i still use my ps3 all the time, graphics are great, physics exist, online still active, online still free, my digital music collection i still listen too, my digital movie collection i still watch and its in high definition, built in blueray player for more games and future movie releases, my digital photos and trophy collecting, i can go on and on, ps3 is still going strong and was wayyyy ahead of its time, also, its also gorgeous on a crt tv.
So many amazing games that're dirt cheap. Best get to most of the ones you want as soon as you can, because they'll never be cheaper than they are right now.
Without any doubt the PS3 is my favorite console of all time, even I still buy and play games on it to this days. Aside of have a giant catalog of games very rich in "variety" in third and FIRST-party games (something that Sony abandoned complety nowdays), the console itself had so many features that no console could beat, I mean what other consoles had the functions to: -Create and save music playlist. -Burn CD music and convert it to a mp3 file digitally without the need of a PC. -Import music to a game and make your own custom soundtrack on it (very few games did that). -Download directly to the console or a USB device music, videos and images by the console's web browser. -Be able to use a printer on it. -Be able to install or use other operative systems on it like Linux (but sadly this option was removed).
Hello. I never owned ps3. After seeing one of your videos about ps3 I ordered one for myself. Today I am going to get it from delivery. Cant remember the last time when I was exited that much. Thank you so much for you videos!!
Watch when you get a ps4. I thought ps3 was great but ps4 has ps5 like graphics and an INSANE library. Ok back to hades/dead cells/hollowknight/risk of rain. so goooooood lol😂
I blinked and the 2010's disappeared, so this console is still only ten years old for me. This is the console I spent hours curating my music, movie, and wallpaper collection as much as playing games. It was priming me for caving to buy a PC. Wow, I haven't used that store in over ten years, but it feels like just yesterday I would wake up and immediately hop onto my PS3 to hunt for PSN deals. Sometimes I open the Steam store and I feel like something's wrong but I can't figure out what. I just now realized from this video, but it feels wrong because everything isn't in columns of three and taking five-to-nine seconds to load the thumbnails.
I picked up the PS3 for the first time just a few months ago, it surprises me a lot how its community is still very active, Plants vs Zombie: Garden Warfare and Minecraft still have several players playing them. Not to mention that Netflix, Amazon Prime and TH-cam still work on it, which is very useful for my old TV that isn't a Smart TV.
PlayStation 3 is my favorite console from Sony. They had some heat.. Infamous, Killzone 2, Uncharted, Last of Us, Little Big Planet, Demon Souls, and the online play was Free!!!
As a self entitled "PS3 Connoisseur" i can say one of the coolest things about jailbreaking a PS3 is PS2 Backwards Compatibility and system mods, fan/temperature control and monitoring, even full UI remaster, in game FPS/temperate, GPU overclocking, emulators, PS2 backwards compatibility is a little tricky, Sony developed a PS2 emulator to run the PS2 Classics games bought on the PS Store, with a Jailbreak you can freely get any PS2 ISO to run in this emulator, with varying results, some titles are perfectly playable while others won't boot, but compability is very high (between 80 and 83%) and some games can get fixed with config files.
Imho, the PS3 will always be awesome. There are so, so many awesome games on the PS3. Enough that I could play the console exclusively for the rest of my life if I had unlimited access to it's game library...
The PlayStation 3 is definitely top 3! I’ve owned 3 (Original and 2 slims) and I’m still enjoying it in 2024. I do miss the Earth application that was in real time! You could go to different locations around the world for news, but they took it away in like 2011 or 12. Long live PS3!
If you're playing PS3 in 2024 you need to change the thermal paste, switch out the HDD for a SSD and install CFW. With CFW you can install all your game discs on the SSD. The console runs silently and load times are quicker. Another upgrade is to use a mClassic to give a sharper image with less aliasing. You can also use a mClassic daisychained with a 4K Gamer Pro to get the games looking nice on a 4K display.
You can never talk 2 much about how good the PS3 was and still is. Its pure fun 2 play. Love the end of your video. I hope it will remain for future generations aswell ❤️
Loved the video. Still happily playing on PS3 - and looking forward to buying more games for it to celebrate 10 years on December 17th. Easily one of the greatest consoles ever made.
Your videos are magical. I feel like im going back to those days with a portal 😢 I've been following you since the beginning of this year and no regrets! Love your videos and the music u use in the background ❤
Just spent the last 2 or 3 days playing Black Flag and Black Ops II on my PS3. I have a PS5, Switch, Xbox One.. and I still play games as old as 15/20/25 years all the time.
I go back to games from the 1980s regularly still. ...and heck, a lot of the modern games I play look and play like they're from the 90s. I wish companies like Capcom would make throwback RE titles. I think Konami should still be making 2D Castlevania games. There's a market for it and the games cost a fraction of the time & money to put together when compared to modern titles. One failed project can put a well known developer out of business in 2024, solely because of production costs. This is also why we see very few AAA titles that stand out from the crowd. They have to stick with what has proven to work/sell. Konami/Capcom could put a group of 10 talented ppl together & they could churn out a great RE/Castlevania game every 6 months. They'd sell great at $9.99 digitally and some of 'em would even do well at $30 for physical copies. The existence of brands like Limited Run games proves there's a market for this.
I still have my super slim PS3 and for years barely used it for games, but in this past year have been buying them up, up to 15 games now, the only problem is time to play them because I work a lot, but love this system and proud to say I bought it brand new and still have it hooked up.
