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>>7460336357th gen was literally the peak of gaming and PS3 was far and away the best console of that gen. 360 was only on top for 2 years but PS3 mogged it into the dirt from 2008-2014
It was Ken Kutaragi at his most unhinged, thinking PlayStation was untouchable so he designed what he felt was the ultimate gaming system. He originally didnt even want a GPU he wanted the CPU to handle the graphics too. A shame so few devs cracked its esoteric design. They dont make vanity projects like this anymore.
It wasn't. Devs just made it work. Heavy Rain, Killzone 2 & The Last of Us. The rest on it isn't much.It's missing 2 SPUS, it's RAM isn't unified and it's resolution is too high.It would have won the 7th gen if it stuck to 240p through composite.
There are more 360 games I would sooner play than anything on the no gaymez station III.
>>746033475worst console ever. It tried to do too many things at once, famously hard to optimize for, all of the best IPs of the previous generations sucked on it (Final Fantasy, Metal Gear, WAY OF THE SAMURAI), it was heavy and heat too much.It has almost no redeeming quality.
>>746033789Anyone who claims that a David Cage game is among the positives on a console is clearly deranged
>>746033862>tried to do too many things at once,And succeeded at them. Seriously such an incredible console, insanely powerful and really great value especially compared to the shitbox and wii
>>746033475Fixed.
>>746033789incorrect my good sir> “[But] that skill set and expertise didn’t really translate into the console experience. And then when you got to PS3, and you had the Cell processor, and how do you code for that?> And it was no longer an upgraded arcade experience, it was a high-end PC experience you’re offering at home. And I think that’s where the disconnect came for a lot of Japanese developers. And Japanese developers have been struggling ever since to try to get back to the top of the top of Olympus.”> In saying this, Layden is certainly dropping some criticism of Sony’s decision making at that time. Of course, many PlayStation fans have fond memories of the PlayStation 3. But if you really was a fan at that time, you lived through the early struggles of the console.> The Cell was a big problem for developers, and not the only one. Sony overpriced the console, faced a scandal over misleading marketing, and failed to deliver a consistent launch lineup. The truth is, a lot of fan memories for the console revolve around the latter half of its lifetime, years after Xbox 360 secured market dominance over them.> Layden pointed out that Japanese game companies like Capcom, Koei Tecmo, Sega, and others struggled very hard to adjust to the demands of the HD generation, and the specific issues of the PlayStation 3 complicated things further."> https://gameranx.com/updates/id/514704/article/shawn-layden-ps3-was-a-struggle-for-japanese-devs-like-japan-studio-who-suffered-from-legacy-malaise/
>>746033976« PS3 was Sony's Icarus moment. We had PS1, PS2... and now we're building a supercomputer! And we're going to put Linux on it! And we're going to do all these sorts of things! We flew too close to the sun, and we were lucky and happy to have survived the experience, but it taught us a lot. And going to PS4, we learned things like: buy it, don't build it, if you can. You can manage the cost better. You can argue with vendors, get better deals instead of building your own thing. »https://www.eurogamer.net/the-big-playstation-30th-anniversary-interview-with-shawn-layden-it-was-a-fight-to-get-the-sony-name-on-the-machine-they-didnt-want-to-be-associated-with-it
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>>746033475Better on paper than in practice. The CELL was powerful, just hard to develop for, so many games received inferior, sometimes outright broken ports. PSN was always down, even if it was free. It had some good games like MGS4, but not many to buy the console for. Probably the worst console of that gen when looking at the quality of ports and stability of the experience.But despite being less avant-garde than the Wii, it still marked an experimental phase for Sony. You had games like Folklore and Puppeteer: not exactly smash hits but they were different from your God of Wars or your Uncharteds. LittleBigPlanet was also fun, and PlayStation Home had soul. I had one and I liked it, but I preferred my Xbox 360. And as I age, I'm slowly starting to appreciate the Wii more than I did back then. Still, I liked the PS3, despite its flaws.
>>746033475lack of gamesyou went outside and enjoyed life
>>746037265This post is so fucking delusional and out of touch. It would make sense in 2006/07 but even by 2008, PS3 was dusting 360. More reliable, more powerful, better games, free online, great price, blu-ray players, tons of killer apps. Wii was a piece of shit and was clearly the worst, just downright embarrassing library looking back, and the few good games, many are ruined by waggleshit
>>746033721>7th gen was literally the peak of gamingWhat did you play during that gen that makes you feel that way?
