>Outlived the Xbox 360 >Outlived the Wii >Outlived

games

They stopped being manufactured May 30th.

Sony's consoles are known for their longevity.
The PS2 lasted like three generations or something.

>>382010223
>PS3
>games
good joke.

And it lost Sony all the money they made on PS1 and 2.

PS3 cannot be considered a success.

>>382010351
yea

>>382010301
Only in Japan and New Zealand

You can still get them new from some stores and Amazon in the States

>>382010174
It was genuinely a great console that ended up with an incredible library of games and exclusives.

Before the Slim it was shit, but after that it became the best console of the generation.

>>382010308
The PS2 was a special case because it's the best selling home console ever, and wasn't discontinued until 2013 when devs finally stopped caring

>>382010402
>all
Nice meme.

Probably because the Wii had no third party support for the second half of its lifespan

The Xbox 360 while popular didn't have the support of Japanese developers, which in turn meant release rate fizzled faster

The Wii U was a joke

>>382010431
Yes anon, we know you can get stuff that is not being actively manufactured. That doesn't mean it isn't discontinued.

10 year plan baby

It was a good console, fuck you.

>>382010174
for years it functioned as a cheap bluray player.
by the time bluray prices went down, it finally got games.

She had a slow start. But pumped up plenty of "good" games by the end of its lifespam.

>>382010823
The original PS3 was ass.

With the Slim they rebranded the entire product line. They changed the design of both the consoles and the game packaging, the logo, and the marketing. If they hadn't done that then they would have been boned

>>382010308
They're also known for a long buildup. The PSP and PS3 took years to ramp up to a respectable library. The PS4 is finally there. The Vita is still waiting. It isn't that they have longevity, its that the system life doesn't really start until 3 years after launch.

The PS2 was a fluke. A beautiful, glorious fluke.

>>382011559
What was wrong with the original PS3? I still have mine and it's fine.

>>382010174
>still no gaems

PS3 is the Nickelodeon of game consoles

>>382010174
What happened is Sony continues to be shit at killing its old console lines, leading to lackluster releases for new console and shooting themselves in the foot at the beginning of the race for each and every generation.

Expect PS5 to release with no exclusives for its entire first year as well while the PS4 has a healthy stream of quality exclusives, and also multiplats between Xbone2, PS5, and PS4 for at least the first 9 months.

>>382010174
Games

Loads of PS2 remasters

Loads of non-gaming useful features like Blu Ray player, general media player, etc

>>382011926
They are just parroting shit because /v/ knows nothing about business but people here still feel the need to express uneducated opinions that they support with hearsay and memes.

The only real problem it had was that the console at launch was way too expensive.

>>382010174
Sony consoles don't get truly good until 1/3rd of the way through their lifespan. The PS4 is experiencing this phenomena right now. Arguably the only exception is the PS2, and possibly the PS1 but it didn't really get a shitload of games until 97 or 98.

>>382010308
>The PS2 lasted like three generations or something.
It received shovelware and EA Sports almost exclusively for all years following 2008.

>>382011926
Too expensive. Also prone to overheating and is loud as fuck.

>>382011926
>>382012280
No fucking good games for years, got the worst version of multiplats, fat PS3 was a monster at power consumption and also heating up, and the fact that it cost $600 alone for the non gimped model.

>>382012623
Mine never had overheating issues. The OG Xbox 360 was way louder from what i remember.

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I fell for the Wii meme in 2006.

Stopped playing Wii games around late 2008, basically after Brawl let me down hard. Got a PS3 that year for MGS4. Been my primarily game console ever since.

Got Persona 5 this year for $40 after preordering and I have a lot of games on this machine. Now my collection is more or less finished, playing 3DS during the summer heat.

The PS4 is the biggest failure for game stagnation. There's nothing really "wow" outside of Bloodborne. Checking out any PS4 top games list or Metacritic will reveal nothing but PS3 Remasters and PC/PS Vita/PS3 multiplatforms. I doubt I'll get a PS4 at all this generation, with KH3 and FF7 Remake Episodes likely getting a PS5 port. PS4's price isn't an issue, I'm not having something that big collect dust for a single game (Bloodborne). Sony brought it upon themselves with the dude remaster obsession, glad Microsoft is giving them a fucking with the backwards compatibility program on the Xbox One. Not that NeoGAF and /v/ would ever own up to the fact Sony is by far more anticonsumer than Microsoft or Nintendo this generation.

