ps4 as well should do something crazy for it next big .0 update.
They could have added full support for the DS4 controller. Well it works with the PS3, but only with cable (wireless mode doesnt work with 90% of the games i tried) and the playstation button doesnt work, so you still need a DS3 to exit to the xmb...
@@gabor3432 Dude, I played from 2014 till 17 with DS4 wireless on my ps3 and it always worked exactly like with cable in all the games I tried (RdR, GTA V, GTA IV, TLoU, F1 games, Pes games, Cod's, GoW games) The only annoying missing feature that I notticed is that the PS home button does not work (but this happens with or without cables)
@@ReceitaFederal2 right, it works all the time with just about every game with a cable. I prefer it over my ds3 controllers when playing on my ps3. I do wish the home button worked also. Ratchet and clank games don't work with it for some reason and neither do any Telltale game I've played on my ps3 this year.
No one talks about the PS3 being able to rip CDs to the hard drive always thought was cool. And the 360 could do that with games i was kinda hoping Sony would allow that but I guess the games where to big
The XMB was actually really good and one of the things I miss from my 80GB fat PS3 I got Christmas of 2008. Had that thing for years until I switched to Xbox live (where my friend group was.) Still miss the PS3 and regret getting rid of it. They were awesome consoles.
Good eye! That pamphlet is from the original launch PS3's marketing. Back when it had the 4 USB's, Chrome, Card readers, and PS2 Backwards Compatibility.
Ps4 went backwards by not allowing external hard drives to be read. Unlike ps3 where I could connect a hard drive full of torrents movies and watch them on the system
Dang, what a flash back! Such a shame the PS4 never supported local media storage. And I had NO idea that the PS3 had a VIDEO EDITOR and supported printers...LOL
Ryan: There is a chart on Google that will list all the first launch PS3 fats. Most had chrome faces and 4 usb ports. The next models had 2 usb ports and a brushed metal face. My burned out model was from day one. It has 4 usb ports and a chrome face. My replacement model is a K. It has 2 usb ports, brushed metal, and is not backwards compatible. They look a like but are completely different.
I miss PlayStation Home. Anyone else miss it too?
Yeah I missed it as well and MAG as well.
Me. I still miss Home and especially sodium one salt shooter
yeah it was fun. i wish we could get a reboot for next gen
kenrock56 I still have it installed in my ps3. I spent there quite a lot time because I had only one game back then.
Playing Ice Breaker for the full outfit and the trophy for your apartment
God i wish we could play online games without plus like the ps3
@Cassie Cage it still is today with frequent server crashes
I never bought a ps4 because of that
@@alphatrion100 yea, I'm thinking about getting a pc when I'm able to work
@Cesar 2 What are you talking about?
@@EmeraldDragonfly57 Exactly what I said
The PS3 and PSP had the same XMB and it really felt like they were a pair and meant to be owned together. I never understood why the physical layout on the PS4 and Vita changed so dramatically and differed so wildly from each other
Simple: the XMB was designed for a different interface than the PSVita (touchscreen) and, to an extent, PS4 (touchpad). The XMB UI may have been a bit more visually pleasing than the bubble design for the Vita but it would not have worked well as a touch interface.
On the other hand the current PS4 design is basically what you implied: a new design for a new generation. After all the basics of the XMB are still there but now in a more efficient, responsive, and visually impressive evolution of it.
PSX had that xmb before PS3 and PSP
Don't forget the PSX DVR
it might be because Mark cerny took over idk
Too answer your question in depth, Ken Kutaragi the creator of the PS1, PS2 and original PS3 left the company right after his release and sadly so did all his creativity and influence. When he stepped down from CEO/Chairman the PlayStation “Network” changed as a whole. He was the head of not only production but also the SEN which is the Network bracket for Sony gaming. Basically a new boss(es) was in town n’ everything changed 😔
Still play my PS3....then again I still play my PS2 and PS1 also.
Same
Same here
same. screw next gen
@@WatcherKoops4677 Yeah even the sega dreamcast and xbox og r amazing with lots of cool games just like the ps2
@@erickcontreras113 if I were offered a ps4, I'd reject my choice
I played my PS3 to the point where it just died.
Rest in peace.
My condolences
R.I.P.
rip dude.
How it died?
Rip
@@AishaClanClan1043 99% chance its the nec tokin capacitor
You forgot the “PlayStation 3” logo when you started a game. I still miss it.
