PS3: 10 Years Later #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin and the ps3 is

now 10 years old so this is the og

original launched ps3 I gotta say things

have changed and talked about a console

that was ahead of its time

I mean the first prototype for the ps3

they showed had two HDMI ports at

multiple Ethernet USB I mean in theory

if they actually went completely insane

you could have been doing multiple

screens of gaming with ps3 oh it's so

heavy - so on launch day there were two

editions there was a 20 gigabyte version

which was lacking a few features such as

Wi-Fi and this was the full fat 60

gigabyte which had all kinds of extra

stuff and you know what this is actually

probably the best ps3 that they ever

made I mean there are extra stuff like

having memory card readers so not only

could you read SD cards but you also

could do memory stick and even compact

flash on the launch ps3 there are also

other nice touches like having four full

USB ports which is actually more than a

me PlayStation senses had and even

though this signals a whopping $600 at

launch Sony was still losing money on

every single one they sold so inside it

was rocking a brand new cell chip which

in theory was kind of like an eight-core

chip but not really it was a very unique

architecture and on one hand it gave the

ps3 a ton of power on the other though

it made it a lot more difficult to

develop for which especially with the

Xbox 360 around made a lot of games look

not quite as nice on the ps3 into a much

later in its lifecycle one of the big

advantages the ps3 had over the Xbox 360

was the blu-ray drive so while the 360

may do with standard DVDs just like ps2

and Xbox used Sony stepped it up with a

full blu-ray drive on the ps3 and even

though this thing was $600 at launch

that still made it by far the cheapest

blu-ray player you could get when it

came out not only did that mean that the

kiss three was ready to watch HD

blu-rays right out of the box but also

meant that games could have a lot more

space on the discs in fact a lot of Xbox

360 games ended up coming on multiple

DVDs where pretty much all ps3 games

were able to fit on a single blu-ray

this really was a very close console

generation so the Xbox 360 had some

advantages but for example it had memory

card slots where there's all PS degrees

had at least some kind of hard drive on

top of that this had no Wi-Fi at launch

whereas the kiss

so there were definitely advantages here

however the ps3 also cost a couple

hundred dollars more than the 360 so

here we have the entire PlayStation 3

lineup and the thing is the original fat

one was kind of the best so while there

were some small changes on the slim and

the super slim like losing those extra

USB ports and the card reader but the

biggest difference was that the original

playstation 3 could also handle ps2

games not only did the fat ps3 have all

that power with the cel processor but it

also essentially had the guts of a

Playstation 2 inside so when you want to

boot up a ps2 game you're actually

running it on native ps2 Hardware now we

have SOCOM - so this is a ps2 game that

is running on the PlayStation 3 so the

first thing it does is it gives us a

upscale 1080p image so while it might

not be native HD or anything this looks

a lot better than playing on a ps2 with

something like a component cable one

very cool feature of the launch ps3 was

actually compatible with Linux so if

you're on a version of the firmware

that's earlier than 3.21 which this

happens to be on then you can

essentially turn your PlayStation into a

computer to show what that was capable

of in 2010 the US Air Force took 1760

PlayStation 3s tied them together and

basically create a supercomputer these

things were no joke that means that the

launch ps3 is actually fairly valuable

as well there were some fad histories

that could do ps2 games via software

emulation by the time the ps3 slim came

out there was no way playing ps2 at all

of course it wasn't all bad the ps3 slim

was a whole lot smaller and a lot

lighter and importantly it was also more

reliable so wild the original ps3's were

awesome they were a little bit prone to

failure certainly not as bad as the Xbox

360 however the yellow light of death

was absolutely an issue for not a ton of

these still around then in 2012 they

launched the super slim this was pretty

much the same thing as the slim but it

was just cheaper and had this terrible

sliding door for the discs not the best

upgrade 10 years later and we had the

new Playstation 4 Pro now this is

definitely a faster console it's

actually kind of impressive at how close

these are in a lot of aspects for

example they both still use blu-ray

drives and while the ps4 Pro is just

barely gotten beyond 1080p the original

ps3 still completely supported

those graphics though so this is one of

the ps3 launch titles resistance fall of

man this was this was cool back in 2006

I mean even today it's not that bad sure

it's uh maybe a little rough around the

edges but that okay you one thing that

is ancient is that my triggers aren't

triggers this is how I crouch next we

have Need for Speed carbon so this is

another one of the ps3 launch titles and

again concerning this 2006 it doesn't

look too bad

so honestly I think the big thing that

really stands out to me are not the

graphics but the controls it's a little

floaty err than I'd like especially out

of a racing game

however again doesn't 6 this was not bad

next we have Ridge Racer so this is

another one of the ps3 launch titles and

something that really jumps out to me is

that it actually looks noticeably

sharper than the others so I'm not sure

if it's necessarily running at 1080p but

I do think it's running at least it's

somewhat of a higher resolution and it

also takes advantage of the sixaxis

motion controls as you can see by my

sick drifting skills oh is that trips

dual wall so six axis was essentially

Sony's answer to the Wii motion controls

so while it wasn't quite as full

featured as the Wii Remote you did get

some sort of rudimentary motion controls

so you can see them steering sort of

decently here and Ridge Racer

it really wasn't picked up by as many

games but it was a nice gimmick to have

and now we have the last of us going

from the launch titles to this rule just

goes to show how much horsepower the ps3

had Meli's is a fantastic looking game

and honestly probably one of the best

looking games on the PlayStation 3

period but it's also an amazing title

this might be one of my favourite games

of all time 10 years and 85 million

consoles later while the ps3 might not

have been quite as popular as its

predecessor it's hard to argue that it's

not one of the best consoles of all time

so what was the first time you got to

try a ps3 definitely be sure to let me

know in the comments below and I will

catch you on the next one