Was the PS3 ahead of its time for 2006?
>>721124950no
>>721124950yes
>no vibration at launch>ps2 backward compatibility has major issues>no games until 2010>yellow light of death
>>721124950No gaem
>>721124950>four usb portsI've never connected a USB device to any console.
>>721125294>>no vibration at launchThis was a meme that should never have been born, yet for some reason continued living, no doubt thanks to the bottom of the barrel impressionable easily impressed retards it was marketed to.
>>721125425It was the only (reasonable) way to get screenshots off the PS3/4
>>721125425How'd you recharge your PS3 controllers?
>>721124950>get locked into a platform that becomes increasingly more expensive all the time>eventually gets no gamesI stuck with PC even as a Nintendo fan until NS1 came out and it was worth it
>>721125930>another no geams pc troonwhat pc "exclusives" aren't on console that are worth playing, retard?
mine wasn't backwards compatible so it wasn't
>>721125294What was the issues with BC?
>let's shove a bunch of unnecessary shit into this video game systembrilliant
>>721124950>sony nigger history revisionism
>>721124950$600. That's flipping burgers for two weeks. Genuinely, how are gamers so poor that this mind broke them?
>>721124950no. it was a console nobody asked for. nobody asked for blu ray and mandatory installations. nobody asked for micro sd or whatever the fuck which added extra cost. nobody cared about hdmi at the time. nobody cared about usb ports. that's why the xbox 360 decimated it. it was significantly cheaper and microsoft focused on actual performant gaming hardware over random features nobody cared about. as well as securing exclusivity deals for xbox players. the ps4 is what the ps3 should've been. and the ps4 was made in the mould of the xbox 360.
>>721124950Its media player hasn't been topped as far as consoles go.
>>721126541you're right, switch2 should've been 600
>>721126785It should've been 6000 so poors fuck off and gaming companies no longer pander to subhumans
>>721124950For a while it was the cheapest Blu-Ray player
>>721126541- 50% in taxes- 50 bucks to gas per week- however much you need to eatso it is closer to two months of flipping them
>>721126541that's damn near a grand in today's dollars
>>721124950Zero gamesShit take
>>721126843Consoles are literally the poorman brown third worlder option though
Don't the original PS3s have an issue where they eventually all fail, or am I remembering something different?
>>721127080Yes, both the early models of the PS3 and 360 were prone to failure.7th gen was really bad.
>>721126989 Lmao imagine saying “zero games” when it had Demon’s Souls, MGS4, MotorStorm, Resistance, Warhawk, and Yakuza 3-5. It absolutely stumbled out of the gate, but if you actually owned one past 2009 you weren’t starving for good shit. Cope harder.
>>721124950>fully backwards compatible with graphics synthesizerSome games still crashed or had other issues>Blu-RayYou would expect this>USB portsFor what? Controller charging?>SD, Micro SDWho cares?>RSX GPUWhich is prone to HW failure due to using faulty ball soldering technique at the time, literally your PS3 is ticking time bomb>TOSHLINK optical outputThis is a plus for audiophiles>HDMIIt's a fucking HD console
Yeah it was a good value, I don't dispute that.I would have gotten one if I didn't already have an Xbox Live account and Halo friends and shit from Xbox Original. Launch lineup was tough though. Ridge Racer 7 is still amazing but the rest of it was awful.
>>721125294>ps2 backward compatibility has major issuesIt was an actual ps2 inside the system at launch, no issues at all.
>>721125294>ps2 backward compatibility has major issuesSource: Some gay nigger who "hacked his PS3 to give it backward compatibility".
>>721127080That was the xbox, they used the wrong solder and if they got hot the whole gpu would brick. ps3 had a issue with the slim model where the thermal paste was dogshit quality and would get too hot so it would need to be replaced. I never had the issue with the fat ps3 but I also think the way people kept their consoles was part of the issue.>Keeping their consoles in a wooden box of a tv cabinet laying flat between 4 other devicesvs>Keeping the console out in the open laying upright so the airflow circulates better around themIrony is that I think the ps4 or 5 and later consoles specifically shit themselves when you try to lay them upright because the weight of the components and heat cause them to warp.
custom architecture instead of x64 puts it behind the times, not ahead
>>721127080idk but my cousins fat ps3 got the ylod and we tried all sorts of things to fix it like the hair dryer method and a few others but could never get it to work. ended up giving up on it.
>>721127234>Blu-Ray>You would expect thislmao no you wouldn't, hd-dvd and blu-ray were emerging technologies when they came out. Just like those retarded 3d tvs that came out a couple years later.
>>721128026>Not following slop puts them behind the timesgrim
>>721124950This is like praising the xbox one for all its tech and multimedia features no one cared about and wondering why it failed.
>>721128604It had a big fan
>>721128664for you
>>721128182
>>721124950Way ahead.
>>721124950It was the last soulful system.