>>746033635More games than the Pii and Shitch combined
>>746033475>>746033635WDYM?
>>746034489In other words, it was pure sovl
>>746039165coping tendie meme, the wii was a nogames shovelware machine lol
>>746038064>More reliableRelative to the 360, sure, but that isn't a high bar when the 360 had something like a 55% failure rate. YLOD seemed pretty prevalent on the fat models relative to prior Sony consoles.>more powerfulOn paper sure, but that really only manifested in 1st-party titles or games that were built for the PS3 first. The majority of multiplats ran worse on it because it was so much different than the 360, so most games that gen were built on 360 first and then ported to PS3. There are a few PS3 exclusives that were extremely impressive, but the majority of games that gen were multiplats, and the majority of multiplats ran like shit.>better gamesSubjective. This was the era when Sony went firmly into movie game territory with Uncharted and Last of Us, and their second-party devs that used to make colorful 3D platformers with imaginative gameplay started making gritty urban games instead (Sly Cooper to Infamous, Jak & Daxter to Uncharted/TLOU, Resistance Fall of Man, etc.) If you liked 3D platformers these were a massive downgrade.>great priceOnly after the slim model which removed things like hardware backwards-compatibility and Linux support, and even then the price was the same as the 360, which played the majority of releases with better performance.>blu-ray playersIrrelevant when talking about games.>tons of killer appsName them.
>>746038064>2008>More reliable>more powerfulThe biggest games of that year ran like ass on the PS3. Grand Theft Auto IV ran sometimes 10fps lower on PS3 than it did on 360 and crashed often. Fallout 3's port was so bad that the more you played, the more the game crapped out on you due to bloated save files hogging up the PS3's ram. >better gamesAbsolutely not. What world was Resistance 2 and SOCOM better than Gears of War 2 and Fable 2? >great priceThe Xbox 360 and the Wii were still cheaper.>blu-ray playersBlu-rays have never been more than an enthusiast format. Most people, especially in 2008, just bought DVDs because they were massively cheaper, and the 360 could play DVDs. >Wii was a piece of shit and was clearly the worst>Radiant Dawn>The Last Story>Metroid Prime 3>No More Heroes>No More Heroes 2>Xenoblade Chronicles>Trauma Team>Harvest Moon>Resident Evil 4 (best version at the time with motion controls)The Wii mogged the 360 and PS3 into oblivion.
>>746039660>The Wii mogged the 360 and PS3 into oblivion.>posts list of utterly forgettable dogshitThe Wii was a gimmick garbage shovelware machine. I'm sorry you were stuck with it and missed out on every good game from this generation
>>746033635It had the best game of the decade.
>>746036617stolen valor
>>746039660>>Radiant Dawn>>The Last Story>>Metroid Prime 3>>No More Heroes>>No More Heroes 2>>Xenoblade Chronicles>>Trauma Team>>Harvest Moon>>Resident Evil 4 (best version at the time with motion controls)>The Wii mogged the 360 and PS3 into oblivion.It mogged it and proceeds to scrape the bottom of the barrel just to name some of the most mediocre games and a port.Bravo on proving his point, its library is shit, a fraction the size of PS3, underpowered, and trash controller gimmicks
>>746039660GTA IV on PS3 and 360 have pretty similar performance, plus PS3 has the superior lighting and color palette, and the GTAIV Complete Edition contains both DLCs on disc and doesn't have the dozens of songs removed like 360 and all future ports. PS3 is the best way to ppay GTAIV outside of maybe heavily modded PC version.Also many games on PS3 run better at 720p, they have better input lag and performance at native resolution, and a lot of games with tearing or performance issues run fine at 720p. There's really only a handful of 1080p native PS3 games that don't have a superior 720p mode, Rayman Origins is really the only one of note outside of a couple indies and irrelevant launch titles.