And in the ps3 and x360 generation, developers/publishers like EA, Activision, Ubisoft, Konami and others got a lot of appreciation from gamers, unlike in the current generation
1. Get a Slim PS3 (CECH-20xx or CECH-21xx) 2. Upgrade the internal storage and install CFW (those above were the last models to fully support it) 3. Install Webman mod, activate your console & install PKGi. 4. Enjoy your PS1, PS2, PS3 and PSP games. Compatibility for PS2 games is around 77~81% + there are HD remasters like the Ratchet or Sly HD Trilogies, while for PSP it's roughly ~35%. PS1 compatibility using the PS1 Classics emulator is pretty much flawless, 99% of the games will be perfect. You can also follow similar steps for an Xbox 360 and take advantage of its backwards compatibility. Owning a RGH 360 and CFW PS3 will let you play a lot of PS2/Xbox games thanks to backwards compatibility. I would say they're easily the best consoles to own right now that are super easy to setup on a modern TV and install games if you're into older games.
Don't recommend CECH-20xx slims (launch edition slims from 2009). These things produce high amounts of heat output, weakening the console's reliability and making it susceptible to overheating and hardware failures. It's best to avoid these when shopping for slim models. You can also get CFW for some CECH-25xx slim models from mid 2010 to 2011. These things are great in terms of power efficiency and come with good Blu-Ray driver controllers embedded in the motherboard for greatly improved Blu-Ray reliability. GPUs and CPUs on these have great reliability as well. And CECH-21xx slim models (from early 2010 to mid 2010) are pretty decent in terms of power efficiency and reliability of the Blu-Ray drive, CPU, and GPU. CECH-25xx slims are just better.
@@tacos4419 My CECH-20xx works fine and I have God of War 3 which is known to make Phats combust with heat and never had an issue. Temps are stable. Problem with CECH-25xx is that it's too much of a gamble to buy one of those online so I'd recommend the CECH-21xx if you're chasing the best possible model without worrying about CFW support but those are actually rare, at least in Europe that's why I went with a 20xx.
Had my 60 gig since launch….. got the yellow light the week PSN got hacked. Fixed it and transferred all my stuff to a slim that I put a 500 gig HD in. That’s what J still currently play on even though the 60 gig is fully fixed and working. Have a physical library of around 500 games…. Got every game I really want except Afrika. I’ve loved the PS3 since day one, and still it’s my favorite system of all time. Glad to see people finally coming around to it. Also glad that I got my games back when I was getting them for under $10 each. Being that the 360 was the popular system, it was easy to find games for PS3 cheap. In fact, about 25% of my collection was from a $7.50 game bin at my local Walmart. And these were great games (Mass Effect 2, Undead Nightmare, Split Second, etc….), not just clearance crap. Anyway, love PlayStation 3 and always will……
@@Videofreak518 I suggest you avoid all the fat models, as they're more prone to issues or may stop working altogether. The slims (especially CECH-25xx and CECH-3Oxx slim models) and especially the super slims (any model), are the most reliable PS3 consoles. Avoid the CECH-20xx slims (launch edition slims from 2009). These things produce high amounts of heat output, weakening the console's reliability and making it susceptible to overheating and hardware failures.
2006 I was gifted a Xbox 360 so from 2006-2022 I was a Microsoft fan BUT I picked up a PS3 and PS5 and I’m glad I did because of a HUGEEEEE back log to catch up on so I’m very happy. I loved the 360’s era Gears,Halo,Cod,Forza horizon, was just a different time on 360 so many summers of memories. But I’m glad to hop on the Sony bandwagon
By the time the ps3 came out, I'm already retired from console gaming. I played my life away on the NES, SNES, Genesis, PS1,2, N64, DC, GC, and tons of arcades. Man, I feel old. And I don't know what you are talking about.
@@SidneyRJames I mostly play pvp shooters in vr like Onward, Breachers, Contractors, Contractors Showdown, and Pavlov because vr is the best way to play fps genre and the userbase is very active. The other genre like sports and others are great in vr as well. Just search for recommended vr games on youtube and just avoid VRChat while Beat Saber is okay
Just turn on your ps3 an play killzone 2 an choose radec academy map , an appreciate the ray tracing reflection that the walls produce , The bricks reflection still amazes me till now , even tho im playing on ps5 now but i still sometimes go back an turn my ps3 on an play that killzone 2 radec academy map , the Cell processor is something magical that’s all i can tell tbh .
I have a massive collection of jrpgs for ps3. Physical is king. Star ocean the last hope and nier are my two favorites. They lean more on the action rpg side but I still think they can be categorized as jrpgs.
The xbox 360 and ps3 was the most advanced console generation for the time. When pc master race was ruled with RTS games like Dota. Starcraft.red alert, fps like counter strike, halflife and left4dead. And mmorpgs like ragnarok. M.U. and more. When graphics on the consoles was better than the pc counterpart. When powerful graphics card was not really mainstream. When pc monitors was just starting to be little flat screen while tvs were already big plasmas or early lcds And when steam was not really a marketplace for games yet. That's why consoles were king back then. But by the ps4 and xbox 1 generation . Pc master race really caught up. And consoles are lagging behind because pc parts have new releases more often than over 6 years for a console. That's why more people invest more on pc now. Since aside for being a work or school computer it can also game better now. That is also why exclusives are far more valuable now for the consoles so they could still sell the console instead of giving it away like xbox did. Sony is doing it little by little but pc users not wanting them because of PSN requirements. That's why the 360 and ps3 was very nostlagic.