I remember when Crazy Ken got up on stage at E3 2005 and said it was 2 TFLOPS.
>>721128882>Retard ignores that there was an entire format war>Retard also pretends like blu-ray should be 'expected' when no one had a player yet
>>721128664It is funny how after the 360 rrod every Xbox has had overly good airflow
>>721129280>retard completely ignores who was part of developing blu-ray and who made PS3
>>721127234Unlike the 360 which didn't even have a HDMI port.
>>721129367>Retard changes argument and expects no one to notice
>>721129432Imagine having blu-ray player without hdmi output
>>721129285>It is funny how after the 360 rrod every Xbox has had overly good airflowPS4? Yikes
>>721125294>>721126403>>721127416>>721127553>ps2 backward compatibility has major issuesI think this is something that has been forgotten about since many people on /v/ were children or not even alive yet. I bought a launch PS3 and when you popped in a PS2 game, the image was completely crushed and pixelated. People were rightfully upset, and it took a few firmware updates for it to be corrected. Now, it did get fixed but it was obvious it shouldn't of been like this at the launch. Look on the PS forums from years ago.. there were mega-threads about it.The Dualshock issue did bother me at launch, but I got over it. I also didn't care the system only had one good launch game at the time (Resistance - Fall of Man). I was completely blown away by the bells and whistles the console had. There was nothing like it at the time. Even the simple task of putting in a CD, ripping it and pulling the info from the internet blew me away (I had a PC mind you, but this was a console doing it). I also used it as a media server and that was fucking awesome. Yes, I know I am a "boomer" (I'm 39) for vidya game meme standards. It was a wild time man. PS4 and PS5 launches just feel lame compared to that magical time.
>>721129737I used to play music on mine all the time cause of the earth visualizer, thought it was the coolest thing and it's really never been replicated.
>>721124950PS3 was worth the money at launch, the PS5 is not.Sony can eat my ass.
>>721129970>earth visualizerFun fact that was a real time render by the cell and no GPU.
>>721124950By a few years yeah
>>721129737PS3 and 360 seems like the last time a console was doing things their predecessors couldn’t
>>721125930Sounds like you were a shitcube tranny meaning your opinion is worth less than dogshit
>>721126541spoken like a true leech who doesn't pay for rent or anything even remotely expensive in his lifelet me break it down for youthe minimum wage in 2006 was $5.15 per hour, which is what you'd earn at the time for "flipping burgers"a part time job is 15-20 hours per week, so staying on the high end side thats $103/week, thats around $420-440/month dependin on weekends.So if you had a part time job, which is what most people who also have time for videogames have, a whole month wasn't enough to pay for the console, even if they still lived with their parents and thus had little to no expenses(no rent, no food, no bills, etc)But lets assume you did flip burgers as a full time job?So 40 hours per week, that makes it just shy of $900/month.But if you have a full time job, you likely don't really have that much time for videogames, and you likely don't even live with your parents anymore(in 2006 the situation wasn't as atrocious as it is now, so a lot of people, but still not most, were actually able to live on their own as soon as they turned 18), which means you now also have a lot of expenses, such as rent, bills, food, transportation, etc.So no, $600 is not "flipping burgers for 2 weeks" in 2006, and a console that costs more than your monthly income as someone who "flips burgers" as a part time job, or 2/3rd of your monthly income if you "flip burgers" as your full time job, is fucking expensive, even more so when the previous 2 console generations were priced $300 when they were first released, at a time when people earned more than they did in 2006.
>>721130512>rentStopped reading there. Not my problem if you're too stupid to exclusively buy to own.
>>721124950I still use mine to watch DVDs so I'd say it was a good investment
>>721124950>a bunch of worthless features that do nothing but drive up the pricethe multimedia consoles in the 90s were a huge disaster because of this and sony was retarded for repeating this mistake. hdmi is really the only thing that was genuinely useful for playing games
>>721129737ps3 media server was god tier at the time.
>>721129970I loved it as well. It was cool to see a super detailed earth and your music blasting. I also loved putting up custom high resolution wallpapers or digital photos I took with my friends and listening to music.>>721130345I thought so, but wasn't for sure.>>721130389I absolutely agree.. I feel like now all the consoles are mostly the same. Nothing is unique or different and every system has the same games anyway.
>>721125294>playing bingo with every firmware update removing a feature
>>721128604The Xbox One launched in a post netflix world, it was a different time. Netflix was still a rental service that sent you DVDs via regular mail when the PS3 came out.
>>721130858I still use Universal Media Server to this day. It works great on the PS4. It's a real shame the PS5 doesn't support media servers. I still keep my PS4 connected to me TV for that very reason.
>>721129970I was really surprised no one's ever made a copy of it for pc. Or if they have I can't find it.
