PS3 Received a New Firmware Update, By the Way

I can't even sign in with my PS3. They changed the way you do it, and it won't work for me

Funnily enough, I dug mine out of mothballs the other day to play some Ratchet. Just wrapping up the second one. I would play them on Vita, but the ports have never sat quite right with me.

I was very much surprised to see a new firmware update rolled out yesterday, to say the least.

Does it let you play PS5 games on it now?
Downgraded to 3fps and in 480i.

Been hitting up final fantasy 13 and star ocean 4 lately. Felt like doing some platinum trophy grinds so why not???

I actually plan to play the two Ratchets that I missed the 1st time around soon since I'm not going to have a PS5 in time for Rift Apart. The two in question are Quest for Booty and Into the Nexus.

My son is on it right now, playing F1 Championship Edition, released by Studio Liverpool (god bless 'em) in 2006!!

Still looks amazing, but even more so for a 15 year old game. Psygnosis truly were masters of their art.

Currently playing saints row 3 on it and just got enslaved off eBay so looking forward to that

I play mine almost every day along with my PS5.

I've been working through my backlog and finished Killzone 2 & 3, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus and currently playing Parasite Eve (I have an insane backlog).

Would have been nice to see them somehow patch out the battery issue.

I've been on the fence about picking one up again recently, have a real urge to play Dead Space 1 & 2.

Remember the tough decision of buying either a 20GB or 60Gb version? And remember how awesome it felt to have the 60GB version? Times sure have changed. Although I think I enjoyed video games more back then. But that’s because I spent less time on message boards.

@Kopite get an xbox and a month of gamepass. Play enhanced versions. Sell back if you will.

@Quintumply Resident Evil 4 all day erry day

Currently playing initial d that I imported from Japan and the remake of duck tales

@GoodGame
You need to log into you Sony account on the website and get the log in from there

My PS3 Slim is still connected to my TV, but has been used maybe twice since I got my PS4 back in 2013.

My original 60GB 'fat' PS3 with all the b/c is in its box in the spare room, and - as far as I know - still in full working order. I really should get it out and test it.

Least it's still being supported in a way.

@Ridwaano Thanks. Tried lots of times but it always says error.

Playing Demon’s Souls and stuff in 3D. Does this firmware update remove the CMOS battery dependency for playing digital?

GT 5, Twisted Metal, MW4. Still a great console.

Lots of comments about people still playing their PS3s. It's almost as if people still appreciate a consoles families back catalog of games.

Boy, if only there was a way to natively play old games on new consoles....

Seeing that pic makes me wish I still had my original PS3 - a thing of beauty.

Better dust it off, can't have too many performance and stability updates 😎

I use my to play NCAA Football

I loved the PS3. Got a 20GB launch one imported from the US (and paid insane money for it, too). Sadly, when I tried using it 1,5 years ago I couldn't stand the long downloads/installs, long loading times, crappy graphics (RDR looks terrible), sluggish system UI. The PS4 spoiled me, and now with PS5 next to my tv I don't see myself ever going back.

Until my family got a Switch six months ago, my kids were still using the PS3 every week. Its not played quite as much these days, and now that we have multiple streaming services, they don't use it as a Blu-Ray player nearly as often either. But its still kicking!

@gollumb82 i mean , the xbox360 was superior in almost every way compared to the ps3 ; im surprised people stayed all the way through with it during that time . i got a ps3 before i got an xbox360 and , when i got my xbox360 - oh man , it was no going back to ps3 even then .

i still like the ps3 and its got the best aesthetic design imo , but , the competition was just way in the lead.

I'm still hoping in vain for them to let you organise games alphabetically, but it's nice we're getting something.

@AhmadSumadi yeah , remember when games back then were only a measly 7-10GB with more content and quality than the 50GB+ games we have now ?

i was nearly content with 7th gen . Still one of the best generations of all time . multiplayer and single player quality games for everyone with new franchises & ideas still being made.

@ThroughTheIris56 Hehe that would be so sweet!!

Disable CMOS and then we'll be good.

Sure, they patched a 15 years old system to improve "stability"...

lots 😂 killzone trilogy , folklore , ico , shadow of the Colossus , dead space , assassin's creed trilogy. i have a huge games Library mostly discs its a ps2 compatible ps3 i have a ps2 and ps1 games library to. and always finding out new ways of keeping it going (a laptop fan mod in the power supply looks interesting) i used to internally wire a pc case fan to the xbox 360 to keep it going.

"improves system performance"

Yeah is to improve system performance with Hen/CFW I'm sure 🙂

Playing Grid and Driver San Francisco

@Juanalf 🙂filled two hard drives full of games I wanted to buy but not at the price the Store asks thanks to Hen....

Seen this yesterday when me and the gf were play Ratchet and Clank All 4 One.

Our PS3 still gets quite a bit of use. Hot Shots Golf World Invitational and Motorstorm RC were played over the past week on it. All our PlayStation family still gets used a lot, our PSVitas, PS3, PS4 and PS5!