My PS3 slim still works perfectly and still hooked up next to my PS5, PS2, OG Xbox and gamecube, I still have my PS4 but dont use it much due to PS5 being backwards compatible with PS4 games, but i still play and collect for my PS3, PS2, OG Xbox and GameCube regularly when im not on the PS5, nothing beats the 6th and 7th gen, best era of gaming ever
Sometimes i think about the thousands of hours ive spent and what i could have been doing instead. Lerned a new language, worked overtime and invested in property, Lerned martial arts , gotten jacked......... Anyway so i played bloodborne for the first time lately what a game! I haven't even played sekiro yet im stoked 😊
I agreed still have my launch 60GB PS3, which I bought back in March 2007 when I was 17 years old. It cost me around £620 at the time. It has been the best console for me, and I still enjoy playing it now and then. It's hard to believe it's nearly 20 years old; I can remember it like yesterday. I got the PS3 along with the game MotorStorm and a Spider-Man Blu-ray film., you are righ , it makes me feel sick that Since the PS3 ,technology hasn't changed much compared to the PS4 and PS5.
I picked up another PS3 for cheap after donating mine to a shelter a few years ago, having fun with it over the PS5. Starting getting my old collection back easy, games are so cheap. I even bought factory sealed ones.
PS2 with FMCB memory card mod and Jailbroken PS3 is a must-have consoles. Duckstation, PPSSPP, PCSX2, and RPCS3 are amazing Playstation consoles emulators. Good times to enjoy old games.
Literally just started playing my PS3 again last week & it’s been so fun getting into titles I couldn’t afford as a 6yo. Found a cheap DFGT wheel & now I can enjoy GT6 & Initial D to their fullest extent!!
I love the PS3. Still play it to this day. I do keep it stock. It's tied to my PS account I use on the PS4/5 and I don't want to risk a ban. I like to go for legit trophies occasionally. I have a true backlog a miles long, so no need to really jailbreak it yet. It's cool that people have figured it out though.
If you ask me, the PS3 was the renaissance of the hack-and-slash. God of War 3 needs no introduction, and there were a number of obligatory ports of the older games, sometimes even on a single disk. But there was also Bayonetta, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Dante's Inferno, Darksiders, DMC, Marlow Briggs, the first Space Marine game, a handful of Kingdom Hearts installments and remasters alike, and even a Splatterhouse remake if you're into tragically unpolished jank. Beyond that, given the PS3's pedigree compared to the Xbox 360, you probably wouldn't be surprised to hear it was a real weeb's machine as well, somewhat touched upon by the aforementioned Kingdom Hearts. The amount of JRPGs that the PS3 housed was absolutely colossal, from Final Fantasy to Disgaea to Atellier...
I have a slim model still. Have it hooked up to my 1440p monitor which scales incredibly well since 720p is basically half the output resolution. RPCS3 is awesome for the games that work on it. I backed up my library and got some of them to work pretty well on my Steam Deck that way. Games like Killzone 2 still need a decent amount of power to run correctly. But RPCS3 is coming along very nicely.
Bro i bought one many years ago and abandoned it for some time after it brokedown on me. I was thinking about getting rid of it but glad i didn't. Instead i fixed it and hacked it so i could play all those awesome PS1 and PS2 games. I still have it along eith my PS4 Pro. Love your videos bro!
I threw in some new 2.5mm thermal pad and thermal paste with my black Friday order., time to repaste our unit... I have a 6gb checha06 I love old games, currently playing mostly 2000-2004 games, mostly PS2 but also some GameCube too
Dude I just started playing my ps3 two days ago the first game I played was Infamous 2 I pulled out a handful of ps3 games that still work really good there are people online playing ps3.
I still have both my 360 (not my OG one) and my PS3. I think the reason for 360 being the one everyone had initially being the comical price the PS3 launched at, with the controller lacking rumble too... :D Games for both these consoles in this generation were just good fun.
Oh the PS3… The console with my most happy memories. Inviting my friend over to play Skate 3 and passing the 1 controller I had to each other every time we fall off the skateboard, playing Minecraft PS3 Edition online with random guys and enchanting sticks with Knockback II to play a last-man-standing-skyblock-game we build ourselves, playing GTA V with that one friend at home that showed me how to get a lap dance in the strip club, playing Plants vs Zombies garden warfare for hours everyday with my friends online, talk to random people in the MWII lobbies, PUTTING MY SKYLANDERS ON THE PORTAL DAAAAAAAMMMNNN, I love the PS3!!! Playing Little Big Planet with my little cousins, because everyone could play that game, oh my god I could go on and on guys 😭
I really do believe that 2005-2015 was the sweet spot for gaming. Yes, there are masterpieces from the 90's but there was so much technological limitation back then. Now we have outstanding graphics and processing speeds, but terrible games. The PS3 and Xbox 360 have the masterpieces with the tech.
Greatest channel of all time. I have 32 gaming hardware items, being a collector and og PS3 is the greatest beauty of it all. It’s a complete technological marvel of all times. Do you remember this masterpiece back in 2005, it was something unbelievable ❤
I’ve said it before to my friends that the PS3 was Sony’s best system. Sure I had the PS4 and currently have the PS5 but the PS3 if you had the 60GB it had backwards compatibility was good times. If the PS5 had backwards compatibility it would be an easy win that’s one of the things that’s sitting Xbox upright along with Ultimate Game Pass.
