PlayStation 3

“it's a very usable console and can still play games online with no issues and no paid subscription”

“i went through four or five with varying issues. yellow light of death, blinking red light”

“PS3 is a great Blu-ray player IMO. Solid console, solid controller, good laser implementation.”

“Really the PS3's only saving grace was it was a great deal for a Blu-ray player.”

“PS3 does it and has resumed discs I played years ago.”

“From a systems standpoint, it worked very well. High uptime and really nice thermals.”

“quite well if your workload could deal with its limitations”

“the whole system was so RAM constrained”

“PS3 was peak PS split-screen gaming and peak PS compatibility with previous consoles.”

“as a negative in terms of practical usability”

“Seems like ps3 was kind of the sweet spot in terms of decent graphical capability”

“PS3 used the (free) servers only for matchmaking and all online games were hosted on the consoles themselves”

“I can use all sorts of modern and DIY controllers on my modded Xbox 360 and PS3”

“it was around the same price as a standalone Blu-ray player as those were just coming to market”

“Ps3 is painful! You are waiting on a lot of stuff just to swap on and off the HDD”

“getting a game console, CD player and DVD + Blu-Ray player all in one box was pretty convenient”

“apparently my two primary school kids are nobodies for enjoying their PS3”

“Remember that time Sony took away features from the PS3 that were advertised selling points?”

“the advertised functionality of the device was crippled after the customers bought them”

“having to wait for it to slowly copy XX gigabytes of data to the hard drive”

“A PS3 is still useable today even with the store gone”

“My ps3 stopped working shortly after receiving the check due to bad solder”

“it plays all the same kinds of games I'd want to play on a 4 or 5, with similar graphical fidelity”

“they've been excellent physical media players”

“Sony advertised at launch then took away after people bought the consoles”

“Playstation3 was the first and last console that supported standard USB controller”

“When Sony removed that in an update I was bummed because that's one of the reasons I bought it.”

“Sony providing the tools to make your own theme with the PS3”

“the 7 usable Cell units have small memories of 256kb each so processing had to be moved to a compact/streamable memory format”

“It was the best 40EUR spent on gaming, all it took was to install firmware with HEN”

“the PS3 satisfied my needs to relive childhood memories”

“The PS3 was incredible value dollar-to-flop, given that it was sold at a loss.”

“You couldn't buy anything close to it's capabilities (for that specific task) for the money.”

“Look at the Other OS controversy on the PS3 if you want an example of this in practice”

“stationary gaming consoles have been held back by slow (optical) storage”

“A launch model PS3 and a PS5 can play PS1/2/3/4/5 game discs, as well as PSN games, so that's pretty good.”

“I wasn't an early adopter and only bought a PS3 in 2010. In the intervening 15 years I have bought four Blu-Rays”

“It had a unique architecture that made it especially useful for HPC”

“It wasn't just cheap - it provided the compute of 30 desktop computers in the space, power, and price envelope of one.”

“We got a PS3 at home for this very reason, needless to say my brother and I were ecstatic.”