The real reason to own a PS3
Looking back at it the PS3 era is still way better than what we got now
>>721129737I used my launch ps3 for folding @ home, if anyone remembers that. You could use the ps3 to fold proteins and then upload them to a university to help with their research.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoMHnKMD_Aw
>>721131451I remember it very well. I put a lot of hours into that. It was nice to do some real good by using a simple program like that
>>721131330>Playing MHFU with the bros, then playing MHP3rd with the CFW brosI think I put in more hours into AHParty than any PS3 game. Made a japanese account to grab the application early even.
>>721124950No, things started to go to shit after it was released.
Why did UMD discs fail to take off?
>>721124950Those early models had the yellow light, they were definitely not worth the asking price.
>>721129737>shouldn't of beendie ESL
>>721132205wasn’t there plans for tech outside of the psp to use umd and then it never happened.
>>721124950you forgot free online play and dedicated servers for 1st party games
>>721126638I thought bizarro /v/ threads were a thing of the past.
>>721130701are you fucking retarded?the whole point is the minimum wage worker, the one "flipping burgers" like in the original post i replied todo you seriously think anyone flipping burgers has the money to buy a house?
>>721132205Takes physical space and everything was moving towards digital which is more convenient and doesn't degrade so easily
>>721133093if you save up for a couple of years living out of a tent instead of renting an apartment? sure
>>721126638microsoft didn't decimate shit you stupid fucking retard. ps3 ended up winning the console war of 7th gen and ended up with more sales than the 360 even with the rough start that it had.
>>721124950yeahhardware ps1, ps2 and ps3
>>721125674telepathy
>>721124950A media system so good it almost bankrupted Sony? Fuck yea it was worth it. Games were neh but how it easily connected to a computer with torrents more than made up for it. Plus bloodborn.
>>721134168>t-the ps3 won!!!!wii lol, and the ps3 only outsold the 360 way later in its life because sony was practically giving the thing away. cry snoyboy.
>>721125294>ps2 backward compatibility has major issuesyou never owned one you fucking poorfag
>>721130512Who the fuck ever earns minimum wage anyways? 2006 I was earning ~$12/hr at Staples.
>>721126403overheats the ps3 and can lead to the famous yellow blinking light of deathyou know when the CPU literaly MELTS and unplugs from the moderboardthe only fixing being putting your fucking console on the oven for 45 seconds to MELT the fucking thing aaway AGAIN and pray it glues to the fucking thing againand it usualy workedgod i love the ps3 and all the bullshit behind it
>>721124950
>>721135568>picSo... what now? I can't see it ever being brought up again.
>>721124950That's $933 in today's money
>>721126638>it was significantly cheaper and microsoft focused on actual performant gaming hardware over random features nobody cared aboutwhat about a processor that didn't die in a year?
>>721127234>handwaving away the portsyou forgot to mention that the ps3 launched with a linux mode which was huge for the time
>>721124950It didn't have a micro sd slot. It had regular sized SD card support, MemoryStick, and CompactFlash cards.Also Yes, it was worth it. The original PS3 had a lower failure rate compared to the Xbox 360. Though the Original PS3 still had a relatively high failure rate when compared to the later models.
>>721137479Oh yeah I forgot that>launch with OtherOS support in hope of lowering export taxes>EU sees through your shit, remove OtherOS in updateI think they got sued because of that
What the fuck is a TOSHLINK optical output?
>>721137752audioshitte
>>721136630Because in mens world no one gives a fuck who sleep with some sluts on island . It's not corruption case and just another episode of cancel culture made by single Karens
>>721124950The Xbox 360 was more expensive than the launch PS3 if you bought the HD-DVD player attachment + WiFi adapter + hard drive + memory card + HDMI adapter + batteries tip
>>721129367So your statement was just "you would expect Sony to sell a product they made"? How does that discredit the price value of it? Do you expect to be gifted a free bluray player from Sony whether you buy PlayStation or not?
>>721137995>hdmi adapter the 399$ 360 came with a hd and component cables which did hd plus hd tvs were the minority in 2006
ps had metal gear and final fantasy and now it has nothing, it has no purpose and is certainly not worth 100$ now even, it's real value is about 50$ and even then it's like I don't even need this piece of shit.
>>721124950>Four USB portsI’m sold
>>721138201why would it be backwards compatible for ps1 but not ps2 games? so they can scam you for more money. fuck sony. It literally serves no purpose, I hate consoles.
>>721124950Don't forget:>can connect to printers>can connect to cameras>can use generic cheap USB controllers for input>can use USB HID devices as well>could run linux (back then)It really did everything.
>>721137752High quality audio port for connecting to a sound system.
>>721138293wasn’t part of the reason xbox exists because microsoft was afraid people would start using playstations as pcs or is that some bullshit that I believed?
>>721138149You already know what they did with PS2 and it was success, of course they would do the same thing with PS3
>>721138291>why would it be backwards compatible for ps1 but not ps2 games?Because the PS1 could be emulated on the PS3's hardware, but needed PS2 hardware built-in to play PS2 games. The launch $600 PS3 did play PS2 games. It was removed in later models to reduce the price, and reduce points of system failure resulting from having 2 consoles shoved in the case.