Something I just discovered playing PS3 last night... you can pop in almost any CD, select 'Import', and it will save a copy of that CD locally. I dunno how Sony got away with that legally. Also pour one out for the lack of CD support on PS5 😢
I'm probably saying this in the wrong place but the PS3 is my least favorite console of all time as a tech enthusiast but I still love your videos as a retro collector. I myself have 7 consoles a windows xp gaming pc and a regular gaming pc plus plenty others. I had a jailbroken PS3 but I always just felt that the performance was subpar of any other way to play it but I also didn't grow up with one so I don't have a nostalgia factor. It was an amazing leap forward at the time from the PS3 and I love how the online service was free before sony started following the trend of greed in the industry.
You are 100%. it was so good few countries militaries used them to as compute-sharing super computers! I grew with NES Super Nintendo and Sega mega drive. by the time the PS3 came out I was start my IT career DevOps and had a big interest in hardware. What Sony did with the PS3 machine itself the (service were questionable. online multiplayer especially) but the actual machine was a BEAST! I was play Warcraft with linux on mine and the PC version of Crysis! I had a gaming PC too but I played warcraft and crysis on my PS3 too because I could... and cause it was well able for it! Same with the PS4 and same now again with the PS5 Sony solved a huge industry issue with bottlenecking on SSD. Plagues consoles and PCs alike. But sony have solved that problem now and they patented it lmao! So if you wondering why people say that some few games run better on a PS5 then they do on a 4090... thats why. It about the magic of their SSD read/write and how the other components talk to it! One other thing... N64 and PS1 were the same gen and PS2 and Gamecube were the gen after that!
Been wanting one all my life, but where I am from, even to this day their prices aren't exactly great. And what's worse is I want a CFW compatible, not HEN. It's always a late slim or super slim, with fake controllers, going for 120 USD or more. I recently picked up a fat model, a rather uncommon sighting over here, but sadly it has the infamous YLOD issue, but hey it was almost free, and I got a hard drive with it, so I guess... worth it? :')
7th Gen was the peak, it will always be relevant, period.
It has yet to be topped. The PS3 is one of the best consoles ever
Ps2 takes that cake. There are just too limited games and genre in ps3 and there is no innovated gameplay
Yeah because no only the PS3 was awesome, the Wii and Xbox 360 also offered amazing titles too and nice exclusives and were great alternatives.
I still have my PS3 and it’s still connected to my tv.
Same here: currently playing Disgaea D2.
i still use my ps3 all the time, graphics are great, physics exist, online still active, online still free, my digital music collection i still listen too, my digital movie collection i still watch and its in high definition, built in blueray player for more games and future movie releases, my digital photos and trophy collecting, i can go on and on, ps3 is still going strong and was wayyyy ahead of its time, also, its also gorgeous on a crt tv.
Still free to pay online for PS3 ?!?! Just assumed it all changed with the Ps4
@@Videofreak518Yes, still free for PS3. It never changed for PS3. Only for PS4 and now PS5.
@@Videofreak518 yep its still free, i hop on gta4 and warhawk every now and then and play without a ps plus membership
Physics...are certainly a selling point lol
@@overcastskyline1747also, it's also gorgeous on HDTVs instead 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Underrated channel and underrated console. Loving it.
I got a PS3 for the first time this year and have started my journey of collecting for it! It’s been amazing so far, such a great console 🔥
@@DoubleTGameHustle I subscribed to you just now!! Amazing work man!
@@austintalkstech Appreciate you! 👌🏽
@@DoubleTGameHustleI’m just gonna be kind, and subcribe, I just love this comment.
So many amazing games that're dirt cheap. Best get to most of the ones you want as soon as you can, because they'll never be cheaper than they are right now.
@@alkhoaja thanks! 👏🏽
The PS2/Xbox to 360/PS3 was the last true generational leap we’ve had.
I own 2 ps3's and still use both to this day. LONG LIVE THE PS3!
Without any doubt the PS3 is my favorite console of all time, even I still buy and play games on it to this days.
Aside of have a giant catalog of games very rich in "variety" in third and FIRST-party games (something that Sony abandoned complety nowdays), the console itself had so many features that no console could beat, I mean what other consoles had the functions to:
-Create and save music playlist.
-Burn CD music and convert it to a mp3 file digitally without the need of a PC.
-Import music to a game and make your own custom soundtrack on it (very few games did that).
-Download directly to the console or a USB device music, videos and images by the console's web browser.
-Be able to use a printer on it.
-Be able to install or use other operative systems on it like Linux (but sadly this option was removed).
Hell, I'm just happy that the PS4 controller is backwards compatible with the PS3 (your list is pretty great though, too!) 😉
Hello.
I never owned ps3.
After seeing one of your videos about ps3 I ordered one for myself.
Today I am going to get it from delivery.
Cant remember the last time when I was exited that much.
Thank you so much for you videos!!
What do you plan on playing?
Watch when you get a ps4. I thought ps3 was great but ps4 has ps5 like graphics and an INSANE library. Ok back to hades/dead cells/hollowknight/risk of rain. so goooooood lol😂
Add me when u get it maybe we can play cod or somethin - Starrfox64
I blinked and the 2010's disappeared, so this console is still only ten years old for me. This is the console I spent hours curating my music, movie, and wallpaper collection as much as playing games. It was priming me for caving to buy a PC.
