Gadgetory

hey guys is Austin and the ps3 is now 10 years old so this is the og original launched ps3 I got to 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 a ps3 oh it's so heavy - so on launch day there were two editions there's 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 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 any PlayStation senses had and even though this thing was a whopping six hundred dollars at launch Sony was still losing money on every single one they sold so inside it was rockin the brand-new cell check 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 until much later in its lifecycle one of the big advantages the ps3 had over the Xbox 360 was the blu-ray drive so 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 six hundred ollars 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 the ps3 was ready to watch HD blu-rays right out of the box but also meant the 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 bandages but for example it had memory card slots whereas all ps3's had at least some kind of hard drive on top of that this had no Wi-Fi at launch whereas the ps3 did 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 does the fat ps3 have all that power with the Cell processor 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 2 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 launched ps3 was a little 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 and you can essentially turn your PlayStation into a computer to show what I 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 launched ps3 is actually fairly valuable as well there were some fad ps3's 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 while 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 it 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 a maybe a little rough around the edges but that okay 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 considering those chosen sticks 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 um it's a little floaty err than I'd like especially out of a racing game however again doesn't 6 this is 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 you can see by my sick drifting skills oh is a trip to dual wall so sixaxis 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 route 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