What is your PS3?

I use it for games, streaming and blu-ray. At this point I like to buy third party games for PS3 if the version's comparable to 360. It's just easier to have everything in one system.

The one weak point is the updating/installing, which will luckily be gone with PS4. I downloaded Stranger's Wrath some time ago and it sucks to have a long install afterwards, then again a long update after that. I've always found it weird that PS3 has these huge update sizes, while 360 has patches of 3 or 4 mb.
 
I am loving mine.

Mostly playing Resident Evil 6 when I get the time to do so. Still have Metal Gear Rising and other tings to finish off.

My Xbox on the other hand :(
 
It's my primary home console (the others are on dust collecting duty), though I only play occasionally. I use way more my PC and PSP.
 
PC is my main gaming machine, but PS3 is still my main console I play games on. Still gotta catch up on some recent games like Ni No Kuni.

My PC is hooked up to my TV, so I got no reason to use my PS3 for any secondary functions when PC does everything a lot better.
 
I usually play most console exclusives ony ps3. Dragons dogma is in it right now.

My 360 hardly ever gets touch. Halo 4 is in it I believe.

Been gaming a lot on my PC lately. Tomb raider , star craft, diablo 3.
 
Games console first and foremost. Sometimes a Blu-ray but I don't watch a huge a mount of films, nor are the streaming services worth the fee due to the horrible choice (UK).
 
My primary home console, 95% of my gaming time is divided between it and Vita. Also use it for Blu-Rays occasionally.
 
astronautcowboy said:
As this console generation begins to wind down, it seems like a lot of people have stopped picking up as many new titles as they used to and are instead riding out the storm until the new hardware hits. So, now that we've reached this stage in the cycle, what has your PS3 become? Is it still your primary gaming machine? A Netflix box? A space heater?

I'd say that since getting married, and especially since our daughter was born, my PS3 has become more of a multimedia device; the only new games I've gotten in the past two years are all half-finished. It was a Hulu Plus box for a while, but now it's primarily a My Neighbor Totoro player that I use to store retired/patiently waiting Vita games.
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Quite the contrary. I've bought and played more games than ever before. Partly because of PS+, and partly because there have been so many good releases during the last years. I'm actually wondering how I'll find time to play the upcoming games; Bioshock Infinite, Deadly Premonition, Dead Island: Riptide, The Last of Us, Metro: Last Light, Beyond: Two Souls... and clear my bloated PS+ backlog before the PS4 arrives.

That being said, I also use the system for Netflix on regular basis, and I love that it's become a box that offers a variety of entertainment (Netflix came available here in Europe only last fall).
 
I still play it. Got Tales of Xillia, South Park coming up soon. I don't plan on getting a PS4 for a long time, so. I hope a lot of the PS4 games I want are cross gen.
 
Recently, most of my gaming has been done on my PC, but my PS3 is currently my main console (my Wii is currently my go-to dust collector, and my 360 has been dead for a long time).

I've mainly used it this generation as fighting games console though - most of my games collection involve beating someone else up in one form or another (Arcana Heart 3, various versions of BlazBlue, Soul Calibur 4 and 5, Street Fighter 4 in all of its incarnations, Tekken 6 and Tag 2, etc.).

It's also been a pretty decent multiplayer, JRPG and import games console (Valkyria Chronicles is still one of my favourite games this generation).

I've wanted to start using PSN+ for a while now, hence why I recently installed a new 500GB hard drive into it (my model was the 80GB one).
 
my PS3 is currently:
+my primary gaming console
+my only BluRay player
+and I watch Netflix from it.

the 360 dashboard interface discourages me from turning it on much at all
 
Other than a spot of gaming here and there, currently primarily being used as a 3d bluray player and lovefilm/BBC iPlayer streaming device while I wait for The last of us.
 
Playing it more than ever as I'm trying to get through my backlog before the PS4 comes out. I've slowed down on my 360 backlog as I haven't made up my mind on getting the new one till all the rumors get settled.
 
Mine is just sitting in my closet collecting dust. My Xbox is hooked up but I never play it either since I got a PC hooked up to my TV in December. I use my WiiU for Netflix/Amazon instant video.

Trying to decide whether I want to keep the PS3 or not since it's one of the 60GB fully backward compatible models.
 
