I love the PS3 and have been using it jailbroken for a while now, but my appreciation for it and its games has led me to establish a collection. I also did it partially so that I have more space on my SSD for installing games(yes i am buying a 1TB SSD and burning a hole in my wallet). A lot of ppl ask me, "you have spent more than thrice the price of the PS3 for its accessories, why didn't you buy a PS4." Do they know?

I think Rockstar really redeemed themselves with this title after the GTA 4 port. By the way, I was struck by how warm it looks compared to the newer versions.

Hey just to let everyone know Bad Company 2 Servers are back online as of today. Change your primary DNS on your PS3 to 165.227128.12 and then load up bad company 2 and you will be able to play again. Servers are starting to get populated again.

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I don't want to sound repetitive, but I remain very impressed by what Naughty Dog was able to achieve

I've never played a GT before so I was able to get my hands on 6, I ended up installing all 21 updates which it took hours and now I get this message! Wtf!

Think about it. The PS3 and the 360 were the last truly innovative consoles. The PS3's CELL and the 360's Xenon, those were genuinely produced processors, not pc processors that are just slightly tweaked and optimized, which is what modern consoles have. New consoles are just glorified PCs, consoles used to be a technology of their own, sure there's drawbacks to all this, and we see them throughout console history, games being harder to develop for example, that's a big one, but that also meant that developers had to put genuine love into their games, which also meant we had genuine EXCLUSIVES! I mean guys, look how they made GTA v, on what was it, 512mb of ram? Or last of us? The Uncharted series? Come on y'all. Do you think this much effort is put into games nowadays?

Obviously I'm all for games being accessible, but really? Do you guys really think gaming has become more accessible? Sure we got cross platform, that's one thing, but are you guys seeing what consoles AND PCs are going for price wise? This doesn't seem very accessible to me...

Oh and the ps6 and onwards being digital only? Boom the grave is closed, done, dead, gone. This isn't console gaming anymore. You're paying for a weak pc that has slightly optimized games and the loss these companies have you then pay with their dumb subscriptions that they know you'll buy. PS-plus, gamepass etc. If you think about it, it's similar to apple, you overpay for a technically weak product, the iPhone lets say, that has heavily optimized ios-specific apps that run perfectly well because they've been optimised specifically for their phones (just like GTA v we mentioned run on 512mb of ram, and on a pc it needed 8gb+ of ram).

And before you say "what about the 8th generation of consoles?" That was just a transitioning phase, and we got proof of that when Sony later released their exclusives on pc. Basically a slap in the face saying "Ermmm, yeah consoles are just becoming PCs now here's the proof"

Anyways, rant over, tell me your thoughts and point out if I'm terribly wrong on something.

It unfortunately has the yellow light. Kind of expected it though, as it hadn't been used in probably over a decade. Plus, it's quite dusty, though I tried to undust it.

I currently have another PS3 (a Super Slim), but this is wonderful to come across in person. Is there any way to fix it?

More photos in the replies below.

Got this in the mail today. I became aware of these variants through a post on here and ever since then I went on an ebay hunt. So hard to tap in to say MecardoLibre (latin market) without a Mexican Phone number. I bet there's tonnes on there. Anyway, I haven't seen this one in any posts so I figured I share it. Its the only Sold one on Pricecharting. For some reason its under Loose. It came cib. How are you guy's finding them? I'm Canada side so extremely hard with out Ebay

So i buy a Ps3 slim, a sony bravia tv and put some old decor. What do you think? I made it thinking in my dream bedroom back in the 2000s

Nach meiner Wolverine-PS2 ist jetzt mein zweites PS2-Projekt fertig. 😄

Eigentlich hatte ich ursprünglich vor, das Spider-Man-Design der PS5 nachzubauen. Dann wollte ich aber doch etwas Eigenes machen.

Da ich noch einige alte Spider-Man-Comics hier hatte, kam mir irgendwann die Idee: Warum nicht die komplette PS2 so aussehen lassen, als wäre sie direkt aus einem alten Spider-Man-Comic entstanden?

Also habe ich die PlayStation komplett zerlegt, gereinigt und das Gehäuse angeschliffen. Anschließend habe ich nach und nach die verschiedenen Comicseiten auf das Gehäuse aufgebracht. Danach wurde alles versiegelt und zum Abschluss mit mehreren Schichten glänzendem Klarlack lackiert.

