Sony Ships Its Last Ever PlayStation 3 In Japan (engadget.com) 64
After 11 years, Sony has stopped shipping the PlayStation 3 to retailers in Japan. The country stopped production on the 500GB model in December last year, but now a recent update on PlayStation Japan's website suggests that the other lingering units have all been shipped as well. It's only a matter of time before the console stops being produced altogether in other parts of the world. Engadget reports:
Selling over 70 million units in just seven years, the PlayStation 3 was certainly a console to be reckoned with. Yet, for all its achievements, the long-surviving gaming machine initially made a name for itself for all the wrong reasons. With Sony riding high on the PlayStation 2's market-leading sales numbers, its successor launched at the eye-watering price of $499 -- and consumers weren't too happy about it. Luckily for Sony, publishers stuck with the pricey console, and exclusive games like Uncharted, Heavy Rain, The Last Of Us and Metal Gear Solid 4 helped to right the course of Sony's initially water-riddled ship. With the sun-setting on the aging console in the East, the news doesn't bode well for the future of the PlayStation 3 across the rest of the world. Sony has previously announced that PS Now will soon move exclusively to PS4 and PC. While few players will be mourning the loss of the pricey service, there are many PS3 owners still benefitting from free games on PlayStation Plus and downloading new content from the PS Store. As Sony slowly begins to start winding the console down, it's unlikely that gamers will be able to continue to use these services for much longer on the aging gaming system.
As a former PS3 developer (Score:2, Interesting)
Good riddance.
I dont get it. (Score:3)
Other than having an existing PS3 games library, is there any other reason to buy a new PS3 even after the PS4 came out?
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I'm about ready to stop visiting Slashdot after coming here since this site started.
Huh? I've been on Slashdot for 15 years, and they've had trolls like that as long as I've been here. Not defending them, but they're hardly new.
The GNAA thing must be at least ten years old by now, and "penis bird" is even older than that IIRC.
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I'm about ready to stop visiting Slashdot after coming here since this site started.
Huh? I've been on Slashdot for 15 years, and they've had trolls like that as long as I've been here. Not defending them, but they're hardly new.
The GNAA thing must be at least ten years old by now, and "penis bird" is even older than that IIRC.
This is the reason for mod points [slashdot.org]. The idea is that posts like this will be modded down beneath your threshold [slashdot.org] so you don't see them.
A few things:
* First, don't feed trolls. Mod them down (if you have mod points) and let them lie - forget them, let the system do its work.
* Second, if you don't know what mod points are, you aren't logging in with an account, you aren't reading or posting often enough, or you aren't paying attention.
* Third, it's a thing that troll posts don't actually go to oblivion... I'v
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Re:I dont get it. (Score:5, Insightful)
Given the PS4 cannot play PS3 games, yes, you need a PS3 if you want to play a PS3 game. If you don't have a PS3, you need to buy a PS3. And that's either new or used. (The xbone can play some xbox360 games through emulation).
Or you sign up for Sony's "Playstation Now" service which is restricting access to PS4s and PCs only now and play remotely. But if you have a PS3 game that's not ported to PS4 or on PSNow, well, you need a PS3. And there can be a few of those.
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As I recall, it was more the other way around. The PS3 sound subsystem was based on the PS1 architecture, so emulation came at little extra cost and they simply left it in. The PS2 emulation was completely a "bag on the side", and went away after the first generation of PS3.
The PS4 and Xbone are complete re-designs to have PC-like architectures. The original Xbox was very much a PC architecture, but the X360 was only moderately so, but the PS2 and PS3 both had very custom architectures that (IMHO) in the e
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That's not correct.
The PS2's sound architecture was based on the original PlayStation.
The PS3 was done entirely in software on one of the SPUs and was (for the most part) handled by the OS.
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Initially the ps4 didn't support DLNA. Last time my ps3 died, I bought another ps3 even though the ps4 was out because it still didn't support DLNA at that point in time.
I barely use it for games. I use it for Netflix, Amazon Prime, DLNA off a home file server, DVDs and Blu-rays.
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Initially the ps4 didn't support DLNA. Last time my ps3 died, I bought another ps3 even though the ps4 was out because it still didn't support DLNA at that point in time.
I barely use it for games. I use it for Netflix, Amazon Prime, DLNA off a home file server, DVDs and Blu-rays.
I had exactly the same experience as you. It looks like Plex is available [www.plex.tv] for PS4 now though!
Re:I dont get it. (Score:5, Interesting)
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you're really not getting the point of trackmania if you were expecting collissions XD :). rather than frustrating eachother by trying to push eachother off the road (which would be too nasty in trackmania, the tracks are simply not made for that), and ofcourse the trolls who just want to ruin the game for everybod, it becomes a tense race knowing that winning or losing is all up to you. an
it's indeed different in that way from other racegames, but allows for very intense races in a completely different way
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and i haven't played the latest trackmania, but i assume it's still in there: even without split screen, the hot seat mode can be fun if you're both equal in skill.
One player sets a time, and then the other player has to race until he/she beats that time, and so it goes on, until one of the 2 players runs out of time (you both get say 5 minutes in total).