>>721138406that's part of the reason, yeah
>>721138170>hd tvs were the minority>So the 360 actually was actually slightly less expensiveYeah okay, retard. People were upgrading, and they had to upgrade the cables to match.
>>721124950>No games apart from Demon's SoulsConsoles died after PS2
>>721138487component did 720p fine. 1080p/1080i resolution was nothing more than upscaling during the 7th gen
>>721138406Yeah, back with the PS2 actually. Sony released a Linux kit for it, and back then some were using PS2s for computations, there were rumors that middle east used it for missiles or some shit.This was seen as a threat to Windows and the PC ecosystem
>>721138573It's still upscaling today
>>721124950Of course it was literally "worth it", they only lowered the price by removing components. The people looking for game consoles weren't the ones who would benefit from toshlink, multiple sd card slots, multiple usb ports, or whatever a "graphics synthesizer" is supposed to be to the extent of paying that much. I bet many would have even went for a version with no blu ray support if that made it cheaper. For that cost you could get a 360, a ps2, and a game or two.
>>721137670the lawsuit was more of a consumer rights thing, last i heard, because everyone was so pissed about the pc functionality being removed from their already expensive as hell hardware
>>721138638there was a brief moment during the ps4 gen where native 1080p was standard
>>721138882Yeah bloodborne decided to run 1080p and ran like shit because of that decision
>>721138882I would say the frames weren't worth it but they don't give a shit
>>721127226This is the launch model, they literally said 2006 twice
>>721138865Yeah, removing shit you advertised post-sale was a big no-no back then. Sadly nowadays there are no such protections - shitty companies with IoT crap take out functionality through forced updates all the time and don't get flak for it.
>>721132240cope and seethe, incel
>>721131825The jap version of AHP to this day has more compatibility with games :\
it was the only bulk machine capable of powering The Machine. Definitely ahead of its time.
>>721124950NOPE! F*ck! I got an HD 6770 in 2011 for $79. Can't imagine how little a mid-range PC build would cost back then.
>>7211392472006 PC has no games
>>721139247hope you like games for windows live
>>721140113The few games I got with GFWL DRM were updated to Steamworks instead.
>>721124950I got a FAT backwards compatible (chrome trim model) recently. Shit feels like a life a premium $100k+ carCrazy how poorfags normies got filteted by it in 2007.Compared to my Xbox 360, the xbox console feels like a poorfag's piece of shit
>>721125294>no vibrationworth even more then
>>721124950No. Any console released after the 2000s was retarded and trying to keep a dead paradigm going, the PS3 even more so because it was trying to bank on the same new optical media hypewagon that PS1 and PS2 got away with, except that DVDs were mostly good enough and just downloading onto HDDs and SSDs was better than Bluray.The USB ports would have only been useful if you could play games with mouse and keyboard like a normal person.TOSLINK would have only been good if Sony had FORCED the creation of a new optical Toslink port and connector that doesn't suck ass.
>>721141732everything about the fat ps3 feels premium except the flimsy controller
>>721124950lol no
>>721124950>FEATURES FEATURES FEATURES FEATURES FEATURES FEATURES FEATURES >90% of these go unused by the massesNotice how nobody cried about the PS3 slim lacking memory card ports? That's because this type of shit doesn't matter and people care about what games they can play on it.And the PS3 had nogames until the back half of its lifespan.
>>721129285They have good airflow if we're being honest, 360 just suffered the most from TSMC's fuckup at the factory during that timespan and Microcock wound up being the ones to suffer the consequences.
>>721130512>the minimum wage in 2006 was $5.15 per hourDamn, you niggers were poor as fuck back then.
>>721131125>>721130858Unironic question.What's a mediaserver? What's its usecase today?
>>721129280And ultimately both lost because Netflix decided to move from physical media to digital streaming over the internet which Microcock just happened to fully back by giving Netflix the infrastructure they needed to get that started. Literally powered by the same tech that was used for Xbox Live 2.0.
>>721129737>ps3>boomerShut the fuck up you stupid nigger
>>721132205The plastic case didn't do shit, playing games on PSP while on the go meant that disc was going to get fucked up either way.
>>721124950Nope never. After all of these years I am incredibly salty how shit the PS3 was. It partially redeemed itself in 2011-2013 but the damage was done. Never bought another console after that>>721126638The front cover lid that flips open and has SD cards and such is cool but I never used them and I doubt a good chunk of players did. I wanted FUCKING VIDEOGAMES not a media player
>>721141732I agree it felt like a premium console only until you wanted to play videogaems on it. PS3 was about presentation and a meme that it was the most powerful console ever that failed to deliver on actual games
>>721143674Nah. Flash memory prices crashing killed blu-ray long before streaming did. Though Sony had about 7 years of being on top to recoup their money with XDCAM. The real issue is everyone lost on long term memory storage. Even in the archival world, bluray is arguably one of the best forms because it can last 100 years compared to>30 years tape>5 year HDD cyclingThat's why I have a little archive of xdcam still to pass on media and I just have to make sure my kids know how to fix the fucking player lol.
