Sony seem to think they dont need a steady amount of great exclusives anymore since the ps5 is making them more money then they ever have,heck they make more then nintendo ever have.

Its sad to see sony is slowly getting more anti exclusive their output on the ps2 and ps3 was legendary. I stil remember how hyped i was to play games like killzone2 and uncharted2, also loved warhawk and mag.

Ow well.

Also Uncharted 3 required unreal levels of sorcery we just don't get these days. Arguably it shouldn't be needed but still

A lot of late PS3 stuff was downright black magic in terms of what it squeezed out of the specs; Killzone 3, God of War Ascension, Beyond Two Souls, TLOU, GTA5, MGS5, Battlefield 4, etc.

But yeah, the downside was that it took years for devs to really figure the system out, so for much of its life multiplat performance suffered.

I had a 60GB fat PS3. I didn't really get interested in it until Valkyria Chronicles came out and it started getting RPGs.

It was a remarkable turnaround story. It got great games in its later lifecycle. 2013 was a great year for PS3, with Ni no Kuni, Tales of Xillia, and Dragon's Crown.

That said, mine yellow-lighted some years back and I never bothered to fix or replace it. Almost all of the games it had that i cared about are now on Switch, including VC and Ni no Kuni. So I bought the Switch versions of those games instead. And to be fair, I feel the same way about the 360. I don't feel a need to rebuy either.a PS3 or a 360 since I can play all the games I cared about on my current hardware.

PS3 was the golden generation of gaming for me with the best lineup of exclusives released during its lifetime like:

Uncharted trilogy, Resistance trilogy, Killzone 2 and 3, TLOU, Flower, Journey, LBP 1 and 2, R&C Future games, inFamous 1, 2 and Festival of Blood, Heavenly Sward, Folklore, MGS4, GOW3 and Ascension, Puppeteer, Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls, GT5 and 6, Tokyo Jungle, Twisted Metal, Rain, Warhawk and Starhawk, PSASBR, Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, Modnation Racers and several more!!

The HD collections started on it and brought many awesome games from the PS2 era in stunning HD which i played many of them for the first time since i didn’t game a lot during the PS2 era.

PS3 was the first console i bought myself and kickstarted my official gaming journey. During the 90s and early-mid 2000s i was gaming casually on my family’s NES, Sega Genesis, 3DO, PS1 and PS2.

PS3 had PS Home which was a mind blowing social experience when i first experienced it in 2009 which got me many friends that i still have and i think the UI was and still fast except the PS store when it was updated in 2012.

Supported CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, Flash drives and sticks and i could store all the media i accumulated through the years on it.

The first console for me to have Wifi, operating system, trophies, customisable UI, online gaming, store and communications with friends and plays all sorts of media i had bought or stored on it with the chance to upgrade the storage, which i did from 80GB to 720GB.

Its the fanciest looking console for me (Phat model) and looked and still look very premium with its design and its reflective piano black coating.

It was a dream and i had the best time on it and still do! and created many beautiful memories during my late teens and early 20s.

I still use my PS3 and play new games i bought from Ebay/PS store in 2023-present and i still think its a remarkable machine, even in todays standards and especially during its time.

Yeah will say, the fat PS3 is my personal pick for the coolest looking console of all time, such a sexy beast

The slim models were such a huge downgrade in looks

It looks so futuristic and i will never forgot the first time i laid my eyes on it in a magazine called T3 in 2005 and i immediately gasped and was fully mesmerised! Lol

I agree that the design kept getting worse with later iterations in my opinion but the super slim in particular looked atrocious and cheap AF.

It's the best Bluray player ever, I'll give you that.