OK, Deadly Premonition isn’t the best example of the PS3’s graphical crispness. There are also a lot of games that are now only playable if you have a PS3, so the console is a must if you want access to as many games as possible that were released over the past 12 years.
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Also, as I’ll talk about below, PS3 games were getting pretty polished and beautiful towards the end of the console life-cycle, so unless you have a top-notch TV (which I most certainly don’t), the games will actually look very good, despite being “older” games. This is unlike some retro consoles, where having a 4k HDTV will require a lot of fiddling and adapters. It’s composite cable and HDMI friendly, meaning it will work without too much hassle on any TV. It’s been pretty horrendous for my backlog, but great for those lazy Saturday mornings where I can browse my collection at leisure and pick something out at random to pop in my console.įurthermore, the PS3 is not THAT outdated that it is a pain to use.
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Very often, PS3 game bidding won’t go much above that, and through this practice, I’ve built a 40-strong PS3 boxed disc collection for the cost of two or three Day One PS4 releases.
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Since mid-2016, I will often bid 3 euros each on a bunch of PS2 and PS3 games on eBay, and see what I win.
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And, unless you’re going for something quite rare like a Katamari game, they don’t tend to want much money for parts of their collection. Furthermore, sellers want to get rid of their old PS3 games for something new, and want you to take the games off their hands. It’s not old enough to be attractive to the retro crowd – the PlayStation and even the PlayStation 2 is starting to go that way – while those who want to play the most up-to-date games have tossed it aside. Right now, we’re in that collectors’ sweet spot where the PlayStation 3 is distinctly unfashionable. So, why should you rush out and get a second-hand PS3? And how do you make the PS3 an exciting, useful console in 2018, when you have a PS4 already sitting in your cabinet? Let me discuss why I think the PS3 still has legs, and what to do to fall back in love with the console. I play my PlayStation 3 probably about 60% of the time I’m gaming, while 30% goes on my PlayStation 4 and a measly 10% goes on low-res adventure and point-and-click games on my battered old laptop. There’s still life in the old gal yet, and what’s more, it’s becoming a very cheap console to collect for.
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I would even argue that now is the perfect time to buy a PS3, if you missed out on that era of games.
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Hold it right there, though! Now is absolutely not the time to be even thinking of getting rid of your PS3. To be frank, we’re drowning in good current-gen games, so it’s probably time to sell old consoles to buy extra games, send slightly battered models off to the scrap heap, or simply leave them untouched, gathering dust, on the shelf. We’re reaching peak PS4 time, with huge releases such as Monster Hunter: World and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus coming to the console in the past few months.
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The figures are out, and the PlayStation 4 is already close to catching up with the PlayStation 3 when it comes to lifetimes sales.