>>382010351
(You)

>>382010413
Soap operas aren't games.

>>382010174
It's a great console. I still use mine more than my 360 and PS4 combined I think.

>>382012732
All fat PS3s eventually develop overheating issues because the thermal paste Sony uses is cheap ass quality and poorly applied. Combined with dust build up due to poor cooling design and it has to power not only the CELL/RSX chips but also a full PS2 inside, it's a ticking time bomb.

>>382012736
I like my ps3 too and I only played exclusives and ps1 titles on it. really good value either way

>>382012732
OG 360 has a louder disc drive, but fat PS3 has louder cooling fans when they rev up.

>>382012837
Guess i somehow got lucky with my fat PS3 then. I've had zero issues with it since i bought it in 2007.

>>382012984
Same with my Xbox 360 from 2005 until the GPU solder balls literally melted during gameplay.

>>382012953
yeah and the 360 had it's drive spinning constantly because lol no HDD

>>382010174
Every PlayStation has been supported for ages beyond its natural life cycle.

This is pretty much normal behavior for Sony. I guess from a business point of view, why not do it? If the console is still selling well enough to justify continued production, then everyone wins.

>>382012732
I have both. The 360 is loud due to the disc drive, while the PS3's fans are loud as balls. The disc drive is louder, but not by a huge margin. If you run games from the HDD, it's much quieter than the PS3.

>Mine didn't overheat
You aren't the only PS3 owner, m8.
>>382013053
>GPU solder balls melted during gameplay
Holy fuck. What were you playing?

>>382012705
>got the worst version of multiplats
[CITATION NEEDED]

>>382013116
That would explain it then. I always found the noise it made horrible.

>>382010174
>outlived Xbox 360
>always has been drastically inferior
Who cares. There isn't a single argument you can use to try to prove the ps3 was better. The only "good" games where updated for ps4 and no one cares about them.

>>382012736
>Wii
I'm just mad that I HAVE to use the Wii mote for so many games. I would be fine with the Wii otherwise. The best games support the gamecube controller.

Countries like Nigeria and Indonesia happened. Same thing the with PS2.

>>382013268
common knowledge you have to be a /b/ shitter

>couldn't sell better than the 360 or Wii even being on the market all that time

KEK

>>382010174
>Games
>Free online
>No gimmicky shit

>>382011847
>The PS4 is finally there.
ehhhhhhh

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hey /v/, what are some must play games on ps3?

>>382010174
I think the super slim would've looked much better with a plastic wood finish on those front & back panels. I wonder if there's stickers I can buy to get that look.

>>382013268
For starters, PS3 could barely run Team Fortress 2 because it was a nightmare to port.
Lost Planet on PS3 had massive framerate drops compared to the 360 version.
Quake Wars was missing lighting effects.
Also the reason why FF13 was one big linear corridor was because the game started development on PS3 and they were limited to 256MB of system RAM.

>>382013545

the list goes on..

>>382010174
>>Outlived the Xbox 360
microsoft made 360 backward compatible so you don't need one anymore
>>Outlived the Wii
>>Outlived the Wii U
nintendo dumped the wii hard with the wii u and dumped that even harder for the switch.

>>382013348
DeS :^)

>>382013545
Heavy Rain is hilarious. A rare example of a game that's so bad it's good.

Yakuza is pretty mental

And the obligatory demon souls mention

>>382013272
yeah me too the later elite version are a bit quieter though

>>382013545
Uncharted 2, MotorStorm: Pacific Rift, Demon's Souls, LittleBigPlanet, MGS4, Ni no Kuni, Yakuza 4 and 5.

They amassed 8 billion dollars worth of losses totaling more than the entire ps1 and ps2s profits.

It was too big a disaster to stop selling. They have been selling it to try and desperately recoup losses for years.

>>382013418
>>382013708
>handful of examples

PS3 still looked better overall though.

>>382013943
there's a long ass list somewhere you can google if you're really curious. PS3 games from 2006-2009 were inferior to the 360 versions. It wasn't until 2010+ when devs got used to the hardware.

>>382013545
The Last Guardian looks like it'll be great!

>>382013268
See: Bayonetta, EDF 2025, Fighting games across the board, Vanquish, and others. Zone of the Enders HD was another one, until it got patched. It's not uncommon for multiplatform games to run worse on PS3 than 360.