>>721144363>muh graphics.last of us, uncharted 3 and GoW 3 is almost a 7th gen game.
>>721145081I didn't mean graphics you dummy. Sony sold the PS3 as the final console to end all consoles. Gow3 was good. Last of Us and Uncharted 3 were shit
>>721124950Why are Toslink and USB listed? They're both ancient tech by the time the PS3 launched
>>721145227then find a new hobbie if you think that the PS3 failed to deliver "actual games"
>>721126541I was 11 and still needed my parents to buy me video game consoles as gifts.The "arcade" Xbox 360 was the obvious choice since it was only around $300 or whatever.
>>721129737PS5 doesn't even have system themes like ps4 and ps3.
>>721126129PC ports of old games that were different from console versions (like whole different game)
>>721128604Xbox one was marketed as TV device, and they forgot that it's a game console.
Consolefags need to get the new EuthanasiaStation.
>>721145640Exactly. It's absolutely hilarious.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nULp0pGKCS8
>>721141732Why was only certain models of this fat bitch backwards compatible
360 had better hardware.
>>721145405Why didn't you explain to your mommy how Xbox = shit library while Playstation = good library
>>721145306PS2 and Xbox had USB 1.1, virtually useless for anything but inputs. Toslink was limited to multimedia focused variants like Panasonic Q or PSX, and the former would only have it for DVD playback apparently.>>721138406Sony did their thing, nebulous bullshit statements completely detached from reality, and claimed the upcoming PS2 would become centerpieces replacing computers or some shareholder bait along these lines, which prompted the development of Xbox.
>>721146230I remember getting a 360 after a PS3 and it was way cooler than the PS3. Even the fan noise of the console was comforting I'm sorry I devoted most of my playtime to PS3. I was a blind fanboy
>>721124950It was the goat console
>>721124950PSN used to be freeonly thing that made it cheaper than a 36050$ spend today or tomorrow is the same 50$ (minus plus inflation)
>hot takeit was common knowledge who people who weren't poor that didn't want a shitty plastic goybox360 to play their cod and halo (more like gaylo)
>>721149073>shitty plastic goybox360the 360 had a metal casethe playstation was plastic bro
>>721124950>shit no one cared about.jpg
>>721125294>games became unplayable if the save file became too large
>>721142028Who uses MK for console games
>>721125294>>no vibration at launchwhat are you gay
>>721124950as someone that was like 4-8 when the ps1 came out then about 15ish when the ps3 came out the 3 was the best console ever for me I had the fat it died due to rainbow six vagasI love it so much I miss the controllers being like the 3's just everything about it was perfect
>>721125294All the replies are snoy seethe
>>721150779>died due to rainbow six vagasThat was a launch title holy kek
>>721126129About four decades of games and every single console game in that period. Dumbass bitch.
>>721129737>Even the simple task of putting in a CD, ripping it and pulling the info from the internet blew me away (I had a PC mind you, but this was a console doing it)Wait, you could do that?
>>721124950I will never forget the PS3 because I met my first gf on a PS3 forum. She was a bit nuts in the head but legit 8/10.tldr: PS3 saved me from wizardhood
>>721124950Forgot to mention >breaks in less than a yearAlso>graphics synthesizermeme>CD/DVD reader>USB ports>SD and Micro SD readers>Optical output>HDMIAll cheap in 2006
>>721124950Do NOT buy a console because it will be good later on. The PS3 is an excellent example. The original unit is loud and prone to failure. You should wait and get the cheaper Slim when the system had actual games to play. If PS1/2 games are your thing get a fucking PS2. It’s like buying a Switch 2 today except it costs $900 and the system is set to only have Mario Kart and Bananza until 2029 by which point everyone is buying a Lite or OLED.
>>721127416Only the launch units had the full PS2. Most fats emulated the GPU with some added issues. Hell, even the PS2 Slim had issues playing some PS2 games.
>>721124950If by ahead you mean having no games worth playing then yes
>>721152273buying a console is like buy carswait until they iron out the issues
>>721153604Pretty much with the exception that unlike with cars the last model year is rarely the best. For example PS3 Super Slim was a sack of shit.
>>721124950No games rules all of that out. Why buy a console with nothing to play on it besides shit I could play on my PS2?
>>721124950I don't need all that, just games to play. Guess what it DIDN'T have.
I made my own console, thank you!
>>721125029Yes it was, stupid faggot
>>721124950i guess. it beta tested a lot of games before they went to PC.
