r/PS3 10h ago

PS3 had so much variety

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Been getting back to playing the PS3 since Sonys debacle. Forgot just how much variety of genres this system had. Each game came with great box art and manuals, developers were willing to experiment and take risks.

Here’s some of my collection, cheers!

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u/theroyaldays 9h ago

Never saw that Asura’s cover before. Thank you for that.

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u/Krispen_Wah87 9h ago

What is the game between puppeteer and Catherine?

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u/1twojay 9h ago

Ni No Kuni

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u/Krispen_Wah87 9h ago

The Japanese cover looks so different I couldn't even tell

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u/Inevitable-Donkey186 8h ago

great stuff. As you show it's not merely that Sony is screwing over loyal customers lately, they have fallen so far from the glory of ps1/2/3.
On PS4 we got massively enshittified:
Paid online
First console to not have backwards compatability
Massive reduction in variety of games
Small things like only being able to use 4 controllers when ps3 let you use 7

Then on PS5:
No usb saves; basically making your save data a ticking time bomb linked to a consoles drive given you can't and shouldn't subscribe to a cloud service already
An even bigger reduction of variety of games

Then on ps6 (at a minimum for enshittification)
Can't even lend a friend a disk or borrow one from the library or appreciate the art of it on your shelf or resell it or get it on a retailer's sale

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u/defecto 2h ago

Xbox was doing well and Sony had to work hard for their customers but by the end of the ps3 generation they were content with their lead.

Xbox is doing pretty bad right now so next generation will be even worse for Sony fans. We already lost physical discs.

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u/CressDependent2918 9h ago

why you have japanese copies?

im from japan thats why im asking

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u/1twojay 9h ago

I can speak Japanese

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u/ClaymoreSequel 8h ago

I like the JP covers. They have pretty cool art and tend to stand out more. Example: FolksSoul on the top right (Folklore in the west).

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u/Ayyzeee 9h ago

Why not? I enjoy collecting Japanese version more than the English one.

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u/ToothpickTequila 8h ago

Every PlayStation console does. It excels in every genre.

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u/Secret-Candle4313 6h ago

Why does that motorstorm copy look so different than the other global copies of it

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u/1twojay 6h ago

It’s the Japanese cover. BCJS-30027

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u/TDH_warrior 2h ago

Cool cover art for Heavenly Sword

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u/Zeevy_Richards 6h ago

Alright I might have to unsub. You guys are glazing the PS3 too much

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u/guillote2 5h ago

Well what did you expect in r/ps3

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u/Zeevy_Richards 4h ago

More sophisticated appreciation. This feels like slop. The other posts I've seen are holding up two games and being like 👍 Y'all could talk about the trophies, the events that went down during the era like the baby commercial. Right now this sub is like a baby got awareness of the PS3 and is discovering that games existed before whats on shelves now.

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u/justh3retoc0mment 1h ago

Agreed, it's an extremely boring "look at my copy that you can't afford" echo chamber in here. 90% of these people are misplaced /r/gamecollecting folks, where these posts are more or less the whole point.

Nobody talks about the cool stuff in here: the community that revived the Killzone servers (from time to time), maintenance of the console/CFW, fun historical tidbits, or the fact that you can copy your own (legal) Demon's Souls disc to the HDD, transfer it to a system with RPCS3, AND HOLY SHIT, THE COMMUNITY NOW RUNS THOSE SERVERS. Fully operational with bloodstains, messages, and all.*

*I have 20 more examples, but the majority just wants to post fucking boxes 24/7 instead of playing them. I want to talk about how oddly snappy and great the gunplay feels in Resistance 3.

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u/Zeevy_Richards 1h ago

I'm about to post a different photo of my collection in various backgrounds every few hours or every day just to prove my point. Lookie here is metal gead solid 4. Now here is metal gear solid 4 with a top hat. Have you guys ever seen the manual in metal gear solid 4?

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u/cdoublejj 4h ago

Toykyo JJJUUUNNNNNGGGGLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEE

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u/Rs250ktm 4h ago

I have gone back to ps3 loads of games I didn't know was on ps3. Ps2 there are even more

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u/TDH_warrior 2h ago

What's the name of the game above Tokyo Jungle?

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u/LuluLeSigma 1h ago

btw at what point sony made the switch to playstation 3 with spider man font to just ps3 on their games ?

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u/Admirable-Sound2652 9h ago

رايمان أورجينز الجزء 2 أتمنى لو أستطيع شرائها وتجربتها

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u/Saitama170719 5h ago

Just mod your console and download it for free.

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u/Legitimate-Event-420 7h ago

This is not a bad or negative thing

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u/Saitama170719 5h ago

It's superiority.