Wow, I haven't used that store in over ten years, but it feels like just yesterday I would wake up and immediately hop onto my PS3 to hunt for PSN deals. Sometimes I open the Steam store and I feel like something's wrong but I can't figure out what. I just now realized from this video, but it feels wrong because everything isn't in columns of three and taking five-to-nine seconds to load the thumbnails.
I picked up the PS3 for the first time just a few months ago, it surprises me a lot how its community is still very active, Plants vs Zombie: Garden Warfare and Minecraft still have several players playing them.
Not to mention that Netflix, Amazon Prime and TH-cam still work on it, which is very useful for my old TV that isn't a Smart TV.
XBOX360/Wii and PS3 defined a great generation for gaming as a whole. the door between good old days and corporation/cinematic games seeping in.
The Golden Age. I’d say PS2/GC up to the end of the PS3/XBOX360 was the best era.
PlayStation 3 is my favorite console from Sony. They had some heat.. Infamous, Killzone 2, Uncharted, Last of Us, Little Big Planet, Demon Souls, and the online play was Free!!!
I still have a ps3 and like 50 games. Never gonna sell it. Probably one of my favorite consoles beside my handhelds ☺️
I sold my PS3 and now regret it.
Yeah you messed up.
@@ResidentXombie😂
You messed up big time!
That’s how I feel about my ps2 and the 100 games I had 😭
You can generally find the PS3 slim (best version) locally or online for a pretty decent price.
As a self entitled "PS3 Connoisseur" i can say one of the coolest things about jailbreaking a PS3 is PS2 Backwards Compatibility and system mods, fan/temperature control and monitoring, even full UI remaster, in game FPS/temperate, GPU overclocking, emulators, PS2 backwards compatibility is a little tricky, Sony developed a PS2 emulator to run the PS2 Classics games bought on the PS Store, with a Jailbreak you can freely get any PS2 ISO to run in this emulator, with varying results, some titles are perfectly playable while others won't boot, but compability is very high (between 80 and 83%) and some games can get fixed with config files.
I paid recently 50€ for 22 PS3 games. All in perfect condition and no sports games. ^^'
Glad you could get your hands on Just Dance 3, 4, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and Just Dance Kids 2.
I had a PS2 growing up but finally getting a PS3, and being able to play MW2 with my friends were some of the best gaming experiences I've ever had.
Imho, the PS3 will always be awesome. There are so, so many awesome games on the PS3. Enough that I could play the console exclusively for the rest of my life if I had unlimited access to it's game library...
The PlayStation 3 is definitely top 3! I’ve owned 3 (Original and 2 slims) and I’m still enjoying it in 2024. I do miss the Earth application that was in real time! You could go to different locations around the world for news, but they took it away in like 2011 or 12.
Long live PS3!
If you're playing PS3 in 2024 you need to change the thermal paste, switch out the HDD for a SSD and install CFW. With CFW you can install all your game discs on the SSD. The console runs silently and load times are quicker. Another upgrade is to use a mClassic to give a sharper image with less aliasing. You can also use a mClassic daisychained with a 4K Gamer Pro to get the games looking nice on a 4K display.
You can never talk 2 much about how good the PS3 was and still is. Its pure fun 2 play.
Love the end of your video.
I hope it will remain for future generations aswell ❤️
Still use my backwards compatible PS3
Loved the video.
Still happily playing on PS3 - and looking forward to buying more games for it to celebrate 10 years on December 17th.
Easily one of the greatest consoles ever made.
Your videos are magical. I feel like im going back to those days with a portal 😢 I've been following you since the beginning of this year and no regrets! Love your videos and the music u use in the background ❤
Just spent the last 2 or 3 days playing Black Flag and Black Ops II on my PS3.
I have a PS5, Switch, Xbox One.. and I still play games as old as 15/20/25 years all the time.
I go back to games from the 1980s regularly still. ...and heck, a lot of the modern games I play look and play like they're from the 90s. I wish companies like Capcom would make throwback RE titles. I think Konami should still be making 2D Castlevania games. There's a market for it and the games cost a fraction of the time & money to put together when compared to modern titles. One failed project can put a well known developer out of business in 2024, solely because of production costs. This is also why we see very few AAA titles that stand out from the crowd. They have to stick with what has proven to work/sell.
Konami/Capcom could put a group of 10 talented ppl together & they could churn out a great RE/Castlevania game every 6 months. They'd sell great at $9.99 digitally and some of 'em would even do well at $30 for physical copies. The existence of brands like Limited Run games proves there's a market for this.
I still have my super slim PS3 and for years barely used it for games, but in this past year have been buying them up, up to 15 games now, the only problem is time to play them because I work a lot, but love this system and proud to say I bought it brand new and still have it hooked up.
I grew up with the Genesis, PS1 and PS2, but the PS3 is my favorite console ever made.
And in the ps3 and x360 generation, developers/publishers like EA, Activision, Ubisoft, Konami and others got a lot of appreciation from gamers, unlike in the current generation
I love my ps3 currently playing sonic unleashed and ff13
Love this console.
