Sony's Infamous E3 2006 Conference Now Viewable in Clear 1080p

Ah yes, now everyone can watch a mess of a conference in pukingly glorious 1080p quality

Jokes aside though, this is a piece of history and a generally good showing of what not to do lol

I want to watch the 2013 show again. That one was hilarious.

I feel like some people want to see current PlayStation fail so bad they’re bring up they old failures lol.

Why is Ted Price wearing a Phil Harrison’s worth of clothing?

@StrawberryTurtle Absolutely and especially when it managed to outsell the 360 at the end of the generation unless I'm wrong there.

It turns out the real giant enemy crab, was the friends we made along the way.

Sad thing is the system was an utter beast, with ps2 components inside for true BC along with a BluRay player that was stand alone 1k when this thing launched. It was marketed poorly but was a STEAL when it released. Ps3 might be my favorite of them all. Journey, Killzone, Uncharted, TLoU, Motor Storm, Demon Souls, MGS4....it had so, so many bangers

God of war 3 and grand theft auto 5 was my 2 favorite ps3 games.ps3 is one of the best console ever.word up son

This is the only thing I wanted from PlayStation this year!

The introduction of real time weapon change is a watershed moment in gaming history.

I don't think I saw the conference back then, but why was it bad? I never bought the original PS3 as I was still in School. But I thought it was cool and wanted it so bad. And I liked that it was backwards compatible. I got the later model and was kinda disappointed it didn't support PS2 games.

Even with this, which was Sony at their worst, Microsoft at their best still couldn't beat them.

@StrawberryTurtle The PS3 was expensive sure but you got what you paid for and then some the system came with features that you had to buy separately on the 360 not to mention it was a product that didn't have a High failure rate.

Ahh, that PS3 logo in Spider-Man font. And this wish for „photo realistic“ graphics resulted in a mess of grey and brown and poor frame rates which didn‘t age very well. After a promising start of the PS5, I‘m a bit afraid that we will come back to this again.

Disastrous launch aside, the PS3 Phat BC models (plus the 25xx series Slims) are personally my favourite Sony home consoles.

With the Phat it's the UI, the speed of having the whole OS on NAND flash, excellent smoothed out PS2 1080p upscaling (Burnout 3 especially looks great), how mature the homebrew is to allow you to set custom fan curves and run ISOs from internal SSD as well as GPU overclocking to push FPS up on a lot of intensive games including TLoU and Beyond: Two Souls.

Ridge Racer 7 was a killer launch time title as well, still looks crisp and clean with it's 1080p60 presentation too. Doesn't suffer from that full two-tone palette/excessive garish bloom effect problem common to some titles of this generation.

So yes I'll definitely watch this and enjoy how they turned a car crash into a winning result over time.

@4kgk2 No one wants to see Playstation to fail... even if SONY tries so hard to do so.

@CutchuSlow Same here my friend... I'm still secretly jealous on my friend who has 60gb ps3...

@CutchuSlow It wasn't Xbox one debut bad, or Wii Music bad or Mr caffeine bad, but it was bad. It was somehow a playstation that lost the narrative while sitting in first. In a different way that Spreadsheet Jim that hates his customers. That one was a PlayStation that forgot video games weren't something they'd just invented that day.

It's classic PS at it's worst but not as unlikable as Jim makes it. They were just completely out of touch

Having said that though, I still love ps3 more than PS2 or PS4.... And if not for psvr2, even PS5. Can't touch ps1 though. Nothing can.

I got my ps3 when gta5 released. So very late in the cycle and it was a super slim. Very good deal

Ps2 was the best. Back in the days when you could play pirate games on a ps2 by using a piece of tape to crack the system.

@StrawberryTurtle no, dude, what saved sony was phenomenal buid quality and bluray drive. Xb360 were getting bricked left right and centre and replacing them in EU wasn't as easy as in US back in the day. Also, a lot of people were buying ps3 as a cheaper bluray player with added game console features. You wouldn't believe it but back then semi good bluray players were 800 to 1000 eur if memory serves well.
Of course, late years of that gen served PS3 well because the machine could do more than xb360.
Early days tho... not a single third party game worked better on ps3 than on xb360.

@Nyne11Tyme only US and I think Japan got the ps3 that had hardware BC. The EU BC version had a software emulator.

Ah yes, the giant enemy crab (among other 'infamous' moments) event, can never forget that.