A callback to the PS3 early days.

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The earliest PS3s could run PS2 games. Those were nice, rare, and expensive.

I wish they’d kept up with the hardware backwards compatibility.

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I still have my George Foreman Grill PS3!

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Same. It can play PS1, PS2, and also cook up a hamburger. It reduces the fat!

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i 100% would have gotten a ps3 if i could play ps2, but by the time i was able they werent selling those ps3s anymore. so i went with the 360 and never looked back

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All PS3’s could play PS1 games too

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Yes I know some of these are downloadables from the ps2 but what about it

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Wasn’t there that indie game I can’t remember the name of… The End of Us? Something like that.

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Which ones? As far as I’m aware, they’re all full-fat PS3 titles

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Didn’t RDR perform terribly on the PS3?

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Persona 3 FES and Persona 4 were PS2 titles. Aside from Infamous and Demon’s Souls, the rest were multi-platform. I bought a PS3 at launch, but my game library for it was always small.

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PS5 has no games either. It’s the PS3 2. 3+2 = 5.

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Playing Motorstorm with the 6-axis in the controller was a surreal experience. And that was a launch title. Same with playing a mature FPS from the makers of Ratchet & Clank and Spyro.

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not to mention the crash bandicoot and jak & daxter devs making the last of us

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@Omegamanthethird @Thassodar Did they have the six-axis at launch? I’m trying to remember the specifics – it has been so long – but I do remember that Sony had a lot of trouble getting the dual shock motors to work together with the six-axis thing for whatever reason (I mean I assume they never run at the same time?) and I thought I remember a delay due to that?

It has been too long. I don’t remember well.

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You’re kind of remembering right. The first controllers were 6-axis and did not have rumble. They claimed it was impossible.

Later on they added it back in and it became the dual shock 3.

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@Omegamanthethird Ohhh. It was the other way around. Hah.

Goldfish have nothing on me!

(What are goldfish? 😁 )

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I know it was later in the console’s cycle, but the PS3 had Grand Theft Auto V. Yes, GTA5 has been the most recent installment in the franchise for that long.

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Ditto Skyrim.

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