And the startup jingle is slightly different.
me too
@@lordeilluminati I REALLY miss the old Startup Orchestra tuning melody while the first PS3 logo (Like Spider-man 3's) showed up.
I missed it so much that the first thing I did after getting a jailbreak, I modded it back in
Huhm I seem to miss the PS2 startup more than the ps3 one
I do miss the old PS3 startup sound and spider man text when you enter a game :)
Hahaha me too, for years. Now I have a extra PS3 with CF & Movian as a Media Hub and got my original logo back. 😁
You mean Spider-Man font?
Fucking lmao took me a second but I completely get what you mean by "Spider-man text". The good ol' days.
@@davidgn40 you saying he doesnt know Spider-Man?
@@the22game I... never said that. At all. How did you imply that?
I was saying he confused "text" with "font". The PS3 used a font similar to the font used in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy, probably because Sony was involved in the movies and was promoting it.
I really hate the current PlayStation store on ps3. Its so laggy and slow.
Ikr if I scroll down too fast it just doesn't load anything
@@itjustworks1858 Even worse, crash. Everytime i go to music section, the console crash immediately.
I want the old PS3 store so bad. Infact, i am one of the last person that have the experince of old store ui before they switch to PS4 version like. The PS4 is fine but the PS3 store sucks.
Just use the ps app or internet search ps store
Probably cuz Sony has moved on since PS4 came out. Idk y ppl don’t get that.
PS3 Store > PS4's
"But Sony moved on"
How about they optimized their shit first and not make us have to use other devices? And even on those, it lags.
God, I miss these days. I was around 13 when I got my PS3 Slim and man that was magical going from PS2 to HD graphics and proper online multiplayer. Never know you're in the good times until you're older.
Same 😔 PS3 was the best gaming era imo
I still have my 60GB PS3, that now has a 500GB Hard Drive in it. It was my console of choice and I never regretted it. But one thing people never really talk about with the PS3 is it was never fully utilised. I would love to see what the console can do pushed to the limit, but due to the Cell Architecture we may never find out.
Damn you still have that model? I got my fat ps3 in 2007 for my fourth birthday and it broke In mid 2013 from being overloaded with dust. Wish I still had it 😪
@@VirtualBliss888 yes I still have it, still works perfectly fine. That sucks your broke dude, that’s the model that’s now worth some money
@@eupher2 yeah, I think I might get a preowned one for my 18th birthday coming up for old times sake. I already have a ps5 and PS4 so I’ll definitely get one.
Naughty Dog wrung the maximum possible out of the PS3 with Uncharted 2/3 and the Last of Us
CELL was definitely to the max and was over 3x more powerful than Xbox 360.
I still have my lovely E01 from day 1.
Will PSstore ever be good? I search for a game on PS4 and it browses a lot of dlc before the game itself
Agreed
New Kid stfu
That’s so true, same here
Im a ps fan boi and I hate the ps store, and ps now pretty bad
@@F1aw1ess the phrase is "**couldn't** care less" not what you said. Since you are so high and mighty about it you shouldn't be here wasting your precious time right?
PS3 fanboys around 2010: Take that Xbots! Our console was used in a super computer by the Air Force!
Remember when PS3 vs Xbox 360 console wars was in full swing around 10 years ago?
Now both consoles are dirt cheap so it's easy to have both.
@@dragonfistX200 Though I'm concerned with how you can still buy and play old ps3/Xbox 360 games if patches and updates may not always be available for download. Some games like Star Wars The Force Unleashed didn't have patches, but most games do
The whole console war phenomenon was pretty gay.
@@AmauriGaming LOL
It was fun. Much has changed
13 years damn a lot has changed. I still play PS3 to this day!
Angus Walsh I try to, although it’s becoming more unlikely as I can’t stop gaming on my PS4 Pro and PC.
MrSuperVikingo tell me about it
Hell yeah! Fight Night Champion all day!
I still play Destiny 1 on ps3
Same here but only GTA 4! I'm doing my 10th storymode on it right now! 😊
I still have my two non rumble controllers, they feel like toys
I don't even use rumble even on the current gen
Right! on my PS3 controller I turned off rumble feature, found out it killed battery faster
Mine got destroyed by a game called dark souls.....
