What is your PS3?

While I personally wait for The Last of US, all of my gaming is now done on my freshly built PC.

However my kids play the PS3 all of the time, while their Wii U gathers dust.
 
My PS3 lately is a PS Plus Machine working with the Vita while waiting for some great Exclusives.

I got GoW Ascension Last week and I'm waiting for The Last of Us and BEYOND. Backlog got me covered for many, many time!
 
1. Netflix
2. MLB 13: The Show
3. High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition

* * *

Sometimes I fire up:

  • Batman: Arkham City
  • Far Cry 2
  • GTA IV
  • Blu-rays and DVDs
 
It's been my main gaming system overall, and still is. Not that it was like that at first. Jumped in with a Wii at launch and generally stayed playing that and PS2 games at first. 360 was my first HD console and was my primary system for a year following Halo 3's launch. But when I got a PS3 with MGS4, I slowly transitioned to having the PS3 becoming first choice.

I flitted away every now and then to play the odd Wii and 360 exclusive, as well as DS, PSP and Vita games. But in the end PS3 is where I'm usually at.


EDIT: And to add, bar the very sparse usage of Blurays and BBC iPlayer on PS3, I don't use my platforms for anything bar gaming
 
Primary gaming console (but not primary gaming platform, which is PC) that has the GT5 disc in it 95% of the time, and occasional BD player/Netflix machine.
 
I've used my ps3 since day 1 as my primary gaming machine and blu-ray watching center. never for netflix or any other apps besides that. I only own a ps3 this gen (and ps4 next gen) and very happy with it and have always been. I'm on ps3 number 2 after a YLOD and then a disk drive read issue on the first got me to buy a new slim model (not super slim). The last 2 months I've been back on it playing Demons's Souls finally and loving it, as well as playing through all 3 titles on the Ratchet and Clank HD collection and some of the Zone of the Enders HD collection recently. Will be playing Bioshock when it releases and looking forward to it. Have spent most of my time the last year playing less ps3 and more Starcraft 2 on my pc, if I wasn't I'd be more active on ps3 like in years past.

<3 my PS3
 
onlyindreams said:
My cat likes to sit on top of it
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Lol mine too! Lucky my phat PS3 died when the superslim didn't exist yet, don't think it would survive a cat sitting on top of it.

Right now I'm playing Ni No Kuni on it, which looks and sounds wonderfully btw., after that I'll play a bunch of other old and new exclusives, like Infamous 2, Last of Us, Beyond Two Souls and then it'll become the next retro console ;)
 
Primarily blu-rays and Netflix. Periodically use it for whatever new PS+ stuff there is.

360 pretty much gathers dust. Been playing almost entirely on PC lately.
 
BenjaminBirdie said:
lol what's better/as easy to keep updated?
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Lots of players are cheaper, faster, quieter, etc. And standalones in the PS3's price range are quite high-end these days, starting to get features like 4K upscaling and much better media playback features (MKV, FLAC, no arbitrary software restrictions on PAL video, etc).

The PS3 doesn't support all lossless audio formats for 3D movies, whereas pretty much any standalone does. Standalones have outputs like dual HDMI (for splitting audio and video when watching 3D) and analogue multichannel audio, which are both great for older receivers.

No infrared port on the PS3 is still a pain in the ass for anyone with a universal remote. I had to pay $55 for an IR to Bluetooth converter to use mine when the PS3 was my primary player.

You can get multiregion standalones, which is a big deal for someone like me who likes to buy movies from all over.

Updates? I don't think the Blu-ray spec is going to be updated again any time soon and I haven't seen major compatibility problems in years.
 
Regularly used as my main console for gaming plus Blu-Ray watching, streaming content, etc.

I use my PC more, but after that my PS3 is my only active platform now. My 360 is disconnected and put away and the Wii only gets a bit of use from time to time.
 
After 2 360 failures early in the life of 360, I cashed out and went all in on PS3.

PS3 is My Primary game system, Blu ray & DVD player.
 
NekoFever said:
Lots of players are cheaper, faster, quieter, etc. And standalones in the PS3's price range are quite high-end these days, starting to get features like 4K upscaling and much better media playback features (MKV, FLAC, no arbitrary software restrictions on PAL video, etc).

The PS3 doesn't support all lossless audio formats for 3D movies, whereas pretty much any standalone does. Standalones have outputs like dual HDMI (for splitting audio and video when watching 3D) and analogue multichannel audio, which are both great for older receivers.

No infrared port on the PS3 is still a pain in the ass for anyone with a universal remote. I had to pay $55 for an IR to Bluetooth converter to use mine when the PS3 was my primary player.

You can get multiregion standalones, which is a big deal for someone like me who likes to buy movies from all over.

Updates? I don't think the Blu-ray spec is going to be updated again any time soon and I haven't seen major compatibility problems in years.
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I got a PS3 when my Treme set wouldn't play in an Insignia that was one iteration behind and I couldn't update it. And that wasn't more than maybe 1.5 years ago. So that was my primary concern, a player that I would always have wifi access and that I could buy at the Gamestop around the corner. (Like, I literally bought it an hour after Treme got delivered.)

And also played WipEout.
 
My PS3 is just shy of its 5th birthday now, and boy does it let you know it. The fans start to kick into beast mode after about an hour and it actually makes me not want to play it, in fear of it malfunctioning.

Gonna pick up Bioshock Infinite, but I reckon MH3U will be getting more playtime
 
Mine is an expensive netflix/amazon streamer. Come to think of it I don't think I've played more than a few hours of anything on it except demons souls ever.
 
My all in one system now. Sold off my 360 and 45 games last week. Have more than enuff for next gen and then some. Honestly, just Microsoft had nothing left for me this gen. Sony on the other hand keeps on giving the goods.
 
Since I finished building my gaming PC, my PS3 has been used very infrequently. I just keep it for exclusives and for watching DVDs. My 360 has become practically useless to me.
 
I use Redbox a lot and the PS3 version of games always seems to be available so my PS3 is my "game rental" machine. Like many others it's also my Netflix box. Lately though I've been downloading way more games than I have time to play thanks to PS+. It's nice to see games like The Last Of Us and Beyond: Two Souls coming 7 years after the system launched.
 
After getting a new gaming/media PC, my PS3 is now the thing I swore it never would be: a blu-ray player.

Meanwhile, my 360 and my Wii continue to collect dust.
 
Netflix box even though my TVs have Netflix as well. Also a Youtube box since the app is a lot better than what's in my TVs or on XBMC since that damn app keeps breaking any time Youtube makes a change.

I would say it's also a bluray machine but honestly watching blurays is for chumps as I rip everything and stream it to my HTPCs using a shared MYSQL database with XBMC so that I can stop watching a movie in my living room and resume from the same point in my bedroom. But honestly, the main use for my PS3 is for playing Battlefield 3 even though I bought it on PC when it was on sale for $12.

I didn't get Premium and the thought of having to unlock all that shit again just made me decide to stick with playing on PS3 and start fresh with BF4 on PC.
 
A secondary gaming device that plays games that don't get ported to PC. It was my primary gaming device for a nice while though.
 
Its my Blu-ray player.

My MGS4 player.

My Demon's Souls player.

My Bleach game player.

My Buzz Quiz/Guitar Hero/Rock Band player.

I have other games but none important to mention. I've mainly consoled on Wii and Xbox this gen but the above listed is reason enough to own the system for me, only a few but they were I must have these.
 
It's my little love machine'-)

...
Netflix
PSN games
Here and there AAA title
Back-log of old recommend titles from the past 5 years
Blu-ray player
 
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