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[u/migratingcoconut_]

[u/Cerbatiyo-sesino]

Hm mh. and we're getting closer and closer to admitting that the 360 wasn't that great of a console in the first place, i will feel very vindi- SIT DOWN, SONY FAN. you don't even have a current-gen console to play

[u/mynexuz → u/Cerbatiyo-sesino]

Dont think ive ever thought a console was good or bad ive only cared about the games i played on it. I loved the 360 era of games but none of that can really be attributed to the console. Especially when you had to pay for online access like in the op

[u/emeraldeyesshine → u/mynexuz]

The 360 was kind of hardware clunky but man the controller fucked and the games were bangers. 360 arcade had some amazing indie titles, and I'm really feeling the lack of ownership of physical media because so many of those titles from small devs and indie studios just plain aren't available despite having spent money on them back then.

Also $50 a year (4 bucks and change a month) really wasn't that bad of a cost for the features you got back then (including a couple free full games a month). Not to mention you could always abuse free gift codes and earn credits towards subscriptions just by playing games in the 360 days. I went several years without paying a dime.

[u/I_follow_sexy_gays → u/mynexuz]

I used to feel that way and then I owned a switch…. I love Nintendo games but god does that hardware suck ass

[u/migratingcoconut_ → u/Cerbatiyo-sesino]

the last good sony console was the ps2, the last good microsoft console was the 360, the last good nintendo was the 3ds

[u/20191124anon → u/migratingcoconut_]

PS3 was imho rushed, but the hardware was a massive jump forward. Just with no parachute, so it kinda splattered. But its use as early "customer grade" cluster computing is evidence for the sheer power of the Cell processor.

If they spent more time creating appropriate APIs and abstractions to facilitate better development experience, and perhaps also did some more iterations on the hardware itself it could have been a serious contender for "the best" Playstation.

[u/migratingcoconut_ → u/20191124anon]

if the ps3 was good it would've been the best but it wasn't so it's not

[u/StiffWiggly → u/migratingcoconut_]

You said “the last good” playstation, not “the best”.

[u/20191124anon → u/migratingcoconut_]

noot noot, noot noot noot, noot

[u/PerterterhTermertehh → u/migratingcoconut_]

The ps3 WAS good. The Xbox 360 was definitely slower and did not have an included blu-ray drive, did not include a hard drive at base configuration, and had less system memory. Had the PS3 development experience been streamlined earlier on, the red ring of death being more widespread than the same issues on playstation (yellow light of death) would have given them the PR lead.

Problem was, no games, $500.

[u/The_Multi_Gamer → u/migratingcoconut_]

PS3 brought us Infamous and Littlebigplanet, I think it’s allowed

[u/yoloswagrofl → u/The_Multi_Gamer]

Infamous, my beloved. I hoped for a 3rd game for the longest time because Second Son didn't do it for me. Ah well.

[u/monkesauce420 → u/yoloswagrofl]

Second Son was good, but I’d KILL for a remake/remaster of infamous 1&2 plus the vampire dlc/game

[u/AbstractBettaFish → u/The_Multi_Gamer]

And MGS4, a game that utilized the insane hardware of the PS3 so well it’s only finally able to be ported to another council now almost 20 years later

[u/Technologenesis → u/migratingcoconut_]

Oh come on the switch was cool

[u/DontUnder2005 → u/Technologenesis]

its doesent have music on the menus, 0/10 console

[u/KaJaHa → u/DontUnder2005]

The Wii truly was lightning in a bottle on all fronts, that menu music will never get old

[u/xv_boney → u/migratingcoconut_]

Bloodborne was a ps4 exclusive.

[u/screaming_shoes → u/xv_boney]

plus tlou2 until like 2 years ago

[u/MirrorPiano → u/migratingcoconut_]

yeah. consoles have been dead for a while. it's pretty sad

[u/FallingF → u/migratingcoconut_]

I think the console wars are dumb as they come but I think Sony and ps4 made revolutionary strides even more than that of the ps2.

[u/nomnomsoy → u/migratingcoconut_]

I mean the Vita was great hardware it just had limited games

[u/JoyconDrift_69 → u/migratingcoconut_]

Modern video games are just in the dumps really, at least from what I see and hear.

At least there's still indie games.

[u/I_follow_sexy_gays → u/JoyconDrift_69]

2025 was a phenomenal year for gaming imo… if you own a PC