The controllers are toys? Doh!
ikr
every sixaxis I had felt cheap and got worn out quickly, while every DS3 I had lasted for years, I only had one die on me likely due to a dead battery
Something about seeing one of the older models brought me back to Christmas of '06. My parents really just shelled out and got my brother and me a PS3 each, and it started a huge snowball.
I ran my 1st Gen to the ground, playing it almost every day until 2010. Around maybe August, it finally got the YLOD. And within 6 months I had worked my way to a new one by getting some under the table field jobs.
To this day, the PS3 is the only console I've made a point to stick by all these years. And seeing videos really showing the older updates makes me so happy. Such a fantastic console, and moreover, such a strange console. There's not gonna be another console quite as nice, yet very stupid for a long, long time.
Also fuck the new store. I miss that beautiful 2.30 store so much, especially the search function that's actually stomachable.
Surprised you didn't mention 3.55 and how demanded it was by the PS3 hacked scene.
Stopped watching after 3.60...
my PS3 is running PS3ITA (dex) its fun
i would mention 3.41 too, as it was the first public exploitable firmware
I was waiting for it, i even rewind the video when it come to 5.60😂😂
I'm still playing on PS3. Mainly to go back to Sonic games because screw getting PS Now!
Sonic171000 sonic 😳😂😂
What's wrong with PS now?
I still use my SS model PS3. It's mostly a wireless PSX but I do play some PS3 games on it still like MGS4, Gran Turismo 5, Final Fantasy, etc.
i still play my ps3 a lot more than my ps4
@@JimmyJames10-k7v You'd be surprised. A few modern Sonic games are pretty good. Sonic was better in the '90s though
This feels uploaded right on time since I just hooked up my ps3 again cause I wanted to play some old games
Same here, i fired up RE5 after beating 7 on ps4
Awesome! The PS3 never gets old, well, sentimentally speaking. 😉
Im playing god of war 3, Miss the old kratos
Aufinator same
@@samuelesquivel6202 there is GoW 3: Remastered on PS4, you know that?
I loved the XMB, it was so clean and simple. I'd love to see that design again.
At the time everyone complained about it but I loved it and could reliably navigate to everything so fast even newbie turning the tv on as you could remember how many times to press right and down etc. The PS5 interface is such a mess with no folders and everything moves itself around or is buried in menus
It took sony less than a year to give a 2006 console the option to have custom backgrounds. Yet people complained it took so long
After more than 2 years we still don’t have the option to have custom backgrounds on the switch (a 2017 console) yet nobody complains
Edit: More than 3 years and still no custom backgrounds or voice chat...
That is so true
Unnecessary attempt to start up stuff.
Oh, we complain. We complain all the time about the lack of a browser, Netflix, wallpapers, virtual console, Bluetooth, etc. Stuff the PS Vita had way back in like 2012. It's just that people have gotten tired of complaining and begging.
@@timothylewis2527 Yeah, the Vita had all of that. Not games though, the main focus of a games handheld console.
The switch has dark mode
Thats good
I want ps3 xmb on ps5.
You're likely gonna end up disappointed.
I'd settle for it on Vita
I think at the very least we will probably have some sort of XMB on the PS5.
Would be cool if you could customise the UI. You could have the option to use xmb or the PS5 UI.
Omega outclasses ps4
Why no mention of PlayStation Home?. that was my whole reason for buying the system (to play on there with friends)
Yo don't go ripping that band-aid back open. I didn't play during its last days but fuuuuuuuuuuuck I miss hanging out and talking with strangers. The young pre-teen naive me really thought that it was the future of social interaction.
I remember when i learnt that i could open xbm while playing... it was amazing
I also love how when you hovered over certain games the thumbnail would turn to a short gif, music would play, and the background would change; so AWESOME!! 👏
no one:
catherine: Y - Y - YO - YO - YO!!!
Great video, as always. I loved the trip down memory lane. I remember most of the updates you mentioned.
Man, I remember that orchestral power on music back in 2007. That was so sophisticated compared to the later updates of the PS3 in 2010.
I love these timeline videos of game consoles! Please do one for every single one!
for black XMB just choose gray/white and go to brightness option turn it off to -5 and you are ready
It's just not the same bro.
@@Hyrule409 it's close enough
The closest would be if you paused the clock at 12 AM not just adjusting the brightness because even if you put it at -5 it will slightly change in a hourly basis and 12 AM is the darkest.
@@lordeilluminati I always thought that that was a neat little feature even if I really couldn't tell the difference.