>>721153762Oh yeah they did the super slim dirty.I don't know how the fuck they managed to fuck that up. I posted that in regards to games. I never bought a console after a PS3 but if i were to, it would be at the end of it's life when games are out and the console is cheap. Consumerism is cancer my cousins all bought a PS5 purely for the hype. They barely play videogames
>>721128664>>721128664>>721128664>>721128664
>>721152028Yep. I used to do that, then move those files over to my mp3 player via the said usb ports
>>721141732I hope that shit was frankeinstein'd by sony otherwise you're in for a YLOD
>>721143478The media server allowed you to play files from your computer by having them stream to the PS3 over your local network. You didn't have to transfer the files, you just had to have them in a folder on your PC that the PS3 could access.Music, pictures, and videos were the most common things you'd use it for, it was great for watching the show you just downloaded on a big screen across the house and you didn't need to copy the files or whatever, it just worked. Same with music on your PC that you could now have play out of your stereo system.It might not sound impressive now that phones and Smart TVs exist but back then it was awesome.
>>721155348Oh yeah it was actually pretty cool. This is a case of lost technology or rater omition of technology because now more than ever it's easier to do this. We have lost so much
>>721141732it ain't gonna last long unless it's modded
>>721129737i kneel
>>721156590Everything was contained within your own little ecosystem, now that every company wants to harvest customer data it's not a model that they're going to want people using.
>>721138563It had MGO2
>>721146230It didn't. It was just easier to develop for.
>>721156852>perfect mix of convenience and privacyI wonder if we'll ever see people return to using something similar.
>>721157056Yes, it did. It had unified memory as well as more powerful gpu and faster cpu as well as extra fast eDRAM. It was better all around, the only reason you believe ps3 was stronger is because of Sony's marketing.
>>721124950I agree with the hot take in the pic. I have been saying this in a few threads so glad I see someone actually acknowledging it. We took the launch of PS3 for granted. In fact I would spend this much for a brand new one right now if I could be assured it wouldn't break down and it had even bigger storage for all my games but also kept the backwards compatibility of the fat models.The only part he got wrong is that its actually not fully backwards compatible .There is a few games that don't work right on it but from what I understand its a very small percentage. Might be something like less than 1% of games but can't say for sure. One noteworthy game that seems to have problems is Silent Hill 2. I remember seeing a video where James leg constantly disappears for whatever technical reason I can't explain.
>>721124950I had just bought a 8800gts before this released. I was laughing at how weak this thing was.
>>721143434The only people making actual minimum wage were 14 year olds working a couple hours a day after school. I worked at McDonald's for about 6 months in 2006, I made $7.55/hour with zero previous work experience. Then I moved to Kroger, where I made $9.15/hour, nearly double min wage as an 18 year old.
>>721132205How many people opened the UMD case thinking they need to get the disc out?
>>721124950it's kind of remarkable how the passage of time causes everything to undergo history revisionism
>>721124950>graphics synthesizer u wot
>>721124950Watch as Sonybrothers excuse Sony for putting the PS6 for >U$1000 in the next few years
>>721127553that case was landmark btw
>>721124950Objectively it was a "good value" in terms of the wide variety of multimedia features at the time. The issue is that most people didn't want or need all the extra stuff, so the "value" was wasted and wasn't actually valuable to most. Think of it this way. Imagine you can buy two games, Animal Crossing and DOOM, separately for 50 bucks each. Or there's a combo bundle deal where you buy both for a total of 80. The bundle is objectively the better value because your price-per-game is lower. But if you only want DOOM and have absolutely no desire for Animal Crossing, going for that "deal" is just wasting 30 dollars for nothing. So yeah. Back in 2006 a standalone bluray player might have cost far more than a PS3, so even just getting a PS3 for the ability to play blurays made is a good value. But if we're just talking about a pure gamer who doesn't care about bluray movies or card slots for digital cameras or 4 USB ports or any of that bullshit, then it just ends up being a really really expensive video game console.
>>721125294Mine is still alive and these days there's a pricy fix to many of these. I'm happy to have mine. An hdmi ps2 that plays digital games is great man.
>>721130389>PS3 and 360 seems like the last time a console was doing things their predecessors couldn’tOne thing I think people here never consider is the screenshot/record function modern consoles have. Consoles didn't have that prior to PS4 and Xbox One (or they did in a limited capacity that was very rarely used).Unfortunately as a feature it constantly gets mischaracterized as a "looool it's a facebook button" thing but I sincerely think the standardization of the ability to screenshot and record gameplay on consoles without even considering streaming. It allows people to record meaningful moments to them. If you found something ultra rare or special in a game, you can record it. If you beat some super special challenge or time trial, you can record it or screenshot your score/victory screen. I loved shiny hunting in Pokemon as a kid and you had to take photos of your screen for that shit if you even had a camera available. Now you can get clean direct screenshots of it if you want and I love that.
>>721125294>YLODThe phat and the Xbox 360 used an early mix of (((ROHS compliant))) non-lead based solder on their motherboards. This shit is guaranteed to fail after multiple heat-cycles.