1. Get a Slim PS3 (CECH-20xx or CECH-21xx)
2. Upgrade the internal storage and install CFW (those above were the last models to fully support it)
3. Install Webman mod, activate your console & install PKGi.
4. Enjoy your PS1, PS2, PS3 and PSP games. Compatibility for PS2 games is around 77~81% + there are HD remasters like the Ratchet or Sly HD Trilogies, while for PSP it's roughly ~35%. PS1 compatibility using the PS1 Classics emulator is pretty much flawless, 99% of the games will be perfect.
You can also follow similar steps for an Xbox 360 and take advantage of its backwards compatibility. Owning a RGH 360 and CFW PS3 will let you play a lot of PS2/Xbox games thanks to backwards compatibility. I would say they're easily the best consoles to own right now that are super easy to setup on a modern TV and install games if you're into older games.
Don't recommend CECH-20xx slims (launch edition slims from 2009).
These things produce high amounts of heat output, weakening the console's reliability and making it susceptible to overheating and hardware failures. It's
best to avoid these when shopping for slim models.
You can also get CFW for some CECH-25xx slim models from mid
2010 to 2011. These things are great in terms of power efficiency and come with good Blu-Ray driver controllers embedded in the motherboard for greatly improved Blu-Ray reliability. GPUs and CPUs on these have great
reliability as well.
And CECH-21xx slim models (from early 2010 to mid 2010) are pretty decent in terms of power efficiency and reliability of the Blu-Ray drive, CPU, and GPU. CECH-25xx slims are just better.
Good way to get banned from psn
@@tacos4419 My CECH-20xx works fine and I have God of War 3 which is known to make Phats combust with heat and never had an issue. Temps are stable.
Problem with CECH-25xx is that it's too much of a gamble to buy one of those online so I'd recommend the CECH-21xx if you're chasing the best possible model without worrying about CFW support but those are actually rare, at least in Europe that's why I went with a 20xx.
Back when playing online on the ps3 was free…
Had my 60 gig since launch….. got the yellow light the week PSN got hacked. Fixed it and transferred all my stuff to a slim that I put a 500 gig HD in. That’s what J still currently play on even though the 60 gig is fully fixed and working. Have a physical library of around 500 games…. Got every game I really want except Afrika. I’ve loved the PS3 since day one, and still it’s my favorite system of all time. Glad to see people finally coming around to it. Also glad that I got my games back when I was getting them for under $10 each. Being that the 360 was the popular system, it was easy to find games for PS3 cheap. In fact, about 25% of my collection was from a $7.50 game bin at my local Walmart. And these were great games (Mass Effect 2, Undead Nightmare, Split Second, etc….), not just clearance crap. Anyway, love PlayStation 3 and always will……
I’m playing uncharted 3 on my ps3 right now this system is legendary the 🐐
That game still looks great
I’m playing uncharted 3 on my PS5
I sold my fat ps3 back in like 2011 ended up getting the slim some years later, and now looking to getting the fat one again at a good price
@@Videofreak518 I suggest you avoid all the fat models, as they're more prone to issues or may stop working altogether. The slims (especially CECH-25xx and CECH-3Oxx slim models) and especially the super slims (any model), are the most reliable PS3 consoles.
Avoid the CECH-20xx slims (launch edition slims from 2009). These things produce high amounts of heat output,
weakening the console's reliability and making it susceptible to overheating and hardware failures.
2006 I was gifted a Xbox 360 so from 2006-2022 I was a Microsoft fan BUT I picked up a PS3 and PS5 and I’m glad I did because of a HUGEEEEE back log to catch up on so I’m very happy. I loved the 360’s era Gears,Halo,Cod,Forza horizon, was just a different time on 360 so many summers of memories. But I’m glad to hop on the Sony bandwagon
By the time the ps3 came out, I'm already retired from console gaming. I played my life away on the NES, SNES, Genesis, PS1,2, N64, DC, GC, and tons of arcades. Man, I feel old. And I don't know what you are talking about.
i dont see myself buying anymore systems past ps5 as a 40 yr old man
You should get Meta Quest 3 it is really good and is groundbreaking more than 8bit 2d to hd
3d
@@toututu2993do you recommend any games for the meta quest?
@@SidneyRJames I mostly play pvp shooters in vr like Onward, Breachers, Contractors, Contractors Showdown, and Pavlov because vr is the best way to play fps genre and the userbase is very active.
The other genre like sports and others are great in vr as well.
Just search for recommended vr games on youtube and just avoid VRChat while Beat Saber is okay
Just turn on your ps3 an play killzone 2 an choose radec academy map , an appreciate the ray tracing reflection that the walls produce , The bricks reflection still amazes me till now , even tho im playing on ps5 now but i still sometimes go back an turn my ps3 on an play that killzone 2 radec academy map , the Cell processor is something magical that’s all i can tell tbh .
I have a massive collection of jrpgs for ps3. Physical is king. Star ocean the last hope and nier are my two favorites. They lean more on the action rpg side but I still think they can be categorized as jrpgs.
The xbox 360 and ps3 was the most advanced console generation for the time. When pc master race was ruled with RTS games like Dota. Starcraft.red alert, fps like counter strike, halflife and left4dead. And mmorpgs like ragnarok. M.U. and more. When graphics on the consoles was better than the pc counterpart. When powerful graphics card was not really mainstream. When pc monitors was just starting to be little flat screen while tvs were already big plasmas or early lcds And when steam was not really a marketplace for games yet. That's why consoles were king back then. But by the ps4 and xbox 1 generation . Pc master race really caught up. And consoles are lagging behind because pc parts have new releases more often than over 6 years for a console. That's why more people invest more on pc now. Since aside for being a work or school computer it can also game better now. That is also why exclusives are far more valuable now for the consoles so they could still sell the console instead of giving it away like xbox did. Sony is doing it little by little but pc users not wanting them because of PSN requirements. That's why the 360 and ps3 was very nostlagic.
