I never had a PS3 back in the day. I have a PS5 now, and when I was looking at the PS+ packages, I was fascinated by the fact that all the PS3 games have to be streamed. And what’s more, relatively few PS3 games are even on the service. I didn’t realize that the PS3 was such a unique/powerful console, that it still apparently can’t be properly emulated even on a PS5.
I am interested in playing Final Fantasy 13, the Killzone series, Resistance Fall of Man, among others. Looks like a PS3 can be had for about $120 at my local game store.
Do others still have and use their PS3? Does it still connect/interface to Sony’s online service? Like can I still get trophies that connect with my PS account, buy DLC, etc? Or is all that shut down?
I do have an Xbox Series X, so I could play FF13 on there, but none of the other games.
(Hopefully this kind of post is ok here, I know it’s not gaming news, but just trying to not sit and lurk, but actually create discussion)
From an architectural design standpoint, the PS3 is kind of fascinating. It’s impressive how good many of its games still look today.
As you can imagine, while the multi-core design of Cell accelerates emerging techniques such as procedural generation, none of these designs are particularly simple to implement, especially considering game studios prefer codebases that can be shared across different platforms. […]
It appears that even with a supercomputer chip, Sony still had to fetch a GPU to finalise the PlayStation 3. This makes you wonder if IBM/Sony/Toshiba hit a wall while trying to scale Cell further, so Sony had no option but to get help from a graphics company.
Unless you only plan on playing just a couple of specific games (in which scenario I’d recommend using rpcs3), I think a ps3 could be a cool investment.
The console itself is easily hackable and pretty good at emulation
and piracyIt’s got a ton of amazing games and might even run quite a lot of ps2 games.You could probably find one for even less than $120 so if you have some money you want to spend on games a ps3 is totally worth it
and piracyYou mean all the backups that I have of PS3 games from the console I never had? ;)
Ah yes of course, all legally ripped from legally purchased discs
I’ve got a PS3 that I haven’t touched in years if you want it! Was thinking of just donating it somewhere. In Canada.
Oh man that is so generous of you! I wish I had seen this earlier, but I already bought one locally off of Facebook marketplace. Donating it is a great idea though, especially if you can find some charity that works with kids. Rock on.
