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joecanada · May 30, 2017

Fiber said:
World's most overrated console.
Tiger on the paper, kitty in real.

I still can't forget how bad red dead redemption and GTA IV looked on this console.

So, so weak. Comparising the Xbox 360.

I knew I recognized this from somewhere the whole sub 10 posts account last known for saying uncharted 4 had terrible graphics.

how can one person be wrong 100% of the time its so impressive.

PaulloDEC · May 30, 2017

Fantastic machine with a wonderful library. Still have my 80gb 3rd-gen console hooked up right above my PS4.

MastaKilla · May 30, 2017

I plugged mine in and played some NBA jam with my bro this weekend. Had some great memories on that thing!

BocoDragon · May 30, 2017

Samanosuke Akechi said:

There's never been a console this opulent, and there never will be again.

The Bose-like design that looks like something a rich middle-aged man would buy out of Stereophile magazine. The shiny chrome and black. The $599 price tag. The way it would play a string quartet when you booted up the machine. All the useless high end formats it supported (Super Audio CD, several memory card formats). Blu-ray at a time when blu-ray success was not a foregone conclusion. The 4 USB ports. The sheer goddamn size and weight of the thing...

Truly a 1%er console if there ever was one. I bought one in the launch window and it was kind of embarrassing. My girlfriend at the time was just scoffing at me as I unpacked it. "Pretentious", she accurately stated when I powered it on and the strings played.

No regrets though. As it settled into a great game machine, it was all worth it.

DISSESHOWEDO · May 30, 2017

Fiber said:
World's most overrated console.
Tiger on the paper, kitty in real.

I still can't forget how bad red dead redemption and GTA IV looked on this console.

So, so weak. Comparising the Xbox 360.

Reading your post and reading through your post history, you have a bright future a head of you!

Back on topic!
Hail to last gen's King! Still turn my PS3 Slim from time to time ( and to actually finally get ME:1 platinum).
My best drunk purchase, had an Irish friend visit me and while we were wasted he wanted to a visit a tech market. I was like, you buy whatever you want I am get me a PS3.

morpix · May 30, 2017

Still the best media machine for DLNA. Mine's still hooked up.
Please don't die on me Super Computer on a Chip.

Madchad · May 30, 2017

ElFly said:
may buy one just in case my current one dies

I am thinking the same i have quite the backlog on PS3

AndyVirus · May 30, 2017

Still chugging away through my 2012-2014 PS Plus backlog. A major reason I'm still subbed is all the PS3 goodness we got.

BigEmil · May 30, 2017

WillyFive said:
Imagine paying five to six hundred dollars for a console.

That's what they did.

The hardware and everything for the time they went all in even including PS2 hardware inside and real chrome strip and bunch of SD card readers extra usbs etc etc the price was equal to the cost of manufacturing the launch model PS3.

Then they took out alot stuff, replaced some parts with cheaper alternatives etcetc in the later models to make the price go down

BocoDragon · May 30, 2017

GearFourth said:
The hardware and everything for the time they went all in even including PS2 hardware inside and real chrome strip and bunch of SD card readers extra usbs etc etc the price was equal to the cost of manufacturing the launch model PS3

It was sold at a huge loss, actually.

iSupply estimated that it cost $840.35 to manufacture each PS3 back in 2006.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2006/11/8239/

Think of how insane that is.. a console that was selling for a full $200 more than what was considered acceptable for a console was actually losing $240 bucks on each unit!

HeartlessNobody213 · May 30, 2017

GOAT console.

Didn't pick one up until 2009 and it was the right time.

Mom got it for me on Black Friday of that year and it came with Arkham Aslyum, Infamous and a blu-ray of The Dark Knight.

Had so much fun on that system. First system I played online multiplayer on.

The only thing it was missing was Kingdom Hearts 3 and Final Fantasy Versus XIII.

MrBS · May 30, 2017

Now the wait for the last PS3 game. My guess FIFA 2020.

Marceles · May 30, 2017

RIP, had a rough start but came back in a crazy way. I still have a huge backlog of games that I'll probably never get through

Ruruja · May 30, 2017

joecanada said:
how can one person be wrong 100% of the time its so impressive.

Are they wrong though? I remember a lot of multiplatform games looked and ran better on the 360, RDR was definitely one of them.