@@XtremeBG I still don't understand why they did away with it in the first place. They did my boy 'classic black' dirty. It was the most appealing to look at considering the white font, on top of being the same color as the console so it fits the theme.
I still use mine regularly as streaming device and blu Ray player in the bedroom on the secondary tv. It’s a great 1080p machine and will continue to be until it dies.
It is dead.
I use mine to play gta pnline and nowdays u can find more modders that gived u cash and mod vehicles and many new mod stuff. and i dont have ps4
Stuck In Indiana same here !
I miss the days when internet wasn’t required to unlock trophy’s and view them.
It isnt
Thats needed to sync to the network
U can view without internet
@@gcgaming905 - The fact that the comment got 70+ upvotes shows that people don't research a thing nowadays and just because something has a lot of upvotes, it doesn't mean it's correct.
@@TheTruthDragonNJ09 updoots
4:04 anyone see the never gonna give you up
*RICKROLLED*
No im blind
I saw it
Lmao
@AlphaX_FTW Games I know lol
Grats on 90 likes????
At least on PS3 you can download pictures and videos, but cannot on PS4.
pro tip, get on browser and screenshot on ps4.. I have a lot of custom backgrounds
Just plug in a USB and screenshot the photo
It was wild u could download porn videos from there internet to the system
Anyone ever have the ps store freeze on you if you scroll through your download list too far?
The store update was the worst update. I know it's hard to document this, but it made everything clunky and choppy and failed a bunch with errors. Hated that store update.
They also never got that browser working right. Errored out and froze all the time . Trophy synching was horrid too.
@@toddbuckmiller2481 i actually remember the ps store update and remember when i was hyped to get a nice clean version and i remember sitting there thinking wtf is this i totally agree with how bad the ps3 online store is
indigograves yes I thought it was my hard drive.
Man, what a trip back in time all this is. I forgot all of this happened until now. Got my PS3 in 2010, PS4 in 2015.
You know what I find sad? My Atari 2600 is going on 40 years and barring any technical problems, it will still play all the games ever released for it and do all the things it did on the day I got it. Yet in another 10-20 years or so, once support for the PS3 has been discontinued, it will be in much worse shape.
Say you want to replay one of your favorite games, so you buy a PS3 and a copy of the game. Oops, the whole game isn't on the disc, you're supposed to go online and download the missing parts, but the PS3 is no longer compatible with the latest version of the PSN and even if it was, that game wouldn't be there any more. Ok, let's try another game that comes entirely on the disc. Hmm, why is it glitching? Oh right, that was fixed in a patch that could only be obtained online. OK, this game is the fully patched version. Hey, where's that other game mode that I used to enjoy playing? Oh, I forgot that was DLC that's no longer available and even if I had a backup of it, I wouldn't be able to restore it to this new console...
Now game companies want to make entire game libraries download-only, and subject to the same planned obsolescence. And this is considered progress,,,
However you can download all the updates games patches from computer and install it from USB to PS3 harddrived. Not a problem.
Can you please elaborate on that? Is there an official way to download and archive the patches on a computer, or are you referring to piracy and/or something fans have done? Can the same be done for DLC?
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Sorry I haven’t explained it properly. Yes aslong the ps3 is on custom firmware and you can do it. Yes same for DLC
OK, thanks.
To be honest, I really don't know much about the PS3. I was given one, but haven't really used it. All I have for it are FPS games and I can't get anywhere in them without a mouse and keyboard. I was going to buy a copy of Burnout Paradise until I discovered that there was no retail copy that included all the content. I don't know if the DLC for it is still available. I don't even know if it costs money to access Sony's Playstation network to be able to pay for the DLC in the first place.
Even if the PS3 dies, I can still play on my ps2
4:42 The PS3 only does everything 🤷♀️
PS3, 360, and Wii days might be the best in all of gaming.
No discussions there
*PS2 Era
No argument there that was the shit for me for my childhood.
Er... no. The gen with massive hardware failure rates being ignored while the future of controls is mocked is not the best time of gaming.
@@n1nj4l1nk bruh consoles suck, The only good console was the PS2, The PS4 is just an over glorified low end PC and the exclusives are the only thing keeping it alive
The dual shock 3 also has pressure sensitive face buttons. Cross, square, circle and triangle buttons are all pressure sensitive. Dual shock 4 doesn't have this.
Really? well I didn't know that
Kind of pointless though since 98% of the games didn't use them. At least a good amount of the PS2's library used the buttons.