My PS3 slim still works perfectly and still hooked up next to my PS5, PS2, OG Xbox and gamecube, I still have my PS4 but dont use it much due to PS5 being backwards compatible with PS4 games, but i still play and collect for my PS3, PS2, OG Xbox and GameCube regularly when im not on the PS5, nothing beats the 6th and 7th gen, best era of gaming ever
I love your content! Thank you for sharing!
Sometimes i think about the thousands of hours ive spent and what i could have been doing instead. Lerned a new language, worked overtime and invested in property, Lerned martial arts , gotten jacked.........
Anyway so i played bloodborne for the first time lately what a game! I haven't even played sekiro yet im stoked 😊
I love the ps3, it's so legendary!
I agreed still have my launch 60GB PS3, which I bought back in March 2007 when I was 17 years old. It cost me around £620 at the time. It has been the best console for me, and I still enjoy playing it now and then. It's hard to believe it's nearly 20 years old; I can remember it like yesterday. I got the PS3 along with the game MotorStorm and a Spider-Man Blu-ray film., you are righ , it makes me feel sick that Since the PS3 ,technology hasn't changed much compared to the PS4 and PS5.
I picked up another PS3 for cheap after donating mine to a shelter a few years ago, having fun with it over the PS5.
Starting getting my old collection back easy, games are so cheap. I even bought factory sealed ones.
PS3 is my favorite console
The era of games
I like it when this guy sits there and raves about the PS3
Got my ps3 in 06 for xmas. I was dying to play Ratchet and Clank on ps3. Ps3 was and still is awesome.
PS2 with FMCB memory card mod and Jailbroken PS3 is a must-have consoles. Duckstation, PPSSPP, PCSX2, and RPCS3 are amazing Playstation consoles emulators. Good times to enjoy old games.
Literally just started playing my PS3 again last week & it’s been so fun getting into titles I couldn’t afford as a 6yo.
Found a cheap DFGT wheel & now I can enjoy GT6 & Initial D to their fullest extent!!
I love the PS3. Still play it to this day. I do keep it stock. It's tied to my PS account I use on the PS4/5 and I don't want to risk a ban. I like to go for legit trophies occasionally. I have a true backlog a miles long, so no need to really jailbreak it yet. It's cool that people have figured it out though.
Bro you rock! Thank you for the awesome content!
If you ask me, the PS3 was the renaissance of the hack-and-slash. God of War 3 needs no introduction, and there were a number of obligatory ports of the older games, sometimes even on a single disk. But there was also Bayonetta, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Dante's Inferno, Darksiders, DMC, Marlow Briggs, the first Space Marine game, a handful of Kingdom Hearts installments and remasters alike, and even a Splatterhouse remake if you're into tragically unpolished jank.
Beyond that, given the PS3's pedigree compared to the Xbox 360, you probably wouldn't be surprised to hear it was a real weeb's machine as well, somewhat touched upon by the aforementioned Kingdom Hearts. The amount of JRPGs that the PS3 housed was absolutely colossal, from Final Fantasy to Disgaea to Atellier...
I still have PS3, I still pull it out occasionally,
the canadian energy seeping from this video made me sub immediately
Hell yeah the same video again
(I love the PS3 and want to see this video a hundred more times)
I have a slim model still. Have it hooked up to my 1440p monitor which scales incredibly well since 720p is basically half the output resolution. RPCS3 is awesome for the games that work on it. I backed up my library and got some of them to work pretty well on my Steam Deck that way. Games like Killzone 2 still need a decent amount of power to run correctly. But RPCS3 is coming along very nicely.
Bro i bought one many years ago and abandoned it for some time after it brokedown on me. I was thinking about getting rid of it but glad i didn't. Instead i fixed it and hacked it so i could play all those awesome PS1 and PS2 games. I still have it along eith my PS4 Pro. Love your videos bro!
I threw in some new 2.5mm thermal pad and thermal paste with my black Friday order., time to repaste our unit... I have a 6gb checha06
I love old games, currently playing mostly 2000-2004 games, mostly PS2 but also some GameCube too
Dude I just started playing my ps3 two days ago the first game I played was Infamous 2 I pulled out a handful of ps3 games that still work really good there are people online playing ps3.
I feel like the PS3 is the first old console with great graphics I just played GTA V on Saturday during Thanksgiving weekend
I remember when I first got my PS3 for Christmas back in 09 after my brother kept hogging the Xbox 360
I still have both my 360 (not my OG one) and my PS3. I think the reason for 360 being the one everyone had initially being the comical price the PS3 launched at, with the controller lacking rumble too... :D
Games for both these consoles in this generation were just good fun.