Saying that, the exclusives the PS3 had were some of the best looking games out there. Uncharted 2 blew me away when I first played it. Still playing mine for exclusives like the Yakuza games. It's a great console and with the PS Store sales there's a lot of super games I still have to play on it.

BigEmil · May 30, 2017

BocoDragon said:
It was sold at a huge loss, actually.

iSupply estimated that it cost $840.35 to manufacture each PS3 back in 2006.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2006/11/8239/

Think of how insane that is.. a console that was selling for a full $200 more than what was considered acceptable for a console was actually losing $240 bucks on each unit!

Holy shit lol

Now the 599 US dollars is even more bargain for that piece of tech of its time

Ruruja said:
Are they wrong though? I remember a lot of multiplatform games looked and ran better on the 360, RDR was definitely one of them.

Saying that, the exclusives the PS3 had were some of the best looking games out there. Uncharted 2 blew me away when I first played it. Still playing mine for exclusives like the Yakuza games. It's a great console and with the PS Store sales there's a lot of super games I still have to play on it.

Around launch yeah but over the years devs got more used to the PS3 hardware more optimised and getting more use out of the hardware slowly then the later multi platform titles some were better on PS3

Samanosuke Akechi · May 30, 2017

WillyFive said:
Imagine paying five to six hundred dollars for a console.

That's what they did.

That's what I did and at the time I felt happy once I brought it home and powered it on. Of course the months and years that followed it took awhile to live up to the hype but it eventually paid off.

The Lamp · May 30, 2017

GearFourth said:
Holy shit lol

Now the 599 US dollars is even more bargain for that piece of tech of its time

Around launch yeah but over the years devs got more used to the PS3 hardware more optimised and getting more use out of the hardware slowly then the later multi platform titles some were better on PS3

Uh yeah I got mine for $500 in 2007 and it was still a steal. At that time, blu-ray players were way more expensive.

And it came with all the shit Xbox didn't and you had to buy separately or as a proprietary peripheral (like a fucking $100 wifi adapter and a small proprietary HDD instead of a SATA hard drive)

The Real Napsta · May 30, 2017

is PS3 still in production in USA/Europe?

ScaryShark · May 30, 2017

I really enjoyed PS3 but going back to it now the DualShock 3 was really a millstone around that thing's neck. Just an awful controller and I'm glad Sony got it so right for their next console.

HueyFreeman · May 30, 2017

Goodbye, old friend.

Sho Nuff · May 30, 2017

I have a Japanese launch unit and that fucker STILL WORKS

butman · May 30, 2017

Thank you for Demon's Souls and Ni No Kuni old beast.
So long...

Mr. PlayStation · May 30, 2017

Farewell ps3, a console that sucked the juice out of developers and not the other way around.

To those who did squeeze the hardware to max reaped the benefits though, praise sonys first party Dev teams that endured the complexities surrounding cell when they were trapped in a cell for hours days weeks months and years figuring stuff out

xabbott · May 30, 2017

I had this and a Wii last gen but mostly stuck to PC. I hated this system. It seemed like it greeted me with loading bars for everything.

The first party output was great though and even as a PC gamer, TLOU blew me away.

ChaoticBlue · May 30, 2017

i have 5 ps3s.

joecanada · May 30, 2017

Ruruja said:
Are they wrong though? I remember a lot of multiplatform games looked and ran better on the 360, RDR was definitely one of them.

Saying that, the exclusives the PS3 had were some of the best looking games out there. Uncharted 2 blew me away when I first played it. Still playing mine for exclusives like the Yakuza games. It's a great console and with the PS Store sales there's a lot of super games I still have to play on it.

By that barometer Xbox one is like a gen behind. Go back and look at the comparisons, we're talking about GTA grassgate here not 900p vs 720p

Morrigan Stark · May 30, 2017

Terrible launch, but amazing comeback. One of my favourite console simply because of the countless hours spent on Souls games.

RIP \m/

KeyBladerXIII · May 30, 2017

The orchestral start up sound was and is still amazing. I remember my first day using it and getting so excited when I first heard that.

Flower was my first PS3 game, and it was great.

Valentus · May 30, 2017

The death of PS3 also means the end of his legacy

JBwB · May 30, 2017

Farewell PS3... You had an amazing run.

I still have and will always cherish my OG 60GB model. Please don't die on me!