>>746040582>>746041195What "big" games did the PS3 have other than:>brown and bloom shooters (not called Gears of War) like Killzone and Resistance>Halo knockoffs like HAZE>OTS TPS slop like Uncharted, The Last of Us>Legacy shit like Gran Turismo and God of WarI was being charitable before by listing actually good games like LBP and MGS4, but none of those games even come close to Halo 3, Gears of War 2, Xenoblade, Super Mario Galaxy, or the other deep cuts I've mentioned. It was just never worth buying a PS3 solely for MGS4 or smaller niche Japanese games like Neptunia or Tokyo Jungle. A lot of the actually good Jap games came later in the PS3's life cycle because Japs never moved to the PS4 before like 2019, and Japs all moved to the Switch later that decade.
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>>746042180Demon's Souls, God of War 3, TLoU, MGS4, Uncharted 2, Killzone 2, LBP1+2, infamous 1+2 are absolutely on that tier. PS3 also had a ton of smaller/experimental games.
>everyone listing all these argumentsBayonetta.
>>746033789It DID win the 7th gen. 360 thought they'd win so they stopped caring in the later half. PS3 outsold them.
>>746042229No one takes you seriously because the PS3 library is 4x the size and better games to boot>resistance fall of man>ridge racer 7>motorstorm>uncharted 1>ratchet and clank tools of destruction>ninja gaiden sigma>warhawk>folklore>heavenly sword>littlebigplanet>metal gear solid 4>wipeout HD>resistance 2>valkyrie chronicles>motorstorm pacific rift>everybody's golf 5>disgaea 3>siren blood curse>naruto ultimate ninja storm>uncharted 2>killzone 2>demon's souls>flower>ratchet and clank crack in time>infamous>ninja gaiden sigma 2>katamari forever>way of the samurai 3>god of war III>heavy rain>gran turismo 5>modnation racers>yakuza 3>3d dot game heroes>MAG>uncharted 3>littlebigplanet 2>killzone 3>resistance 3>infamous 2>disgaea 4>yakuza 4>motorstorm apocalyse>tales of xillia>journey>tales of graces >yakuza 5>yakuza dead souls>way of the samurai 4>tokyo jungle>tales of xillia 2>everybody's golf 6>the last of us>ni no kuni>dragon's crown>dead nation>super stardust hd>gran turismo 6>god of war ascension>puppeteer>rain>drakengard 3
You were 12 when it came out.
>>746044276So 32 years old? And what are you? 40?
>>746033475PS3 is my all time favorite, fuck the Wii. Wii was the most disappointing thing in my entire life. PS3 could play>TekkenTag2>Marvelvscapcom3>Tokyo Jungle>InfamousMy entire PS1 library + stuff I bought for cheap on the store like>Klonoa door to phantomile>Resident evil 2>Silent hill>SotN>Mgs1,2hd,3hd,4 and peacewlakerHD>Ground Zeroes>Oblivion tes4>Uncharted 2>Cod4 and mw2 which rocked actually>Arkham asylum and city>Rockband2 +>Miku games>The Last of Us 1 (was impressive and not cringe woke at the time)>Grandtheft auto 4>Red Dead redemption>Bioshock 1>Shadow of the Colossus HD>Gran Turismo 5+6 (sort of a weak era for GT admittedly)>CatherineWorms bomberman FEAR deadspace just all kinds of shit, everything you could want>But 360 can play half of those!I don't care I didn't have one because they kept red ringing and were a joke by the time I retired the Wii and stopped being a Nintendo fanboy.The question becomes, what does the 360 have?>The only good version of Sonic Unleashed>Halo 3 and reach>The better versions of Skyrim and New VegasI mean hey, that's cool. But I caught up when I got a PC so I could mod Bethesda games. Playing thru the Halos now on PC theyre certainly fun but like Gears? More like queers
7th Gen was the beginning of the enshittification of console gaming.
>>746033475Gotta have a Frankenstein mod of the fat model or else your shit will get YLOD
>>746044868>Gotta have a Frankenstein mod of the fat model or else your shit will get YLOD>500$+oy vey
>>746033475It has about 17 games worth your time that make it a reason to own the console.3 of those being Sega AM2 games which were a nightmare to get such as Virtual On and After Burner.The rest are games you could count on 2 hands and that's it. You don't get hidden gems for the ps3 like what were still finding today for the ps1 or ps2
>>746044251All of those were on 360 or are shit games.
>>746045398None of those were on 360 retard, nice to show you are clueless though
>>746045453Ninja Gaiden Sigma is literally just an inferior port of Black.