My favorite consoles of alltime
Og xbox/ ps2
360 /ps3
Gaming back than was awesome
Oh the PS3…
The console with my most happy memories. Inviting my friend over to play Skate 3 and passing the 1 controller I had to each other every time we fall off the skateboard, playing Minecraft PS3 Edition online with random guys and enchanting sticks with Knockback II to play a last-man-standing-skyblock-game we build ourselves, playing GTA V with that one friend at home that showed me how to get a lap dance in the strip club, playing Plants vs Zombies garden warfare for hours everyday with my friends online, talk to random people in the MWII lobbies, PUTTING MY SKYLANDERS ON THE PORTAL DAAAAAAAMMMNNN, I love the PS3!!! Playing Little Big Planet with my little cousins, because everyone could play that game, oh my god I could go on and on guys 😭
I just beat Fuse on the ps3 with my gf last weekend. It was one of the most fun split screen coop games we've ever played.
You’re married? I don’t you wear a wedding ring
Married to his PS3 lol
The PS3 is the most appropriate console of that generation. It had a bad start but came on strong of the 7 gen.
LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!
I really do believe that 2005-2015 was the sweet spot for gaming. Yes, there are masterpieces from the 90's but there was so much technological limitation back then. Now we have outstanding graphics and processing speeds, but terrible games. The PS3 and Xbox 360 have the masterpieces with the tech.
Funny timing. I dug mine out a week ago after sitting for maybe a decade now
Pure fun era, no pay to win. Good online fun
What is the first game in the video? I remember playing it when I went to a friend's house, but never knew the name.
It's how I feel too....
Greatest channel of all time.
I have 32 gaming hardware items, being a collector and og PS3 is the greatest beauty of it all. It’s a complete technological marvel of all times. Do you remember this masterpiece back in 2005, it was something unbelievable ❤
😮
I’m investing in my ps3 and putting an ssd to speed it up a bit.its so cheap than it was when the ps3 was in its prime
The original PS3 is the best PlayStation ever made. It had blueray, played games at HD and was backwards compatible with PS1 and PS2.
I recently bought a PS3 I love it so amazing I love Time Crisis hahah
What’s the skating game you were playing ?
There was 2, which one?
The one that showed up most was one of the SKATE games
Skate 2+Tony Hawk I think it’s Project 8
i like how this dude kinda speaks like chill Bill Burr
2:43 Haha it was the complete opposite thinking in the EU back then: it was actually hard to find people who owned a 360 ^^ The good old times, man!
I have two launch Frankensteins and love em
I’ve said it before to my friends that the PS3 was Sony’s best system. Sure I had the PS4 and currently have the PS5 but the PS3 if you had the 60GB it had backwards compatibility was good times. If the PS5 had backwards compatibility it would be an easy win that’s one of the things that’s sitting Xbox upright along with Ultimate Game Pass.
What’s the controller you’re using at 0:09? Is it for the ps3?
I still have my ps3 from 2009 but I tried to fix it 8 years ago
>A PS3 is still awesome video
Alright, I know how this goes.
I eagerly await your PS3 emulation video
Sorry for not subscribing earlier, my man.
10:41 how did you add the PS2 Classics Launcher to your PS2 Games folder?
Sony made this PS3 well.... But only put 256MB of ram and the GPU was only 256MB which held the 3Ghz 8 core cpu back.
Something I just discovered playing PS3 last night... you can pop in almost any CD, select 'Import', and it will save a copy of that CD locally. I dunno how Sony got away with that legally. Also pour one out for the lack of CD support on PS5 😢
They got away with it by putting copy protection on the songs you copied from the CD. After putting them into your hard drive, you can’t share them.
If you play wrestling games, you can then use the ripped music as the wrestler's entrance theme.
TH-cam wasn't really a thing when the PS3 released, and there especially wasn't gaming on it back then.
I'm probably saying this in the wrong place but the PS3 is my least favorite console of all time as a tech enthusiast but I still love your videos as a retro collector. I myself have 7 consoles a windows xp gaming pc and a regular gaming pc plus plenty others. I had a jailbroken PS3 but I always just felt that the performance was subpar of any other way to play it but I also didn't grow up with one so I don't have a nostalgia factor. It was an amazing leap forward at the time from the PS3 and I love how the online service was free before sony started following the trend of greed in the industry.
You are 100%. it was so good few countries militaries used them to as compute-sharing super computers!
I grew with NES Super Nintendo and Sega mega drive. by the time the PS3 came out I was start my IT career DevOps and had a big interest in hardware. What Sony did with the PS3 machine itself the (service were questionable. online multiplayer especially) but the actual machine was a BEAST! I was play Warcraft with linux on mine and the PC version of Crysis! I had a gaming PC too but I played warcraft and crysis on my PS3 too because I could... and cause it was well able for it! Same with the PS4 and same now again with the PS5 Sony solved a huge industry issue with bottlenecking on SSD. Plagues consoles and PCs alike. But sony have solved that problem now and they patented it lmao! So if you wondering why people say that some few games run better on a PS5 then they do on a 4090... thats why. It about the magic of their SSD read/write and how the other components talk to it!
One other thing... N64 and PS1 were the same gen and PS2 and Gamecube were the gen after that!
The local newspaper used to be dope tbh.
Been wanting one all my life, but where I am from, even to this day their prices aren't exactly great. And what's worse is I want a CFW compatible, not HEN. It's always a late slim or super slim, with fake controllers, going for 120 USD or more. I recently picked up a fat model, a rather uncommon sighting over here, but sadly it has the infamous YLOD issue, but hey it was almost free, and I got a hard drive with it, so I guess... worth it? :')
How do you know which generation of ps3 is, from model names