Thread 106220213

Was the PS3 ahead of its time?

>offered you free online
>offered you seamless PSX/PS2 backwards compatibility
>offered you a wirless controller with a charger (the only of the three that had this)
>offered you built in WIFI without using a shitty dongle
>offered you 60GB right out of the box
>offered you standard SATA HDD's (sata 1 interface) instead of proprietary ones
>offered you CELL CPU
>offered you new state of the art Blu Ray player
>offered you great first party games and JRPG's
>all for 600$

Yes, and an equivalent of such a great product will never be released again.

>>106220213 (OP)
brack friday burduru? https://youtu.be/Avjxqwlctds

>>106220213 (OP)
Yes

>>106220213 (OP)
>All for 600
yeah, see back then 600 dollars was a ridiculous amount of money for a console.

RIIIIIDGE RACER

Also the cell processor was poorly designed with massive memory bottlenecks. Xbox got around this by shoving EDRAM on the chip.

>>106220213 (OP)
The PS3 was originally specced to be even better, the E3 2005 prototype had 3 ethernet ports, 2 hdmi ports and 2 additional usb ports on the back

>>106220213 (OP)
>psx
it's calles PS One faggot

>>106220254
>yeah, see back then 600 dollars was a ridiculous amount of money for a console.
And now graphics cards are launching for more than twice that.
What a world we live in.

>>106220213 (OP)
>>all for 600$

None of that matters when it has no games

>>106220291
At the time $600 was $600.

>>106220213 (OP)
Bait and switch, since they removed a lot of those features after only a year. All that was sold at a loss to establish themselves in the market and they had to remove it as soon as they were established because of the losses on each console.

>>106220255
That was a fake mockup.

>>106220255
>>106220947
>prototype
Maybe it was just close to a devkit?

>>106220213 (OP)
>Was the PS3 ahead of its time?

It's still a better hardware than the PS5

>>106220891
You must be at least 18 to post on this site.
Get a degree and learn what monetary inflation is.

Sad I sold my OG PlayStation to a couple that walked all the way through town just to meet up at Walmart to pick it up and walk back through the whole ass town just for this PS3. I needed money at the time since I was selling my N64 also but God was that thing wonderful. I was always afraid it was one bad day from bricking. IIRC whenever it came out it was cheaper to buy that compared to a traditional Blu-ray player.

>>106221166
>IIRC whenever it came out it was cheaper to buy that compared to a traditional Blu-ray player.
Sure was, I managed to get my parents to buy one based on that selling point alone. we had that OG unit for a long time but eventually it had that solder issue and completely bricked, and that repair was beyond my skills, so I ended up with a Slim model (which is still good). The super slim was dog shit though, glad I never owned one.

Kinda funny how my original PS1 still works and has outlasted the fat PS3.

>>106221129
600 dollars felt like 1000 dollars back then. and people complained about the price, they coped with 'well it doubles as a blu ray player' which were extremely expensive.

>>106221313
I think blu-ray players themselves cost about $200 more on average. Hard to remember exactly but I know it was a big enough price difference that the PS3 was cheaper by a decent amount.

>>106221313
>600 dollars felt like 1000 dollars back then. and people complained about the price, they coped with 'well it doubles as a blu ray player' which were extremely expensive.

Thats how I convinced my folks to buy one, for the movie player. I meanwhile had (still do) a DVD/Bluray/HDDVD player for the PC.

But 2600 cannot print DeCSS. what a farce

>>106221193
>>106221400
did every kid do this? i've seen a similar story a few times (and did it myself kek)

>>106220213 (OP)
>offered a blu ray drive
>offered a SACD player with a optical surround output

I got the super slim and modded it with HEN. Anybody know how to make the most out of HEN because I only put Persona 4 (PS2 version) on my system before I got bored with it.

It was ok but Xbox 360 was way better

>>106221165
Lol, no, at the time $600 was $600.

>>106220213 (OP)

maybe
nice blueray
eyefi or whatever
usb key upgradeable or move system

>>106220213 (OP)
No. PS3 was a product of its time. Its features they were simple extensions of what was already normal in some way or another. It was just an evolutionary update.

replaceable batteries > internal battery that WILL die eventually

>>106222361
The internal battery is replaceable.

>>106220255
Why would you need 3 ethernet ports? I get 2, for daisy chaining PS3 consoles for local LAN mutiplayer but 3 seems like an overkill.

>>106220947
Who fucking cares retard, it was still the spec they originally pushed for. Obviously it didn't happen. Are you autistic or just a fucking faggot?

>>106220213 (OP)
yes, but IBM fucked Sony raw (without lube) so that's that