My PS3 is becoming less relevant to my gaming time, due to getting my 360 replaced (better versions of multiplatform games) and my transition back to retro. I still play Zen Pinball 2 and Pinball Arcade on it, as well as the occasional title for review, but if given the option to play games on something else-- I usually take it.
 
MvmntInGrn said:
Oh and every time I turn it on it needs an update.
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Yeah, although this isn't really the case, it sure feels like a weird derivative of Russian Roulette whenever I turn my PS3 on. Will I need a firmware update? Is the game I want to play going to require an update?

Updates/patches/forced installs are the biggest reason that I've been unhappy with PS3 over the last generation. Along with the "worst version" syndrome for multiplats.
 
I didn't get a PS3 until fall of 2011 (got by with just the 360 and Wii until then). Best Buy had a pretty ridiculous deal for a PS3 ($299 for new PS3 + Uncharted trilogy and $50 gift card).

Since then, I've used it mostly as a platform for exclusives, since I get most multiplats on the 360 unless the consensus is that it's better on the PS3. I've gotten some of the HD collections (God of War, Ico/SotC, Jak) to catch up on the PS2 games I missed, and picked up the PS3 exclusives that I was interested in (MGS4, LBP, Heavy Rain, as well as the Uncharted games).

EDIT: Oh yeah, also for watching Blu Rays.
 
Mine play games. I've just finished TR. I'll have a few other games to play this year but after GTA V I guess I'll start to play my backlog patiently waiting for the PS4 to have many games I like and maybe a price decrease.
 
I've been primarily gaming on my PC for the past couple of years but I bounce back to the PS3 periodically for one game or another (last one was AC2 last Spring). I still want to get around to Vanquish, 3d dot game heroes and Infamous (I already have them), but I haven't turned on my PS3 in a couple of months.
 
Because of PS+, I've played it more this and last year than since launch. Though, I primarily play multi-plat on PC unless the port is just bad. But, because the PS4 may not allow PSN games I've purchased to play on there, I think I'm just going to avoid it.

Netflix and streaming videos from my storage for now.
 
I'm actually thinking about selling mine since I don't use it for anything but Blu-ray and PLEX. I can get a cheap Blu-ray player and a media server and be done with it. I just don't game on it anymore.
 
MvmntInGrn said:
Every once in awhile I boot it up and download a demo or look at the shop but I don't really play games or movies on it. In fact by the time the demo is finished the feeling to play it is usually gone. I Netflix on PC or Wii but pretty much never on PS3. Oh and every time I turn it on it needs an update.
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I just downloaded Dead or Alive 5, and the 5658MB file took me less than half an hour. I've never really understood the complaints people have about download speeds, as the fault lies most likely somewhere else than in the PS3 (ISP/modem), unless you're using Wi-Fi of course.

The same goes for updates. How rarily do those people, who deem it as a problem, turn on the system? I tend to use my PS3 at least a few times a week, and I've never viewed the updates as a problem, even before PS+ and its automatic updates.
 
A Demon's Souls/media server machine that sounds like it's about to die at any second. I don't use it too much but I haven't turned on my 360 in months.
 
My PS3 has recently become my replacement for TV so whenever I'm not playing a game it is always running some show in netflix. So I wouldn't say it has become a netflix box because I still consider it my primary gaming machine, it's just that whenever I'm on my PC doing whatever it will play shows instead of games.
 
My PS3 is a big Netflix player, but - and I'm proud to say this - it recently spent some time as a God of War Ascension box. It's been a while since I've sat down and played a game from start to finish over the course of 3-4 days.
 
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A dedicated dust collector, just like my (broken) 360. Mostly thanks the the HTPC I've built last year and my huge Steam backlog.
 
I was late getting a PS3 so I'm still catching up on much of this generation, thankfully (EU) PS+ makes that dead easy/cheap so I'm now playing it more than ever.
Hell my last four games I've completed (the main part not 100%) have been Rayman Origins, Arkham City, Uncharted 2 and Sleeping Dogs, that's about as good a run of games as I'm ever likely to get (although with Vanquish waiting on my hard-drive the streak may continue).

It's also my blu-ray player, I used it for the BBC iplayer too before that was available on Sky.
 
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