>>382012736
You did not get the ps4 because of remasters and multiplats but you got the ps3... because of remasters and multiplats?

>>382013261
I used to play Gears of War 1 and Dead Rising nonstop on my 360, then one day the system crashed at the dashboard and when I reboot it I had 3 red rings of death.

Doing the towel trick temporarily revived it, but it died again a few hours later. Ended up selling it to Gamestop and getting a PS3.

>>382010174
>Outlived the Xbox 360
360 rushed into the market and enjoyed the market propagation of early adopters to HD, good start, but with only 1 worthwhile exclusive in its library it stood no chance in the long run
>Outlived the Wii
the Wii, which was already outdated hardware by their release date's standards
>Outlived the Wii U
the Wii U which needs no introduction as to why it was a failure, was released as an attempt of finally bringing Nintendo up to par to that generation's hardware standards, making it a financially dubious investiment to most consumers and therefore tricky to gain momentum in the market (literally the absolute opposite of the early market presence, that the 360 profited from) plus, it mustered barely more than 10 total exclusives worth playing

>>382012034
Criticize them all you want, but it clearly works considering they almost always quadruple what Nintendo makes in sales.

>>382010174
It's hard to say it's alive when it doesn't get any games. It's like saying the Wii U was alive just because it received Zelda in 2017

>>382014798
the first x360 didn't had a HDMI port though

>>382015081
persona, fifa, and blazblue are pretty big deal

>>382014179
but vanquish ran better on ps3

>>382015278
Vanquish on 360 had less framerate drops, but the PS3 version had less screen tearing. Which one is better is up to you.

>>382015196
Is it really? PS3 can't even keep a stable frame rate for a game like Persona 5, not to mention the tearing.

I swear the people on this board purely hate sony only because Xbox is kiling itself, nintendo is literally retarded and PC hasnt be relevant in ages.

You faggot need to adjust your jealousy.

the PS3's still somehow getting new games while both the X360 and Wii are dead.

http://www.ign.com/games/upcoming/ps3?filter=latest

>>382015551
framerate is fine in persona, I played the ps3 and ps4 versions myself.

>>382015925
Are those digital or import only??

>>382017372
Some of them are.

>>382012736
I bought a Wii because my Gamecube was stolen a few months prior, and since it was fully BC I thought it would be worth it.

Too bad it had literally no games. The Wii Channels were comfy as hell though

>>382015551
The only thing different between the PS3 and PS4 versions of P5 is that the the PS4 version runs at a better resolution and has faster load times. Otherwise you're not missing out on anything

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>>382012736
The remasters are a catch-22. If they're actual remasters instead of outsourced-to-china-cash-ins, they're great. As for comparing them to backwards compatibility? It shouldn't be a competition, both should be there, both are nice things.

Maybe my perception is different because I'm speaking from gabencockgobbler-perspective. I'm used to having 100% BC, plus mods and things like reshade are pretty much the same as remasters on consoles these days.

>>382013053
Yup, you really had to do the xclamp fix on the phat xboxes or it was certain it would rrod.

360 and PS3 both had terrible hardware when they came out
>The 60GB PS3 had better wi-fi speeds but was an expensive blunder
>The Xbox 360 was basically a time bomb

Only difference was Sony didn't nickle and dime like Microsoft did
>Had to pay to play online
>Netflix/Amazon/Etc could only be accessed by Gold members until like 2013 despite already being sub-based services in and of themselves
>Controllers ran on double A batteries, where as Sony's were internal batteries and came with a charge cable. Plug and Play accessories cost extra
>No built in wifi until the Xbox 360 S, proprietary adapter cost $100

>>382015780
nobody's jealous, Sonymanlets just have an insecurity fueled persecution complex largely due to how bad the PS3's lineup was until like the last 6 months of the generation

>>382010571
It was a special case because south america, seriously FIFA was still being made exclusively for them until 2014 on PS2.

>>382018912
PSN was shit

>>382018912
When 360 came out in 2005, there was no PC hardware like it at the time. They were using ATI's next gen GPU hardware which didn't hit PC's until 2006.

>>382018912
Sony eventually did nickle and dime consumers though. They removed software backwards compatibility for PS2 disc games so they can resell it to you through PSN "remasters". They removed linux support through a patch without telling anyone and they got sued for that too.