Then you might infact love dualsense! (PS5 controller)
@@Fuzzypet_Playscape dualsense doesn't have pressure sensitive face buttons tho
@@draggo56 Idk about that but anyways I decided not to get PS5 bcuz i realised pc is better so i don't remember or know much related to PS5 anymore.
This video was amazing. The ps3 was and still is the best game system ever made in my opinion. It only came out in 2006 but i got extremely nostalgic when you went through the first firmware up to the latest. Long live ps3👍🏻
Andrew Wolfenstein I feel that man
Man this bring back some memories I actually remember getting my PS3 right at the 2.00 update in the late days of 2007
I still play my PS3
HE360 ok
Yeah same here games are cheap and free online
You’re a legend
I miss bieng able to play online for free as long as you have an internet connection thats all u needed
I sometimes still playing my ps3, truly love it. Really great console at the time.
6:13 “printers came first”
You've put so much hard work and research on this video. You deserve all the love you can get bro
I still play Modern Warfare 3 on my PS3 regularly... Spec Ops, survival mode
You play defiance??
@@jakejake7566 nah, didn't pay for it =/
@@lucozade8373 its free now bro give it a download 😉 tons of people enjoying it
@@jakejake7566 ah wikid! Thanks for letting me know! Going to download it later today
@@lucozade8373 hell yeah 👊 youre welcome bud
physical disc & Cartridges RULES!
These consoles were so much ahead of their time...the games those could play at a quality not even played in many modern machines. The power of optimization and custom hardware. The INSANELY good graphics those could handle smoothly..unbelievable.
The voice chainger...
That brings back memories .
my ears are still ringing to this day...
I own that same bundle (complete in box), and still buy PS1-PS3 games from the PS Store; they’re super cheap, now.
As a cat person I approve of your cat posts. also...... LONG LIVE THE PS3!!!!
"I just wanted $10"
- Mystic
2009: The Earth end in 2012
2019: Time to raid Area 51
The earth end
2042: all melt
Wait which idiot said earth end in 2012
Sarim Shabee it was all over the news where was you?
Illuminating X maybe in other countries because I never heard that on my news
lol at the sackboy plush at the beginning!
I hope that PS5 has a feature to download music, pictures, and videos
I believe you can already do that on PS4.
@@davidgn40 no you can't download it, only from the usb
@@lilpp4791 oh you meant download from USB, I thought you meant from the installed browser.
@@davidgn40 you can't download it directly from the browser like the ps3, that's sucks
@@lilpp4791 my bad
I still have my fat 80 gb ps3. Still play it. Kinda sucks ps4 doesnot have half the old games in ps store from ps3 era and some ps2. So im fine going back and forth. Plus i still play ps1 gameson it as well use it for my ps vita
Stark can you still buy & download games for PS3 from the PS store ?
@@hamadajsan yup. But obviously you gotta have a ps3 to go to that store. Its limited of ps3 and ps1 games but there's abunch you cannot buy on the ps4 store
I still play my launch 60gb backwards compatible model over my ps4
Cool! I’ve got a launch day 60GB model; it’s so awesome.
@@kevinragsdale6256 Take good care of that. Its very sought-after. Mine broke, and when I complained to customer services they sent me a newer model without backwards compatibility. Wish I kept it and fixed it myself
Mystic makes a video of PS4 / PS4 Pro updates too👍 I have a PS4 Pro and Smartv 4K I'm very anxious to get my PS5 at launch haha
I absolutely love the PS3, almost as much as my PS4 Pro. I’ve been collecting PS3’s and now own 3 launch day models in like new condition, and a few limited editions, too.
Why would you want multiple ps3's?
@@avocadoo4387 To sell them for more later on XD
Ben Dover What would you expect from someone named “Pony Boy” ?
Effeminate dudes getting emotional over nothing 😆
Prince Groove A.K.A. Your Favorite Pony Boy Nice! You’re the man.
I don't think many people know but the sparkles on the XMB actually move with the throws of your sixaxis controller. And also that the XMB changes colour (darker-lighter) depending on the time of day.
This video improved my performance and stability.
👍
holy shit i cant believe its been 10 years since the ps3 slim came out.. thats when i got my ps3
You should definitely do a video like this with the updates of Xbox 360
Xbox 360 actually just got updated
Yeah it did
The printer function was also available on the ps2, only Gran turismo 4 used it though.
