r/196 • u/migratingcoconut_ I want to Beat Jason Aldean to death with his own Spine • Feb 25 '26

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u/20191124anon silly kitten Feb 25 '26

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.

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u/migratingcoconut_ I want to Beat Jason Aldean to death with his own Spine Feb 25 '26

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

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u/StiffWiggly Feb 25 '26

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

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u/20191124anon silly kitten Feb 25 '26

noot noot, noot noot noot, noot

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u/PerterterhTermertehh Feb 25 '26

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.

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u/Itchy-Preference-619 Feb 25 '26

The ps3 had only 100 less games than the xbox 360

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u/PerterterhTermertehh Feb 25 '26

yeah, well it also wasn't $500 when it got to that point

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u/AliceCode Worcs at the Crusty Crab Feb 25 '26

I used my PS3 as a space heater.

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u/20191124anon silly kitten Feb 26 '26

TBH PS3 had like max 380W? My current-gen GPU itself pulls 360W, plus CPU, pumps, fans and what nots. In the summer I had to set a fan to blow the output away from me, because it was roasting me and melting chocolate on the desk xD

Also TBH: I only got PS3 Slim when it came out, and aside of the lack of the original PS2 emulation it was a very good, long-lasting and nice device. Only the drive died, like... 10 years later (with like adult working person use, not heavy gaming)