>>382019092
Few consoles reach a point where they're sold off to Brazilians because everyone else already owns one. Look at the Atari 2600, that shit exploded down there to the point where it wasn't discontinued until like 1992

>>382010223
PS3 has nogaems

>>382019287
It's OVER PC is FINISHED

>>382019242
it still is shit. slower download speeds than xbox live, frequent maintenance, and in some areas PS+ costs more than Xbox Live Gold.

>>382019725
iirc the PS2 BC was via each unit having an EE chip in them, so it was hardware based rather than software

>>382020532
The early fat PS3s had actual PS2 hardware inside to achieve native BC. The 80GB fat PS3s removed some of the hardware to save costs but implemented software emulation to keep the backwards compatibility.

When the slim PS3 came out, they removed all the hardware and software emulation for disc based games. You can still play PS2 games on slim PS3 hardware if you have CFW or download their "PS2 classics" on PSN, they both still use the software emulator. SSX Tricky for example plays flawlessly on my CFW slim ps3.

Can you install CFW on the super slim PS3?

>>382020810
Nope. Attempting to install CFW or downgrading on a super slim will result in a bricked console.

There are modchips out there that will let you play pirated games and homebrew on super slims though but last I checked they're expensive and require soldering.

>>382020810
No, which is why the normal Slims are usually more expensive. The normal Slim is also more quiet than the super

The dumbest thing was despite the Super Slim being made with cheaper materials than the original Slim, it was still the same price iirc

>>382021012
They did something similar with the 3000 model slims. It looks identical to the 2000 slim model but they build it cheaper like no WiFi LED, the power/eject buttons don't glow like they used to, and the thermal paste job they do inside is sloppy so it dies on you faster so you're more inclined to buy another PS3.

>>382021012
Weird to think that PS3 sold at launch with either 20GB or 60GB and the last two models available have 250GB or 500GB, are tinier, and cost 1/3 of the price

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>>382010174
Sony actually supports their consoles 10 years. /v/ still hates them ofcourse.

After a few years into the generation I noticed the 360 was fucking dead so I got a PS3. Much fun was had.

>>382021738
Not weird at all, it's been like a decade between the fat ps3 and the super slim ps3 launches. Chips got smaller, hard drive prices went down, etc.

>>382012732

I just had 2 phat PS3s die on me within a week of one another. Goddamn shame since they were both 60GB models with the full hardware BC.

Revived them with a shitty hot air gun "Fix" so I could finish the game I was playing. Setting the fan speed manually to 60%(to delay death) was incredibly, unbelievably loud.

100% was like a joke. Why would the fan even be designed capable of that. It was worse than a leaf-blower.

>>382019242
>reassemble my PS3 recently
>load it up for the first time in years and try to download Wipeout HD
>demo downloads in about 25 minutes
>Wipeout Fury expansion takes hours to download
>actual hours
>somewhere around 3 or 4
>for a 700MB expansion
Sony, step your fucking server game up. Holy shit.

>>382010174
>What happened?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqbPANFzBgg

>>382021931
back in the day, Sony assumed that people played their PS3 in a large media room with the console encased behind something.

>>382022043
Agreed. I live in a country with good broadband speeds, use ethernet and I still get slow download speeds.

I don't care for xbox but MS has better online infrastructure.

>>382010174
>Outlived the Xbox 360
not really and the 360 came out a year earlier.

>>382013350

This is a valid complaint. Fuck that meme.

I played through most of Skyward Sword with a custom 360 pad controller mapping.

and you know what? It was oh so much more enjoyable. It was just better to play. The only thing is eventually you would run into a gimmick puzzle that could not be controller mapped around so you would have to sync up a wiimote just to do the "turn the sword in the sword puzzle slot" puzzle.

That thing makes the idea of ever playing old wii games unappealing.

>>382022373
Xbox 360 was discontinued over a year ago, and PS3s were stopped a few months ago

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>>382014070
Depends on whether or not devs bothered to figure out the cell. PS3 also had bluray which meant superior movies and audio. Final fantasy 13 on PS3 was really mindblowing at the time.

At the time 50Gb seemed like overkill. Now we know.

>>382022958
50GB still is overkill. The majority of games today are bloated full of uncompressed/unnecessary audio and languages.

If they were removed, you'd be looking at 15-20GB, 30GB max.

>>382022958
PS3 blurays could hold a large amount of data at the time which was impressive, but there was a drawback to that.