I still use my Ps3 slim as a media hub. No need or desire to upgrade.
I really miss the multimedia features as well. Used to have a server set up in my house that the PS3 could stream directly from with all of my movies ripped to it.
I haven't had much exposure to the PlayStation ecosystem, but I have to admit, I like how consistent Sony is with their XMB design. It annoys me that there are several major, drastically different versions of the Xbox 360 dashboards, each of which look like entirely separate consoles to the original blade dashboard. XMB did have changes, but at least it is still recognizably PlayStation. Even the PS4's XMB looks closer to the PS3's first firmware than the 360 or One does to the 360's first firmware
I remember my mom borrowing My brothers ps3 to watch Netflix 😂
yeah right
PS3 is truly still a cutting edge console...it was the only formidable foe of xbox
@Fedce it's because their still not over the shame of losing to that little white box 😉
@Fedce lol wii (my family and I) still play our most weekends. Yeah I've seen come of the Wii homebrew videos here on TH-cam.
Lol the “only” formidable foe of xbox. Just reminding you that the wii kicked their ass and sold more. Plus it has a shit ton of incredible homebrew.
Ps3 sucked I hated that console. It felt way outdated in technology.
Fedce The Wii’s price was lower , that’s why it sold more
XMB on the PSP is beautiful too, specially on the PSP Go when you slide the lid it shows a clock and pressing shoulder buttons gives waves and pressing both of them at the same time will give calendar, pressing each shoulder button on calendar scrolls through months...
I have my ps3 in my room and use it as an all nighter device / streaming device. I’ve had it for about 10 years and it still holds up well.
I still got my ps3 connected 💪
Me too
Me three
The original PS3 is my favorite as I get to play PS1 and PS2 games as backwards compatibility
PlayStation will always be on top, I srsly regret buying the Xbox.
I dont, even though i switched to ps3 full time in 2009, my best gaming moments of all time were on the xbox360 in late 2007 and early 2008 with halo3, gears of war 1, cod4, gtaiv, aegis wing, f.e.a.r, phantasy star online etc, i ended up switching over because of the rrod, and then my new journey in early 09 began, even those times were the best in gaming for me, my mp3 music on ps3, 6 player video chats with photo sharing, uncharted 2, gtaiv etc good times:)
@Michael Kevin Millet I agree, ps4 is dogshit, the worst playstation tech to get released by Sony, i skipped this whole generation because of it
@@GameStationTrey I mean, after the PS4 I just dropped consoles forever. Pc's are far too good nowadays and consoles can't keep up with them anymore. I mean, the Xbox One and the PS4 were considered outdated the day they came out.
@@viniqf All these current consoles need is great games, and im not talking about franchises that are decades old, im talking about NEW games we've never seen before, and on top of that have a USER FRIENDLY interface, an interface with features that make the console feel like MY console, Sony made a big mistake stripping features with PS4 and thats why i backed out this gen, i tried xb1 but that didnt work out to well for me, it wouldnt let me play quantum break for some reason so i sold it..
Anyway, im going to wait for ps5 and xbox290 480 or whatever to come out and if theres no hope im switching to PC for good.
GameStationTrey the new xbox is apparently gonna be quite a bit more powerful than the PS5 and be cheaper than a PC that can do the same unless you build one yourself and even then that won’t be cheap
For a black XMB, you can set your colour to dark blue, then head over to the wallpaper brightness settings and yank it down low. That gets you as close as possible.
Mod nation racers was so fun to play. Sad when the online on the game went down. So many great tracks from players
Back in the day I used to love messing with the "Other OS" feature which allows running desktop operating systems. I ran Ubuntu and other distros. YDL anyone?
Unfortunately as we know there were limitations, (RAM, framebuffer rendering, PPC arch) but it was still cool running a full desktop interface on a console. Later updates (PS3 slim era) canned the feature. RIP.
(PS4 never had any cool stuff like that, mods and hacks are required to run Linux.)
I miss when you would load up a game and that "Playstation 3" text with the spiderman font would pop up and make that little jingle
It's like you've just discovered fire. You've woke up too late mate but yeah, good content
Miss the ps3 personally mostly played Siren Blood Curse since ps home went away
i played forbidden siren on ps2, that game was crazy
Got Siren on ps4 I like it but it’s harder than blood curse
10:26 love the cheeky Attack on titan appearance in a PS3 video. Two of my favourite things in the world.
