Sony PlayStation PS3

PS3 is a great Blu-ray player IMO. Solid console, solid controller, good laser implementation. Just pop it in and it Just Works. Seeing a native Blu-ray (god I hate typing that out) on my then 1080p Panny Plasma was a sight to behold. The quality was fantastic, incredible detail and color in a dark room. I miss the console, the television, and the couch I sat on. All of that is gone. But I still remember the glory of seeing it for the first time.

It's not at all. It's really common. PS3 does it and has resumed discs I played years ago. Blu-ray is more hit or miss because BD-J mucks it all up. Titles without that tend to work, but big studio releases tend to have it so...

God I hope so. Some of my fondest professional memories were my early Navy days, hacking together PS3's into a big ol cluster

This is also what pushed me to get a PS3 later in its lifetime : getting a game console, CD player and DVD + Blu-Ray player all in one box was pretty convenient.

apparently my two primary school kids are nobodies for enjoying their PS3 or RetroArch and they don't have smartphone yet, if they do it will be heavily restricted, they can play games on PS3 or portable like SF2000, phone ain't gaming device

I personally see no reason to buy anything more than a PS4. I have a PS3 and it plays all the same kinds of games I'd want to play on a 4 or 5, with similar graphical fidelity. I have a 4, but only really have used it to play a remake of a game I can already play on the 3. I also have a vita which is used for indie games since that thing has nearly every indie game you'd ever want to play available (either officially or via homebrew)

In a few years Sony executives will be wondering why a portion of their consumer base decided to prioritize other forms of entertainment. I can speak for myself in that I’ve never upgraded past the PS3, and I feel no regrets about it.

Guess I’ll be boring and stick to my old hardware and games (PS3, Switch, GameCube, Wii, and even my SNES Classic).

Music memories are the best. I booted up my old PS3 from my uni days (20 years ago?) and found all of the music I had on it because I used it for everything at the time. Some seriously nostalgic music I'd completely forgotten about.

original Scorched Earth is only 4 years older than Worms Hard to understand for me why would anyone play this when they can play much funnier Worms. I mean I played Scorched Earth with my cousin before Worms existed, but once they released Worms why would we play it? I am still playing Worms Armageddon in 2026 with my kids on PS3 at least once or twice a week (the original graphics didn't age very well for 4K TVs), though not retro levels, they are way too small, dunno why they didn't scale them up for higher resolution.

I pulled out an old working PS3 just for this. It's the only thing in my house that plays shiny round discs

I know a lot of folk (myself included) who pretty much only bought the PS3 because of the Blu-Ray drive. I wasn't an early adopter and only bought a PS3 in 2010. In the intervening 15 years I have bought four Blu-Rays, and been given two more. I own (and watch) more VHS tapes than Blu-Rays. I sure did play a lot of GTA4, GTA5, Infamous, and Little Big Planet though.

> PS3 were price-competitive with stand-alone Blu-Ray players at launch. We got a PS3 at home for this very reason, needless to say my brother and I were ecstatic.

The PS3 was the only console I had in my life. I bought it specifically to play the original Demon Souls. I see a lot of comments here saying how underwhelming it was. And that’s probably true. But one thing always surprised me. The quality of the games for PS3 at the platform end of life were gorgeous. Developers became so good at extracting all the power from the platform (and it had some in its difficult to use way), that great things were achieved.

i was thinking similar lines. maybe i dont full understand "many-core", but the definition the article implies aligns with what i think of latest qualcomm snapdragon mobile processor for example with cores at different frequencies/other differences. also i dont understand why ps3 is considered a failure, when did it fail? in NA xbox360 was more popular (i would say because xbox live) but ps3 was not far behind (i owned a ps3 at launch and didnt get a xbox360 till years later). from a lifetime sales, shows more ps3s shipped globally than xbox.

I think a lot of people bought the PS3 as a bluray player. The charts you link to show game sales that lag way behind the xbox. For example Skyrim sold 2.6 million in 2011 on the xbox and only a million on the ps3. I only say this because I got my ps3 for free with the purchase of a Sony television at a Sony store (remember those?) in late 2009 and never purchased more than a bare handful of games which I almost never played. After the cost-reduced redesign in 2009 Sony gave away a free ps3 with every television purchase in Sony stores for almost an entire year. Skyrim was one the games I bought and it was so buggy, even for Bethesda, on the ps3 due to ram limitations (I've read) that I purchased it again for pc. Used my ps3 to watch a ton of blurays and Netflix, though. My ps3 was, and based on those yearly charts a lot of other peoples' ps3s were also, extremely powerful streaming boxes and I only retired mine when I upgraded to a 4k tv and got an appletv 4k.

Dude I'm still using my PS3. Plays Skyrim, GTA5, and all the CODs I care about. Why upgrade?

I remember being quite blown away by my first Blu-ray discs (Planet Earth series) on a PS3 connected to a 1080p plasma, well ahead of ubiquitous 4K and HDR. It was the first time source quality really made a difference to me, coming from DVDs and rips.