>>721163254people were recording gameplay on vhs tapes forever though, it got rid of the extra device needed to do it but it's not exactly new.
>>721124950i want one of these so bad for my physical ps2 games but I know they overheat and break and i dont have the skills to modify/repair the system when that happens. they are like $300 in my prefecture
>>721124950I went out of my way to purchase a PS2 native BC PS3 after it was discontinued back in the day after it was discontinued (it was used and cost more than new). I played 75% PS1 & 2 games, and I don't regret it. I still have it and it still works, but after the PS4 generation, I gave up on console gaming and my PC is good enough to be a PS3. Hell, I think even a Steam Deck has good enough hardware to be a PS3, or at least powerful enough to run games "around as well as" an actual PS3.
>>721124950it was before its time in the sense that it launched with all sorts of bells and whistles save for a single game that was worth buying the console for.
>>721124950>broke in a year>no games>BC didn't even work
>>721131330>be poorfags>only had a PSP>needed a fucking PS3 to play multiplier games on a PSPI couldn't even get my parents to get me a good router for xlink kai or however you spell it.
>>721124950>No games for years >$600To be fair, the Wii was a meme and the 360 was a piece of shit that cooked itself within 12 months.
>>721124950Yes, this was back when consoles weren't a burden on the gaming industry. Now all they do is hold it back.
>>721163413>people were recording gameplay on vhs tapes forever thoughThis shit blew my fucking mind when I did this as a kid.
>>721124950600 dollars sounds like a great price for a new console i dunno why boomers were such faggots about ityes id rather have the xbox360 with the red ring and paid online such a better choice /sso glad xbox is just dead now
>>721166476$600 in 2006 is $900-950 today, megamind
>tosHlink??????? I hate zoomers man
>>721166476it was 2-3x as much as the previous generation's consoles cost at release.
>>721166690600 dollars is still 600 dollars>>721166859it also has 3x as much power the as previous generation console
>>721166476This might shock you, but gaming consoles gaming in general is and should be for kids. $600 was a hard ask. I ended up getting a 20gb model and don't regret it. It's still alive and is a great hdmi ps2.
>>721166396Recording the radio with blank cassette tapes felt like a hack too.>call up radio station to request song>get cassette ready>record it>free music
>>721167432kids are retarded and only play slop on phones or internet i dont care about them i hope they all die
>>721167363you can't do a price-per-performance across generations like that. By that logic modern consoles should cost 100x as much as a PS2.
>>721125294no rumble? I could of sworn MGS4 had rumble. I recall scenes where if someone touched snake during cutscenes the controller would have a slight jitter
>>721167669yes you can if you only do it for the last gen
>>721149261Only skyrim iirc
>>721135568retard
>>721167568that's somewhat an outcome of how jewy the market has gotten for consumer goods. Computers, consoles, vidya games, hell even toys like legos, are all now so expensive that their original target audience (kids) can no longer afford any of them. They all market toward adult manchildren instead, at the expense of kids.
>>721167686At launch there was the sixaxis. Not even a year later they introduced the dualshock 3. Funnily enough the sixaxis controller is a work horse. I've had many dualshocks die on my but my sixaxis is still working.
>>721167815makes sense considering kids dont want that shit no morethey just want robuxwhy market towards them then? youd be better off only selling nostalgia to manchildren and collectors
>>721137752lasers n shit
>>721124950in the sense that it was a media playing machine rather than a console it was, I suppose, in the same way the PSP was when it came out
>>721142385i liked itno annoying rumble and better battery life
>>721124950No games.
>>721167881I would say it's a self-feeding issue. Kids wants mobileslop because the only thing their parents are willing to afford them are 5 dollar mobilegames/free2play slop on hand-me-down tablets/phones. And they want these things because it's all they can get in the first place because they can't afford actual consoles or toys, because they're all overpriced and catered toward adult manbabbies. Manchildren make for a more lucrative target consumer base.
>>721143478aka anime
>>721163413dsp...
>>721167881enshitification of entertainment
>>721155113You can pay for that now if something happens to it.
>>721168196Lol the western anime fan consumes low bit rate shit. Dvd and blu rays are where it's at.
>>721168173have you ever played roblox yourself? kid me would have been insanely addicted to it and never wanted to play anything elseiam somewhat glad i got to grow up before shit like this came oh and kids could just play older consoles from their relatives or parentsi still played my cousins sega genesis way into the ps2 gen because that was all i had for the time
>>721126843I bet you have an RTX Pro 6000 in your rig.
>>721168584Roblox is just the f2p mmo equivalent these days. Instead of there being tons of f2p mmos like Tibia, Runescape, RO, and a billion Korean games, they just have different Roblox game modes they hop between now. It's really not too different other than it being centralized to a single game but once WoW dropped, you had people that only ever really played that. There's WoWfags that have played 20 years straight.