>>746033475>True exclusives>Free online>Innovative controller>Blu ray player>Japanese gemsIt was the last good console in the Xcuck vs Snoy battle. But nowadays neither snoy or xcuck are worth it, there is really no need for it, if you are a PChad, just get a Shitch Poo as secondary device.
>>746045504Literally only Way of the Samurai out of those were on XBOX360 you donkey.
>>746044251How many people actually care about Folklore or Journey today? The only times I actually see these games is when people are charging over $100 in 2026 for them because no one bought them during their heyday. Meanwhile XC1 and SMG come out on Switch/Switch 2 and everyone's talking about them. Just goes to show that the PS3 had nogaems.
>>746045504It has literally hundreds of changes retard.Post MNM clear poser faggot
>>746045871>I live in a tendie bubble and I don't see anyone care about xLolNot to mention you picked the most obscure picks from PS3 while picking the biggest pick from Wii outside of like SMGEither way you slice it, PS3 has WAY more quality and quantity than Wii.
Everyone talks about the RROD on the 360 but this thing was built even worse. I owned 5 and none of them still work. Backwards compatible launch model overheats, non-backwards compatible fat started shredding discs when inserting or ejecting, and then one slim started overheating while two others stopped reading discs. If I hadn't gotten 4 of them for free through a glitch in HMV's rewards points system where it was giving me hundreds of times more points that it should have I'd have been pretty pissed.
>>746033634>The ethereal music once you enter the game selection screenI would sometimes leave it at that screen and listen to the angelic voice sing for 5-10 minutes. Litteral soul overload. Younglings today have no idea what they are missing.
>>746046192The phats have a design flaw but the slims last ages
>>746033475Giant enemy crabs in historical battles.
>>746046286I meant this for the jailbroken version https://youtu.be/UukrfHmWmuY
>>746044993Yep. I think there's a tutorial on how to make one, but it looks like a big waste of time.
>>746046374Could even use the ps2 classic emulator for a handful of ps2 games last I checked.
>>746049268>Yep. I think there's a tutorial on how to make one, but it looks like a big waste of time.All three options cost absolutely several times more than a well kept, undervolted and properly set BC.
>>746033475Even though xbox could run games better, ps triple won because of blu ray, the dualshock that had rechargeable battery, its console's multimedia capabilities, and its FREE internet. Also the Evil Nat cfw unlocks the console's full potential which is great
>>746033475I wish they retained the backwards compatibility for PS2 games on all models of PS3. But even without it the console still beats the Xbox 360 despite not having as good exclusive games.
>>746033721This.4 usb in front, Blu-ray, Bluetooth, wireless chargeable controllers, Wi-Fi, HDMI, assortment of card readers under hidden compartment, CELL Broadband Processor, Native backwards compatibility, free online, PS home, PS plus when it was a plus and not entrance blocking half a game you pay for. Warhawk, Twisted Metal, Uncharted 2, Infamous, Resistance 2, Motor Storm 2, Killzone 2, MAG, GOW Ascension PvP arena, etc.
>>746039641>The majority of multiplats ran worse on it because it was so much different than the 360That stopped being true after a few years. In the early days the overuse of UE3 gave the 360 an advantage because it was an engine built from the bones of 360 games after all. But what Tim Sweeney desired most was money and he would get that money from providing an engine that PS3 devs wanted to use, not from playing ideologue. So major effort was put into figuring out why UE3 ran like trash on PS3 and not only did they figure it out, they even found ways to use that extra power. For instance PS3 ports often had more detailed shadows because those extra shadow passes were "free" thanks to the comically underutilised Cell.The "better on 360" was also often overplayed. 360 games were allowed to run without vsync where Sony were very anti-screen tearing. So when consoles missed their render targets the 360 could graph better averages even though in practice both consoles were still missing the mark by roughly the same amount.
>>746053198Can you give examples of UE3 games that ran as well or better on PS3? It wasn't limited to UE3 either.
>>746033475it was a fat piece of shit
>>746033475You can set it up as a Linux desktop
>>746052662>Native backwards compatibilityonly on the fat models that had worse failure rates than the 360
>>746033475Sony scrambling to get favour back by releasing a buffet of different games in the second half of its life. Most creativity Sony has ever had
>>746033475literally the worst sony console
