Let's talk about the PS3

johnny_ultimate

Also, as an aside to a recent Astro Bot thought, the PS3 PSN Store’s retro selection was incredible. I set up Japan and US accounts and had access to cheap copies of many of the PS1 classics I missed first time around. Discovered some favourites like Einhander and The Adventures of Little Ralph that way. Obviously they all worked on the PSP too as a bonus.

Kind of tragic seeing the half arsed rereleases Sony have engaged in for the last two gens, with only a relative handful of titles getting ports. The tech is obviously there, so would love to see a proper retro push rather than the drip feed of random titles you get now.

SeantheMan

It was the first time I dropped PS for Xbox.
The 360 was so much better than the PS3. (I did end up with a PS3 though, if only for Metal Gear 4 - which was a letdown, and 1 or 2 other exclusives)
Was straight back to Playstation on the next gen though.

RoyalCelt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122622933#Comment_122622933

I set up a USA account to get hogs of war! Still have it installed.

Retr0gamer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122652119#Comment_122652119

Actually that's one thing I never mentioned, how it was pretty much a region free console. Both the PS3 and XBox 360 could region encode games but games could also be left region free. On the case of the 360 at the start quite a few games were region encoded but that soon phased out and barely any were. On PS3 there's only one region encoded game I know of, Persona 4 Arena and it was a complete disaster as it arrived in Europe a full year after the US release to dead servers as players had moved on. There was a lot of controversy over it.

It also had a region free network service which was very useful, especially for lovers of old games. European accounts could only access a miserable selection for PS1 games but these were all PAL regions games so ran at 50 fps and most were slowed down to accommodate. If you got a US or Japanese account you had access to a much larger range of games that weren't horribly compromised and slowed down. The japanese store in particular was an absolute treasure trove of PS1 games, many of which would be extremely rare physically.

Sephiroth_dude

Still have my 60 gig launch PS3 but it doesn't work unfortunately, would love to get it going again but don't think it's possible now .

Raichų

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122663906#Comment_122663906

what’s wrong with it Seph?

Sephiroth_dude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122665795#Comment_122665795

Yellow light of death but that happened a good 10 years ago, don't think anyone can fix it now, I hung onto it as I thought it might be worth something.

Raichų

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122665974#Comment_122665974

Not sure. If you’re up for it I’d definitely buy it off you!

Raichų

worst case it’s a paperweight but can prob salvage parts off it if nothing else!!

Retr0gamer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122665974#Comment_122665974

You can get that fixed, it's just finding someone that can reball the system.

Retr0gamer

Forgot to add one last bot of negativity to the PS3. A lot of the YLOD weren't down to the heat issues the 360 had but due to the awful software of the PS3, specifically how it updates. Every update flashed the nand of the motherboard, and as any PC user will tell you, you want to avoid this as much as possible as it has quite a high potential of bricking your system with a bad flash. The 360 didn't need to flash the nand for updates as it was well made although the big updates that completely changed the OS did.

Anyway Sony would not recognize that a bad NAND flash was their problem if the issue occurred.