RCSI · May 30, 2017

Still have the OG 60gb, but I retired it early for a slim model (going on 7 years). Should still work if I clean it out. I may pick up a superslim model for the different drive bay and some longevity.

MetalGearZed · May 30, 2017

goodbye worst playstation

kuYuri · May 30, 2017

Amazing console and still has an amazing lineup of exclusives. The hype for it and MGS4 will remain legendary. Plus it was so ahead of its time, yet also far behind in other aspects. Hardware wise it was so good, but software lacked compared to Xbox 360 and it took years to catch up. It still lacked things like party chat that weren't introduced until PS Vita/PS4.

Still, the exclusives lineup makes up for the bad. It's a shame that PS4 lacks features that were standard in PS3.

BigEmil · May 30, 2017

The Lamp said:
Uh yeah I got mine for $500 in 2007 and it was still a steal. At that time, blu-ray players were way more expensive.

And it came with all the shit Xbox didn't and you had to buy separately or as a proprietary peripheral (like a fucking $100 wifi adapter and a small proprietary HDD instead of a SATA hard drive)

Oh I remember haha and also the HDDVD seperate player they sold for Xbox peripheral then HDDVD died and got replaced by Bluray as standard

FerretGamer · May 30, 2017

BocoDragon said:
There's never been a console this opulent, and there never will be again.

The Bose-like design that looks like something a rich middle-aged man would buy out of Stereophile magazine. The shiny chrome and black. The $599 price tag. The way it would play a string quartet when you booted up the machine. All the useless high end formats it supported (Super Audio CD, several memory card formats). Blu-ray at a time when blu-ray success was not a foregone conclusion. The 4 USB ports. The sheer goddamn size and weight of the thing...

Truly a 1%er console if there ever was one. I bought one in the launch window and it was kind of embarrassing. My girlfriend at the time was just scoffing at me as I unpacked it. "Pretentious", she accurately stated when I powered it on and the strings played.

No regrets though. As it settled into a great game machine, it was all worth it.

This brilliant piece of writing makes me want a fatty ps3 again, haha. I sold mine long ago for the slim, which I am still using to this day.

Agent X · May 30, 2017

PS3 had a good run. Even though the system started off on shaky footing, Sony eventually got things on track. My PS3 still sees plenty of use.

Piichan · May 30, 2017

Incredible console. Owned all models at some point, but my favorite has to be the first Slim model.

Jimm · May 30, 2017

PS3 is my favourite PlayStation by far. Love the machine, still play it weekly.
The 10 year plan was real! (11 in some countries, I'm Australian.)

Defuser · May 30, 2017

PS3...had a hard life.

I still need to track down a new PS3 tho since my phat 60 died off.

AmyS · May 30, 2017

This is how monstrously ambitious the PS3 was, years before its reveal, and even before the PS2 was released in Japan.

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1230000

Workstation effort

The Creative Workstation effort at present has three phases. For Phase 1, SCE intends to develop a workstation with about 10 times the performance of the development tool workstation, and to complete that work in 2000. The workstation will have the capability to handle graphics of 1,920 x 1,080/60p (progressive). SCE will not have time to develop new chips by 2000, so it will achieve the performance by using in parallel faster versions of the Emotion Engine and Graphic Synthesizer found in the Playstation2.

The Phase 2 workstation, scheduled to be introduced in 2002, will have 100 times the performance of the development tool workstation and will feature the Emotion Engine 2 and Graphic Synthesizer 2, each with an enhanced architecture over the current chips. The CPU will have 40 million transistors and will be fabricated on a 0.13-micron process. The workstation will handle the same 1,920 x 1,080 pixel graphics, and will have a flexible frame rate ranging from 24 to about 75 frames/second.

The Phase 3 workstation, scheduled to appear around 2005-2006, will have the Emotion Engine 3 and Graphic Synthesizer 3, which will have drastically changed architectures. As a result, the workstation will have 1,000 times performance of the development tool workstation, and will handle 4,000 x 2,000-pixel pictures at 24-to-120p. At this stage, Playstation3 will be taking a shape, Sony said.

The Phase 2 workstation will have real-time graphics production capability to handle movies, which could greatly change the movie production process, Sony said.