Für die Oberseite wollte ich noch etwas Besonderes. Deshalb habe ich dort eine McFarlane-Spider-Man-Figur integriert. Damit die Figur aber nicht dauerhaft fest mit der Konsole verbunden ist, habe ich mir eine abnehmbare Befestigung gebaut. Dafür habe ich die Position festgelegt, ein passendes Loch gebohrt und eine Einschmelzmutter in den Gehäusedeckel eingelassen. Die originale Haltestange der Figur habe ich entsprechend gebogen und mit einem Gewinde versehen. Dadurch kann ich Spider-Man jederzeit montieren oder wieder entfernen.

Mir ist vollkommen bewusst, dass das Design ziemlich speziell ist und sicherlich nicht jedem gefallen wird. 😄 Aber genau deshalb wollte ich es trotzdem mal mit euch teilen.

Für konstruktive Kritik, Verbesserungsvorschläge und vor allem Ideen für das nächste Projekt bin ich offen!

Denn hier steht bereits die nächste PS2 und wartet darauf dass ich anfange sie auseinanderzunehmen. 😂

It blows my mind that after all this time, Amazon Prime is still getting updates on the PS3. Anyone else watching movies or series on the PS3?

Metal Gear 1 and 2 via the HD Collection

Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 via the HD Collection too (Or actual copies if you own a fully compatible PS3 Fat)

Metal Gear Solid 1 and VR Missions via backwards compatibility

Metal Gear Solid 4 as a former PS3 exclusive

Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker via the HD Collection again

Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain as normal releases

Bonus: I don't know if VR Missions is canon or not but I think it's a nice extra

Forgot to mention this but I couldn't find photos of the PS3 Versions of GZ and TPP together so I used the PS4 versions instead

I just wanted to play gta san Andrea's and suddenly I found this problem

I have a ps3 slim on my skoolie for playing games and bluray movies. I currently have about 100 games and 50 movies onboard. It works amazingly well and the nostalgia is priceless. I truly believe the ps3 era is when gaming peaked!

For all of you who played this absolute gem of a game, there is a petition going around that already has over 500 signatures! If we get it to 1000 and more we could possibly be bringing LittleBigPlanet back to modern consoles and maybe even a new game release if those re-releases are successful enough.

Picked this CECH 2001B up at the thrift shop today for $29.99. Tested it there and it fired up and went immediately to the set time and date screen. The cables aren't OEM but they work, and I have enough spare controllers that I could set it up with the old 720p TV for my kid to use for games and movies.

My first ever game to get 100% on. Really doable in not that crazy amount of time.

I mean, there was a LOT 😭 “Chad Warden PlayStation triple” was iconic, “the PS3 has no games,” “I have three PS3s,” the boomerang/Hulk Hogan controller, even the $599 price point became a meme. Heck, the look of the thing itself got clowned with the George Foreman grill joke, not to mention the iconic “building looks like console” meme, even though similar jokes existed for other generations. Point is, what was it about the PS3 that caused memes to go absolutely crazy? Was it just perfect timing with the internet becoming mainstream and reaching more households? Was the internet simply funnier back then, or were there genuinely just that many things about the PS3 to laugh at?

Just wondering if anyone has a perfectly working ps3 from over a decade ago that still works, bonus points if it was never repaired or you never replaced the thermal paste

I am talking about games that had mixed reviewed, obviously flawed games, had janky aspects and overall the game would be mid or barely pass as mid, yet you actually enjoyed playing them.

Mine would be:

No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise:

The game had awful FPS, over the top bike and protaginist, all enemies being the same, same scream when they die and the same damn music each level... Yet I enjoyed playing it and finishing tons of enemies by slashing one enemy only felt satisfying, the bosses were interesting and none felt repetitive either...

The world felt so lifeless, it would have been better if it was just navigating a menu to choose main mission or side missions.

Second and most recent, Captain America:

Another game with awful FPS, stiff movement, enemies feel like spaghetti with their ragdoll, they tried to copy Arkham Asylum but failed so bad, the combat isn't even close, it lacks satisfaction factor when punching enemies and pulling combos...

I enjoyed reflecting bullets mechanic, playing this game reminded me of how games were like back on PS2 days, upgrade systen was sooo barebone, you get like 3 actual upgrades by unlocking new moves which you will never use and stick with R1+square for crippling strike... And you get the "yea maybe your shield will now bounce just a bit more, lmao"

It screams PS2 movie tie game, just a shameless promo for the movie, it is like when very old people try so hard to be cool and appeal to the younger generation, hence the blatant copying of Arkham..

it really seems like it would have been a great game if it was released in that time. Wasn't too enjoyable but it had its ehhh, okayish experience with nothing special, crippling strikes was fun, reflecting bullets right in time was also fun mechanic despite how simple it was. Thankfully the game was short and doable for how average it is.