The PS3 bluray drive only reads at 2x speed which meant slow ass load times. To make it less painful, almost every large game had to do a mandatory install on PS3s hard drive when you first boot it up. MGS4 for example was literally unplayable on 20GB PS3s because you ran out of space immediately.

>>382011847
>The PS4 is finally there
hahaha
name 5 games or write a 250 word essay where you apologize for being wrong

>>382023307
>To make it less painful, almost every large game had to do a mandatory install on PS3s hard drive when you first boot it up
That explains why I've had to install so much shit. Although, even with that, I'm still lacking a lot of the 60GB I should have access to.

>>382023450
Bloodborne
Yakuza 0
R&C
Driveclub
Knack

>>382024726
>Bloodborne
Shitty 20fps cinematic experience
>Yakuza 0
Coming to PC :^)
>R&C
babby game and inferior to the original
>Driveclub
lol
>Knack
LOL

>>382010174
When you consider that it didn't get games until late 2010 the fact that it "lasted longer" makes more sense.

>>382015551
P5 is a PS3 game, don't even kid yourself.

>>382013890
>Uncharted 2,
i bought this piece of a shit WITH my console
worse money i ever throw at the garbage

>at least half of /v/ is too young to remember the PS3 launch

oh boy where do i begin
>$599 US DOLLARS
>literally *NO GAMES*
>every multiplatform game looked like absolute ass, literally running at 576p no AA upscaled to 720p while 360 was doing at that time native 720p with MSAA 2x
>PSN was down 90% of the time
>no in-game XMB
>console's fans would randomly go into LEAF BLOWER mode where it was loud as fuck
>controllers had no rumble (because rumble was a last gen feature apparently)
>waiting 10 hours for games mandatory installation

honestly aside from RROD 360 pretty much did everything right at the start while PS3 was totally horseshit

funniest thing back then was sony promised PS3 would be double as powerful as 360 and you had to pay extra for PS3 over 360, but the graphics in literally every multiplatform game were way worse, fucking hilarious

>>382027607
ahhh memories :)

>>382013268
You've got to be out of your fucking mind. If you looked at visual comparisons of games on the Xbox 360 and PS3 side by side, you'd realise that devs could better utilise the 360's hardware.

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>>382012546

>>382013835
>muffled Shaun in the distance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t0uCWjQ6Og

Has there ever been 3D console hardware that was overhyped so much but delivering so little? PS3 wasn't an improvement over 360, it actually went backwards.

At least PS2 had Gran Turismo 3, Silent Hill 2 and Final Fantasy X showing things that arguably were an improvement over Dreamcast

At least N64 had Super Mario 64 and Wave Race 64 which showed an improvement over what PS1 and Saturn could do

>>382010431
Same thing with Wii and 360 and Wii U
and NES Classic

>>382029602
Is that image supposed to prove something?

>>382022958
>50 gigs
>not still overkill
I sure love paying to upgrade my console's memory haha

>>382013268
A lot of multiplats on PS3 ran at either 540p or 640p then upscaled to 720p. They also were unlocked framerate and hovered in the 20-35fps range.
The 360 versions were usually 720p at a locked 30fps.

>>382011926
Massive, looks hideous, terrible logo design, and it is prone to a lot of hardware failures. However if you can get one in perfectly working order the perfect PS2 backwards compatibility is a great thing to have.

>>382029813
Thinking that way, not even bone or ps4 evolved drastically from 360/ps3

>>382027607
I still regret choosing LBP instead of Infamous for my free game. I don't like LBP at all. Not one bit.

>still the worst 7th gen console

>>382012827
Yeah, I get the joke

>>382030138
LBP was overrated as fuck. Game journalists sucked its dick for two reasons 1) You Can Do Anything™ bullshit hype 2) They were dying to declare 2008 Year of the PS3™ after it had no games for 2 years and cause LBP looked hipster as fuck with stephen fry's voice they heralded it as the PS3's savior

In reality LBP was so unpopular Sony had to give it away for free with consoles, nobody ever ended up making anything decent with the tools, and the core mechanics of the game (platforming) was utterly shit due to wonky physics

I seriously hope there isn't anybody left on /v/ who is still brainwashed on 2008-era game journalist tripe that LBP is a good game

>>382030559
Yeah, I didn't enjoy it at all. The platforming felt awful. At least I got Wipeout for free, though. THAT was an excellent decision on my part.

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>>382030194
how can it be the worst but have the best games?

>>382032073
ebin