Is it because there will be no more physical games in future or because it's like retro?

With the announcement of Infamous 2 and FOB servers being shut down, there were SO so many people that ended up playing the game (some for the first time like me) to be able to get the platinum. I had only played Second son and first light, but decided to finally try 1,2, and FOB. Like me, so many other people for the first time discovered how great these games were, and just how much they liked the franchise. So the question begs, should more servers be shut down, so people feel a “FOMO” on the game and end up playing it for the first time, thus becoming a new fan?

If you look at psn trophies, you can see thousands and thousands of people earning the online trophies daily. I feel like this could be used as a good strategy to get more people interested in your game franchise. Of course this only works if you have an online function/ trophies tied to it. But a cool thought

I found a loose copy of the God of war omega collection. I think it only came out in South america and it contained all the gow games in 3 discs inside a cool looking steel book with a Kratos statue. I've seen the price going from 45$ for the steel book with the games only and up to 200?$ with the statue included. So when I saw it on Facebook for only 15$ I just grabbed it but the gow 3 disk came with a lot of scratches. I've only had a ps2 and that one rcould take heavily scratched games with no problems but I don't know if ps3 games are different or if it can cause more problems. At least the start of the game seems fine.

Grown and trimmed over the years, I'm pretty proud of it even though some classics like skate 2, resistance 2, and killzone 3 (the one from the trilogy doesn't work) are left. If anyone wants shawn white sb, sports champions, or rock band i'm happy to sell them

i wanted to buy some ps1 games from the store (pal), but the screen where you have to enter the name doesn't display the keyboard at all. what can i do?

I'll be honest and say that I have avoided this game purely on my dislike of the box art. Petty I know.

However, after recently watching a fabulous youtuber called Foolish Pedro and one of his videos, Gamings Best Hong Kong (part of a series of videogames best cities), I was made aware of this game. I thought it looked pretty cool.

After doing some research and deciding that the £15 PS4 edition can get lost, I went for the £5 PS3 option.

I've only done the opening few tasks but it's looking good so far.

What does everyone else think of Sleeping Dogs?

As many of you know the search bar on the PS3 store doesn’t work anymore and I’m having issues accessing the DLC I want to buy for Playstation All-Stars. I’m trying to get a few costume packs I don’t own plus Isaac. When you get to the store page the second half of the DLC list won’t load for me, it always stops after the Kratos avatar, and of course the DLC I want isn’t in the top of the list. When I access the store through the game itself it only loads 19 of the DLC items, again coincidentally none of which are the items I want. Does anyone know of any workarounds for this? The Complete DLC Bundle is $50 which seems kind of insane to me.

I have the dualshock 4 connected to my ps3 and paired wirelessly but for some reason it won't recognize any input from the controller at all

I live in North New Jersey looking to sell my PlayStation three and all my games. I’m not trying to ship it. I will sell it for a really good price or possibly trade. All the games are pretty basic except I have one expensive yakuza dead souls if anyone lives in north New Jersey and looking to get a PlayStation three collection let me know.

So I really wanna play persona 3 FES, SMT digital devil saga, persona 4 and maybe some other ps2 games also but I have a Mac so I can’t use pcsx2 and honestly I would rather not get hacked trying to find a BIOS anyway. Since the ps2 digital store no longer exists, I can’t just buy a ps2 but I heard that you can buy games for ps2 on the ps3 store and since sony will be shutting it down in 2027, i’ve decided that it’s now or never and I want to get a ps3 to play these games, I just have a few questions:

- once the digital store shuts down, will this also delete all my games bought from the digital store (I assume not but you never know with sony)

- does the ps2 classics shop have ever ps2 game or just some of them (I already checked that the main three that I want are on there)

- are the ps2 classics significantly worse on ps3 (like are they buggy or broken)

Thank you in advance!

(also I just know someone is gonna tell me to play p4g and p3r, I already have. Persona 4 and 3 fes are the only games in the series that I haven’t played yet)

Edit: also will I need memory cards?

I was playing The Last Of Us and fir the first time my CECHC03 showed a YLOD. i bought this ps3 a month ago and it had 43 days of use when i bought it. After the first YLOD, i suspected temperature even though i had webMAN. Anyway, i did 2 more tries. It showed YLOD again after 25 minutes. i got 2 dumps of SYSCON log and the new log was a 1001 error. Its not like the ps3 went under a lot of use for its CELL NEC/TOKINS to fail, that is why I'm creating this post. if you can help me find the real cause and how to fix it, i would really appreciate it

Hey guys, I wanted to mod my ps3 and my Xbox360, for the ps3 I have the slim version so I’m gonna do the Hen method. I wanted to know if I can use the same hdd for both modding and swapping it between the two consoles when I use them

So my ps3 has been collecting dust since 2017 and I decided to pull it out again and start playing it again plugged everything in and everything was good until I started playing games. My console would freeze like every 5 min into a game session so I figured it was time for new thermal paste since it's never been done before Tore the console apart repasted it put back together and launched my games. 10 mins in another freeze 🤦‍♂️ At this point that means my hard drive with all my orginal data on it is failing. Go into my computer parts drawer and grab a old Samsung 850 evo 120gb ssd I had from a gaming pc in 2016 throw that guy in. Starts playing games with no freezing great 👍.

But here's my question I lost all my old data with the reset so I started downloading all my old stuff and realized I dont have my save data anymore and all my dlc content and I see the Playstation store is shutting down next year in July. Will I have no access to all my digital content once the store closes for good ? Should I go out and buy a 500gb ssd and try to copy all my data from my failing hard drive to it and download everything else I purchased?

I got a YLOD PS3 CECHL03. I read up on the Syscon errors but the solutions seem to be a bit conflicting

I consistently got error 802124, 802024, 112142, 112024 and a singular 801002

NieR I bought thinking it was used, but it's factory sealed.

I ordered two controller cases specifically molded for the PS3's Dualshock controller from Controller Chaos, as I replaced mine with two Retro Fighters Defender Pros. I am keeping the two Dualshocks, but they are going into storage. I only found out recently that Controller Chaos is known for interminable delays and sporadically filling orders. I can't seem to find any alternatives in terms of cases specifically for PS3 controllers, versus generic cases that hold anything. Can anyone direct me to such a thing? Or am I 20 years too late?

received a fat from a friend, no display over HDMI or AV but displayed super recently for said friend like once and then never again, every time i try to do video reset or hard reset it doesn’t register me holding it down and then registers it later as a second power button press just really really delayed… please help!

I bought the system back when it was released to play MGS4 and played few games along in that generation of consoles. I didn’t think much of it. It wasn’t the PS2 or the PS1 in terms of library. I modded it few years ago. But seeing the shit show Sony and ps5 has become made me think that PS3 is an actually the ultimate PlayStation system. It’s really funny that a 20 years old system can be more enjoyable than current gen. A modded PS3 that is.

I bet the search will not get fixed.

As title said, those were the only actions I did. Can someone help me understand what could have happened? Is it bad?