That box brings back memories. What a great console! It was the last great generation of gaming. Once internet connected consoles became the norm, things started to go downhill in many ways.
I’d say the PS3 was the pinnacle of console gaming, at least with the early 60GB models. They had full backwards compatibility with PS1 and PS2 discs and DVDs while adding a Blu-ray player and internal hard drive to eliminate the need of memory cards. Access to online multiplayer and PSN was also totally free until MS showed Sony how much they could charge for the next generation of consoles. While it had its fair share of controversies like the initial price tag, PSN hack, and updating the firmware to no longer boot custom Linux OSs, it generally had the most features that any casual fan would enjoy.
About the price tag, it was the cheapest way to wath blu ray at the time.
I’d love to have o e of the ps3s that were backwards compatible.
It’s actually the only console since the nes that I never actually played.
i sold mine like an idiot. still have a slim though which we still play pretty often
I don’t live in the US, and I wonder if the used market for them are expensive here.
I’ll have to figure out what to search for.
I thought the PS3 wasn’t backwards compatible due to the weird new cell processor working differently? I remember it being a big controversy at the time.
They had the same processor used in the PS2 onboard until the next revisions cut costs and started to use software emulation to achieve the same results instead. Newer revisions then started getting rid of it altogether.
Yeah definitely hasn’t been a single good game release in the last 20 years.
Why is “DAE games suck now??” such a meme among olds? Do you only buy games made by Ubisoft and EA or something?
I didn’t say there any been any great games in past 20 years.
But to answer your question, games were released without stores to purchase cosmetics or dlcc. Games were not released in a buggy state to be patched later, there was no online requirement for single player games.
