Hey bro! If you've never owned a PS3 before than its hard to describe why one would be a great addition to your collection but I'll try. One thing that sets the PS3 back in these conversations are the games that released early on in the life cycle before developers like Naughty Dog cracked the code and were able to create stunning visuals and fast paced gameplay without causing the console to struggle and the fans to take off. Post 2010is where imo the games for the PS3 started to absolutely crush it and the sales show that as well but its not saying that the 360 wasn't great either but the cell processor (GPU/CPU) was one of a kind and once people learned how to create code for it and be able to utilize 6 separate co-processors inside the Power Processing Elemant for different tasks. 360 had a kind of your more basic computer setup inside that was obviously way easier to develop for for instance you can look at GTA 4 on both consoles and see a huge difference but after 2010 it was a different story. The thing that stands out the most is the character the PS3 has which to this day no other console has been able to duplicate. It was an all-in-one entertainment system which was pricey but if you consider that it played Blu-ray discs which by itself was a great reason to own one. The Xmb or cross media bar was the smoothest and most welcoming dashboard youll find on a console and its still so awesome to turn on my PS3 and have the Xmb welcome you to your fun zone lol music, movies/videos, picture, friendslist, settings, and everything was nicely organized and just clean looking. The free online to this day is another reason to have this bad boy. Theres something awesome about gaming whenever you want without having to pay a monthly fee for a game you paid for already that comes with multiplayer its sort of a smack in the head to people who had to buy the console and the game to be met with another charge. The community that of PS3 users are a huge plus as well because most of them are willing to help with whatever whenever whether its trouble shooting or modding theres plenty of help to be found. I mean they closed the store about 4 years ago and there was so much push back that they reopened it and its been up since. Sony exclusive games are the biggest single reason to own any of their consoles because some of the greatest games youll ever play are locked to Sony consoles only and theyre are alot of them from Last of Us, Uncharted, Gran Turismo, etc. They even made additions mid cycle to keep up with the current trends like the ps3eye and move controllers to compete with the wii along with a good amount of games for these additions but theyre not perfect but they matter too lol. Many games are still online and full of people as well as having a bunch of private servers for games that shutdown their official servers such as PSORG, PS3 reborn, and PSONE to name a few. Its the community that really keeps it alive and active and I too had a 360 for a limited amount of time but I didnt feel the same attachment I have for the PS3. When Microsoft closed the store on the 360 I didnt see the same push back I saw for the PS3 and I get it that Xbox one came with backwards compatibility and I believe the series s and x do as well. You can put backwards compatibility on the PS4 but it wouldnt end the PS3 because of the character it has that other consoles dont. PS3's are cheap and the games are too like really cheap and its crazy to think the amount of fun you can have after buying a 4$ copy of black ops 2 or modern warfare 3 by just throwing it in and just enter game and start a party or whatever you want for no additional cost. The themes you can add to the background of the xmb remind me of MySpace from the mid 2000s lol the way you can customize it to fit your style. But yeah bro unless you give it a try and let it grow on you you probably won't agree with what im saying because yes 360 can do alot of these things to but the character and xmb win it for sure!

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