Nearing the end of Peace Walker HD on my PS3 as we speak. Update took like 7 minutes so I made chicken patties in the toaster oven. Yum!

I played loads of PS3 last year, maxed out all the trophies on 10 games:
InFamous 1/2/FoB, Tomb Raider Legend/Anniversary/Underworld, Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock, Rain, Beyond Good & Evil, Papo & Yo.

I'm gonna go back and play some more PS3 titles when I'm finished with my current game (Shadow of Mordor). Maybe Resistance, Killzone, FF13... dunno yet.

I love my older games. I wish Sony would embrace backwards compatibility the way they used to, and the way Xbox currently does.

PS3 will be the next Sony console I purchase in the future.

@ThroughTheIris56 I never understood why PS3 didn't let you sort alphabetically. Utterly ridiculous!

@Link41x Try to get one of the launch models which plays PS2 titles.

Softmodded mine so won't be updating it

I used it as a seperate bluray and streaming player all the time... Since I got a PS5 my PS3 was replaced with my old ps4. Poor thing.

@JonTheGod Yep. It was as archaic as PS4 not letting you use folders or remove icons for deleted betas. At least the PS4 fixed those issues.

I wish Sony would lift the limit on only 2 Playstation 3’s maximum to have activated on your account. I have 3 and would like to hook the 3rd one up in another room lol 😂

I just finished Drakengard 3. Perfection. (Even with the frame rate issues and the screen tearing)

That picture brings back old wounds of YLOD on my backwards compatible PS3. Still so mad at Sony for that

Still playing tiger woods golf using the move controller. Excellent fun with the family

@GoodGame You need to go to the PlayStation website, go to account settings, go to security, under 2-step verification there is "Device Setup Password" then click "Generate New Password".

@JonTheGod i'm sure if it was possible they would but its not

Still use my PS3 for metal gear 4 and Daytona usa

@twitchtvpat Thanks. Will try later and let you know.

I found a lot of the cross-plat titles from the PS3/X360 era are better played on the One X or Series consoles for 4K upscaling and often better performance. For example, the original Red Dead Redemption is the best version and has smoothing in "quality" mode to sort out a lot of the jaggies. Dead Space is currently on Game Pass Ultimate as well, the whole series actually. Also great that Xbox Live for older Xbox 360 titles works too - I'm still able to play my favourite iteration of the Zombies mode in Call of Duty: Black Ops (the original) with friends across teh interwebz, which is great. Still gets an average of 40,000-60,000 people online at any one time too. A lot of the cross-plat games, on Xbox 360 versions they have higher base rendering resolutions as well (pre-DRS days too I believe) - for example the aforementioned BLOPS "the Xbox 360 game running somewhere in the region of 1040x608 while PS3 is closer to 960x544" according to this old EG article https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-tech-comparison-cod-black-ops-pc from our long-standing friends at Digital Foundry.

For any PS3 exclusives that never got turned into PS4-era games for use on my Pro, it's the best place for those, I suppose.

Oh and Psychonauts, kind of a cult classic, that's on Game Pass too and despite being 4:3 locked (I think; maybe there's a widescreen mode buried in the menus I haven't found yet) it's a good looking version of the game and plays great.

@GoodGame Definitely give that "Device Setup Password" in your account's security settings a go. For some reason, you need to create this second one-time-use password in order to sign in on a PS3, PS Vita or PSP now. After that you can continue using your regular password.

@GoodGame yes it became incredibly opaque and difficult. There’s a two step verification process or something. I did persevere and get it working to Pugh. So if you can be bothered to jump through the hoops it does work.

Why am i paranoid about adding a new update to my PS3 slim? Especially after the recent announced and then cancelled store closure. Sony may be annoyed that so many PS3's are still working and in regular use. Like the last 2 updates i am going to wait and see before updating my 11 year old original slim.

Recent plays on PS3; New Vegas and Naughty Bear Panic in Paradise.

I'm just firing up the PS3 as I'm typing this and playing RE Code Veronica X. Much better than playing the PS2 port on my PS4. I still have loads of games to get through on PS3.

@Maximumbob54 What battery issue

I wonder if this affects the ability to mod consoles.

@nomither6 Amen.

@Oval_Griffin CMOS battery dies then so do your digital purchases if you can't reconnect to the PS network.

@AhmadSumadi - Now, it feels like ascension to have a 1TB SSD installed. No more XMB crashes~ Now, if I could just gain the confidence to replace the thermal paste...

@AlienigenX — Draken3 definitely needs to get ported somewhere, prologue chapters included. PS3 is simply unkind to Unreal Engine.

The fact that sony still supports a 15 year old console is amazing

@KidBoruto Yea man, I find myself going back to it more nowadays than I did during the PS4s life cycle. Really enjoying playing through my old backlog.

@GoodGame I figured it out thought I spread the word as I had the same problem.

http://idp.sn/device-password

@Tankmatt Thanks