>>721168584You can easily sink 10k hours on lol dota or cs for free or almost free
>>721124950amazing how none of those things really mattered
Pee ess three.https://youtu.be/GqQuhMwkrA4?si=wdsZe6jtWMhYsY3m
>i'm running Evilnat 4.92 on my G model phat PS3, G model is stripped down but the first 65nm revision, doesn't have the YLOD issue, full FTP into the console and upload any game I want, great for PS1, tons of PS3 exclusivesfeels good bros
>>721124950I say this a Sony guy, the X360 as a gaming console was superior than the PS3. And I'm not talking about the games or the PS3's free online, the X360 was objectively the superior gaming system and it shows when Sony went and made the PS4 more like the X360 rather than the PS3.The X360 had unified memory and bigger Gpu while the focus of the PS3 was the Cpu. The Cell was innovative, exotic and on paper way better than any other Cpu at the time, including PC Cpu's, but it was harder to deal with, so the benefits were null. And even when utilized at its best the system still had to deal with a heavy memory bottleneck and a Gpu that wasn't on to par either.Objectively speaking the PS3 was an horribly designed system not really meant for gaming and that's why Sony made the PS4 more like the X360 instead of the PS3. The PS4's focus was on bigger Gpu and unified memory just like the X360. A more boring system on paper but a system specifically designed for gaming.
>>721124950No paid online as well.We didn't know how good we had it
>>721131447No shit. Retards like to shit on the 7th gen and say it was completely horrible (although I will say the cracks of the decline were showing in both gaming and in general), but at the end of the day, it was the last generation of games that represented a real improvement on the previous one in general and the last time AA gaming (which was what made gaming great in the first place) had a significant positive impact on gaming before so many studios were shuttered or absorbed into larger AAA corporations of dubious game quality.There have been good games here and these since, but it's the last time you could pick up a game and have it reliably be somewhere between decent to great.
>>721171170i had both and loved both for different reasons, i never saw them as competing with each other, wish i hadn't sold my X360, then again it probably would have RROD'di was in the navy and we used to setup massive Halo LAN tournaments at sea, X360 helped normies break into FPS, especially the LAN aspect of FPS gaming which was largely a PC thing beforei think Sony could have done more to encourage developers to adopt their SDK, still we got good games and today the PS3 homebrew/CFW/hacking scene is alive and well, really a GOATed console for maintaining PS1/PS2/PS3 libraries on a single system
>>721171829ah yes real improvement with fluid 15 fps and brown bloom outta the assother than little big planet + mod nation racers that entire gen was horrid (only talking about ps3 and xbox360 of course)
>>721124950720p was ahead of it's time
>>721168449Its cost like 400 bucks
>>721124950No games
>>721129970I liked that earth thing aswell but was also disappointed as the earth image was too low res
>>721124950No. It was at the end of it's time. It was the ultimate value in terms of being a universal media player. You can tell the engineers really cared about putting the maximal amount of features into it, which used to be Sony's design philosophy, and generally how tech companies approached new products. After doing so, they realized that consumers didn't want feature loaded products anymore, and weren't willing to pay a premium for them. They just wanted the cheapest shit possible that played games. The recession in that era permanently buck broke the US consumer into wanting cheap, soulless garbage.
>>721124950PS3 was on the verge of declineThe console had good games but compared to the PS2 they were far less, still the console was worth it
>>721125294You forget>Controller no has support in PC.>Sixaxis only has four axis, because patents>Controller is too small
>>721176921>controllerYou were saying?https://github.com/nefarius/DsHidMini
>>721126541Because people cant imagine still playing ps3 games in 2025.Because spending $600 USD in drugs is better because you have chance of anal sex with you drug dealer
>>721125458>>721167686I got in 2008 the cucked 40G GTA IV bundle and got the controller without vibration, called Sixaxis (the only upside was that it was very light compared to the DualShock 3).
>ignoring inflation / buying power>getting jazzed about SD card slots>Spells TOSLINK wrong because they clearly never used it
>>721174238the PS3 xmb UI was so functional and customizable, PS4 was downgrade and PS5 even worse
yes. it was easily the best console. it had a ton of storage expansion options while supporting ps1 and ps2 games. nothing about it was flawed besides people being too poor to buy it and the cell processor was very convoluted in its design and implementation.
>>721167363Are you fucking retarded?
>>721125310More games then the 360. And more variation in games. I dont understand why this meme is still alive.
>>721132240From what I've seen from over a decade of observation on /int/, "should of" and "could of" is mostly a native speaker error due to the way people pronounce "should've" and "could've".
>>721180892iam the smartest person on earth
>>721124950Only bad part was it bricked easily
>>721129737What game is she playing here?
>>721124950>they didn't try to steal people money and actualy sold for what it wasno shit sherlock, Aple had like 10 consumer at this time too before all this shit took off
>>721137752Optical audio (it only does up to 5.1 surround and even then it uses lossy compression so the sound quality is ass) (HDMI is a better audio interface)