I miss that store too :
I cry every time I try to fire up Playstation home and just stay on the loading screen.
In 2007 like every month was an update
3.55 is legend
Wow trophy support wasn’t added till two years later after the PS3’s launch and a month after the best and greatest PS3 game of all time Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots came out
Sony should reboot and sale the PS3 60 GB with retro compatibility. That was the best console ever.
I still have that 60GB model. I upgraded the hard drive to 640GB (not a typo).
Anyone eld else really disappointed that they never developed folding at home more? I used to love the idea of my Playstation doing amazing scientific things via distributed computing
I believe it's still available on PCs
It's weird to me that you were confused why easy to implement features came more often than the more involved, harder to implement features...
But I'm a software developer, so it's a bit more obvious to me than it might be to others I guess.
Not necessarily. Supporting codex is easy, yeah, but not a new feature like printing support. That requires a lot of work to implement correctly.
He didnt talk about easy features were implemented first, he just found funny how game oriented features were delayed in comparison. The easy explanation is thay they were already planned to be released in advance but lacked testing or something and gaming features were done later.
The of the biggest differences between the firmware that no one talks about is the memory consumption, during the start PS3 used 120Mb of RAM for the OS and over the first couple of years Sony got it down to 50Mb and gave developers an extra 70Mb of memory to use for games.
13:32
As far as I know, PS3 supports custom XMB themes (Not sure about animated ones though).
So it would be cool to actually make this black theme available for everyone with newer versions.
*4.85 came out and I really don’t see anything added to the PS3...*
Ps3 bo2 and fighting games bring memories
Mk9 was great
so close to 5.0. they should have supported it a little longer and just gone balls to the wall with 5.0. idk what they could do to it but seriously just something off the wall lol. the ps4 as well should do something crazy for it next big .0 update.
They could have added full support for the DS4 controller. Well it works with the PS3, but only with cable (wireless mode doesnt work with 90% of the games i tried) and the playstation button doesnt work, so you still need a DS3 to exit to the xmb...
@@gabor3432 Dude, I played from 2014 till 17 with DS4 wireless on my ps3 and it always worked exactly like with cable in all the games I tried (RdR, GTA V, GTA IV, TLoU, F1 games, Pes games, Cod's, GoW games)
The only annoying missing feature that I notticed is that the PS home button does not work (but this happens with or without cables)
@@ReceitaFederal2 right, it works all the time with just about every game with a cable. I prefer it over my ds3 controllers when playing on my ps3. I do wish the home button worked also. Ratchet and clank games don't work with it for some reason and neither do any Telltale game I've played on my ps3 this year.
No one talks about the PS3 being able to rip CDs to the hard drive always thought was cool. And the 360 could do that with games i was kinda hoping Sony would allow that but I guess the games where to big
They could've done a update to let you turn hdcp off like ps4 so people can easily record games.
This is an amazing video and a good archive for the updates. Please make one for the PSP :)
The XMB was actually really good and one of the things I miss from my 80GB fat PS3 I got Christmas of 2008. Had that thing for years until I switched to Xbox live (where my friend group was.) Still miss the PS3 and regret getting rid of it. They were awesome consoles.
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I GOT RICKROLLED AT THE TIME 404
At 1:39 you see that model has the 4 usb ports. Unlike the model you have has only 2 usb ports.
Good eye! That pamphlet is from the original launch PS3's marketing. Back when it had the 4 USB's, Chrome, Card readers, and PS2 Backwards Compatibility.
@@MysticRyan I know someone who could fix mine. But he doesn't have a APU. So mine is just a shiny black PS3 trophy.
@@MysticRyan I remember playing MG3 Subsistence online via my launch ps3. God I wish I still had it
Ps4 went backwards by not allowing external hard drives to be read. Unlike ps3 where I could connect a hard drive full of torrents movies and watch them on the system
Dang, what a flash back! Such a shame the PS4 never supported local media storage. And I had NO idea that the PS3 had a VIDEO EDITOR and supported printers...LOL
Ryan: There is a chart on Google that will list all the first launch PS3 fats. Most had chrome faces and 4 usb ports. The next models had 2 usb ports and a brushed metal face. My burned out model was from day one. It has 4 usb ports and a chrome face. My replacement model is a K. It has 2 usb ports, brushed metal, and is not backwards compatible. They look a like but are completely different.