Games are cheap and include notable titles, it has HDMI and so looks decent on modern TVs (unlike the PS2 and Wii), it can play DVDs and Blu-Ray discs, and as the firmware isn’t being updated, you can jailbreak it without playing cat and mouse with Sony.
It helps that (most) games for it are really cheap pickups, and you can’t play a large portion of the library on modern systems. I still have a ps3 backlog.
Played Raven Softwares’ last game before being turned into a Call of duty helper studio a few weeks ago. “Singularity.” Nothing to write home about, really not worth spending time and money on a remaster but a fun weekend of a unique story (time travel sovietpunk shooter) that only cost me about 4 money’s with shipping.
There’s still a lot of fun to be found in these old boxes.
that only cost me about 4 money’s
lol
How else am I suppose to play Infamous 1 & 2, LittleBigPlanet, the best Killzone games, Metal Gear Solid 4 and 3D Dot Game Hero?
The sheer number of games stuck on PS3 is immense.
I emulated some games using RPCS3 a few months ago, was easier than I thought it would be.
Infamous 1/2 remaster please.
I suspect the number is probably higher than that, as Sony would have no way of tracking completely offline consoles or households/players that don’t/can’t connect their PS3s to the internet.
Furthermore, the 1st gen. PS3 had full backwards compatibility with PS2 and PS1 games, even the second and third generations, which switched to a partial and then full software emulation for PS2/PS1 backward compatibility, were still capable of playing the vast majority of the games (1st gen. actually had the PS2 graphics and CPU chipset soldered on the motherboard for true full backward compatibility, the second gen. started emulating the CPU, while maintaining the graphics chip and the third gen. used complete software emulation for PS2 and PS1 games).
So the PS3 was really the perfect console at the time, as it was capable of playing all PlayStation games, in addition to DVD and Blu-ray movies. I’m not surprised it has such a lasting appeal.
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The teen room at the local public library has a PS3. Kids seem to enjoy it. Although admittedly they did just get a new XBox and that’s more popular right now. But it’s also new.
Many (most?) are capable of being jailbroken with just a software hack too. I re-purchased a PS3 from a Craigslist ad expressly for that purpose. They are fun to play with once jailbroken with many interesting homebrew apps available, including emulators.
I’m on my 10th season of MLB The Show 16 and have no intention of slowing down.
Free online gaming folks, we really had it all.
Playing the Batman Arkham collection - lighting and textures are a bit low-fi but still worthy.
Kinda regret selling my PS3 slim
Does it have games, yet?
I sold mine recently because of how good RPCS3 has gotten recently. My CPU isn’t good enough to run it but will be one day.
If a game is listed as playable on rpcs3 the game is pretty flawless to emulate. But, some games like mgs4 and infamous series are buggy and don’t have good performance, so that’s when I turn to the actual hardware.
The thing with the PS3 though is most games don’t even get good performance on the original hardware. With the speed at which PS3 emulation is improving I’ve no doubt it will be THE way to play all PS3 games fairly soon.
Yeah, the games the are playable on rpcs3 are the definitive way. Playing it at 4k/60 really makes the games shine in a new way.
That is hardly going strong.
PS3 came out 17 years ago. I’m impressed it still has 2 million active users a month personally.
17? Damn it makes me feel old ._.
it is really impressive how long both ps2 and 3 lasted. i still have my ps3 so i can play mgs3!
I still use my ps2 and ps3 fairly often even though I have a ps4 and ps5 . My son is getting into gaming and he likes alot of older ps2 movie based games like toy story and ratatouille . Also just played through MGS Peace Walker in my ps3