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Disc Jam is pretty awesome, even more so with 4 players. (Mixup of Frisbee and Tennis)
Riptide Renegade for Jetski/Stuntracing
Blazerush (singlescreen) gets really chaotic with 4 players in death race.
Trackmania is about finding the perfect line, hence no collisssions.
Alienation for a Diablo3 clone in a sci fi setting (coop)
I *think* there is even a filter for local MP in the PS Store.
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Borderlands: The Handsome Collection gets you 2 shooters + a lot of DLC and it can be played split-screen on PS4, up to 4 players.
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Is it only cooperative or does it offer competitive play?
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--Another vote for Borderlands 2. Been playing it for a couple of years with my wife in splitscreen, still fun. PROTIP: Since the bank vault and Claptrap's locker have limited space, we create secondary characters to use for collecting weapons, artifacts, char-specific mods, and keeping extra in-game cash.
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Or have a Switch. The latest one being the first Nintendo console which in its minimum purchased form was multiplayer.
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I don't know if I'd buy a new one, but I am certainly not getting rid of the one I have. It's basically my media entertainment center. I use it for these things:
1. Media streaming: Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, HBO, and Youtube, Tunein
2. Audio player for my vast mp3 collection.
3. Video player for any H264 files. It's easy to get them onto the PS3 by the means of USB or through the web browser connecting to a home server.
This really beats the modern "smart TVs" which spy on your web activities and even record your
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I didn't expect them to be updated for long. But then again, it's a surprise that PS3 was being sold until now. There is a whole lot of those consoles out there. I assume the apps will continue being updated.
Shame it's' not emulatable.. (Score:1)
As the PS3 becomes "retro", the DRM in PS3 means as consoles die games will be lost forever. In 2040 you'll still be playing Super Mario World, but not The Last of Us.
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Actually you should be rejoicing.
Once Sony finally stops all support for the PS3, something that's much closer and more likely now that they're finally completely running out of stock, the odds of them trying to patch out jailbreaks going forward will be much lower.
Heck, even if they DID try to patch out future jailbreaks after completely stopping all service for it, nobody's likely going to care since Sony will have precious little incentive to get anyone to patch the console.
They won't be able to connect
PS3 Linux (Score:4, Interesting)
Speaking of which, it would be nice if their last patch before ditching the console did re-enable the "other os" option, this time with the hyper visor officially giving access to all resources.
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Speaking of which, it would be nice if their last patch before ditching the console did re-enable the "other os" option, this time with the hyper visor officially giving access to all resources.
They won't ever do that. They double-extra won't ever give it to you with a hypervisor which gives access to all resources, but the truth is that Other OS made it too easy to rip Blu-Ray.
Lawsuit settlement killed any chance of that (Score:1)
That and they already payed out millions (in theory anyway) as part of a class action lawsuit for disabling the feature. If they dug in their heels that hard, there's no way they're going to re-enable it.
Piracy (Score:2)
They double-extra won't ever give it to you with a hypervisor which gives access to all resources, but the truth is that Other OS made it too easy to rip Blu-Ray.
How so ?
I vaguely understand the logic behind the game piracy scare :
- apparently some frustrated tinkerer found an unofficial way around the hypervisor limitations, and that would in theory open up way to devise solution to run commercial games under OtherOS without the copy protection kicking in.
But how would a PS3 running OS help ripping Blurays differently than a USB3 Bluray drive connected to a laptop ?
Or did you meant "ripping the encryption key out of the player's RAM" ? (something along the way of :
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PS3's were 'blessed' and under a older firmware could just dd any Blu-ray disc in them, easily creating raw iso files
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For the lulz (Score:2)
Why even bother? At this point for most practical purposes something like a Raspberry Pi is a much better hardware.
Why is there homebrew community for DreamCast, NeoGeo, and even older (Megadrive, etc.) consoles when a modern Pi will pack more power than any of them ?
Because some people have fun tinkering with hardware.
Some people actually enjoy the intellectual challenge on trying to make something work on constrained hardware.
(See the demoscene on very old machines: 8-bits computers like C64, original IBM PC, etc.)
OtherOS was shut down by Sony on the grounds of helping piracy.
Now that they won't produce anymore offici
We said that about the Saturn (Score:2)
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As far as I know every PS3 title can be decrypted and accessed since the root metldr keys (stored in unchangeable firmware) have been obtained which means every piece of the firmware can be decrypted in turn on down to the keys used to decrypt actual game disks (regardless of how old or new those disks are).
Not sure if Sony released a newer PS3 with new metldr keys but even if they did, just get the firmware update for the PS3 with the old metldr keys and work from that to get the latest keys for decrypting
"Cheap" BluRay player + OtherOS Cluster (Score:2)
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Missing from summary (Score:2)
The last patch (Score:2)
Re-enable the "Other OS" boot option and kiss it goodbye.
Nah, won't happen...
And this is why I love PCs (Score:2)
Also, so far, it's been much better than the consoles in preserving backwards compatibility. In a modern PC with Windows you can play most games made in the last 10 years, many in the last 20. The rest of them (ok,. I'm sure some you can't) you can run in a VM on the original OS for which they were designed.
Of course, it has bad things. For me, the biggest one is that you're tied t