"We are going to raise the performance of Creative Workstations at a high pace," Kutaragi said. "So at a certain stage, it will have enough capability as a server for a mini-theater and at another stage it will have capability as a digital bit-stream transmitter at broadcast station."

Kutaragi said SCE is pursuing the workstations to support the creation of content. As such, SCE would be pleased to sell just 1,000 or 2,000 units a year, he said.

SCE and Sony together invested a total of about $1.1 billion on two fabs to establish a 0.18-micron process for the Emotion Engine and the Graphic Synthesizer. About $472 million was spent on the Emotion Engine's facility, which is a joint venture with Toshiba. About $660 million was spent on the fab in Nagasaki for the Graphic Synthesizer. "This investment will be recouped by selling Playstation2 on the consumer market," Kutaragi said. "We will continue to develop finer processes such as 0.15 micron and 0.13 micron to make chips shrink and to increase productivity."

Kutaragi said SCE's engineers have a very clear target when they develop process technology. "Process development without specific applications will make no sense," he said. "In Intel's case, it is very clear. They develop a process for a specific CPU. But even the process is fine, it makes no sense if it is developed for general purpose.

"Once such a finer process is established, we can make silicon as large as the limit of a stepper, say 20 x 20-mm or 22 x 22-mm chips. To develop such architecture is pure R&D. Pursuing desirable architecture for SCE's entertainment CPU and Graphic Synthesizer, we have a large freedom to challenge any architecture."

Kutaragi said SCE has no intention of entering the current workstation market with the Creative Workstation, but will aim to introduce the systems into the new sectors. "For example, movie theaters currently use film projectors, but in several years, they should be entering digital projectors," he said. "At that stage, servers for theaters will be a good target for our Creative Workstation." Once movie theaters are connected to backbone networks, it will be possible to distribute movies digitally to all connected theaters in one night.

"If we are pursuing future architecture, skilled, capable engineers will come to join us," said Kutaragi.

http://www.ign.com/articles/1999/11/17/ps3-will-have-1000-times-performance-of-ps2-2

demosthenes · May 30, 2017

Is there an alternate timeline where we got a PS3 without the cell?

Jigorath · May 30, 2017

The 2009 exclusive lineup was nuts. Demon's Souls, Uncharted 2, Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time, and Infamous were some of my favorite games of the whole generation and they all launched in the same year.

Northeastmonk · May 30, 2017

I didn't mind walking out of Best Buy, after signing up for a Best Buy credit card with a $600 console. Sure I had $800 of charges to pay back, but nothing beat playing Resistance Fall of Man and watching Casino Royal on bluray that day.

It was the first console that my parents didn't buy for me. It was quite a journey with a long list of games to describe, midnight launches to attend, and then realizing that TLoU was one of the last AAA games to have played through on the console.

I have quite the list of digital titles, so there's no way I'd ever get rid of mine.

I remember selling my original 60 GB for the MGS4 model and then getting the slim somewhere down the road.

I've never thought so negative about owning one. I used mine far more than some DVD/Bluray player. I never understood that, even with the PS2. I had mine on launch and I even heard people use the "DVD" remark.

Sad to hear, but also a new beginning.

TheNotoriousAFG · May 30, 2017

Hehe, still playing Persona 5 on this bad boy so I don't plan to retire PS3 any time soon.

Excited to explore the library and all it has to offer :')

NolbertoS · May 30, 2017

If Sony can sell me a PS3 BC as a parting gift for PS3 I'd buy it in an instant. Other than that, PS3 was an OK system without BC

ASaiyan · May 30, 2017

How long until the launch models with BC creep back up to 599 US dollars.

A great console; it just took three years to get going and cemented Microsoft's place in the industry along the way.

Rizific · May 30, 2017

MetalGearZed said:
goodbye worst playstation

Yup. Good riddance. Thankfully I didn't pay for my PS3.

ResidentDante · May 30, 2017

MetalGearZed said:
goodbye worst playstation

Yup!

Melchiah · May 30, 2017

Kthulhu said:
Cell is finally dead. Thank fucking god.

Fiber said:
World's most overrated console.
Tiger on the paper, kitty in real.

I still can't forget how bad red dead redemption and GTA IV looked on this console.

So, so weak. Comparising the Xbox 360.

JusDoIt · May 30, 2017

Wonder when we'll get final sales numbers for it. Did it ever officially pass the 360?

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