I built that myself. Most of it is 3/4" ply. The shelves are side-screwed with 2-1/4" Spax screws, not resting on pegs (thus, also they can’t be moved). It’s not going anywhere.

From my limited understanding, the PS3’s architecture is actually very different from PCs and modern consoles. From a developer’s perspective, it was very different to make games for it, its capabilities and strengths and weaknesses were just different. So it’s no surprise that its games have a certain look and feel to them.

The PS4 and later, OTOH, is a more standard PC architecture which means iterative improvements and less difference between generations.

Disclaimer: didn’t fact-check any of this, would appreciate replies correcting mistakes

As a child of the eighties, it feels like post PS3 things totally stagnated but this is a couple of factors working together to create the illusion that there’s been no progress. First off we went from everything being 2d to everything being 3d in the course of a single console generation. There used to be huge and noticeable upgrades because models were getting so much more detail with every generation. There’s also the diminishing returns they’re getting on graphical enhancements; the leaps forward require massively more powerful hardware to render and most of the enhancement is in details and effects which aren’t as noticeable as doubling the polygon count of your models.

I picked up a cheap Wii to give it a try for the first time after looking into its library and finding out how many gems it had.

I’ve jailbroken a bit in the past, like the OG Xbox and PSP, but by god, the documentation available for jailbreaking the Wii is just superb, made it an absolute breeze to do. But what shocked me the most was the tools available post jailbreak. Being able to quickly connect the Wii to wifi and then have access to an extremely polished Homebrew software store, full of emulators and cool little community made games, which I could download directly to my wii effortlessly with the push of a button was something I had never experienced before with older consoles.

After playing around with it for a few weeks, it quickly went from a console I had passed over for decades as a gimmick, to literally my favorite console of all time. Such a great little box with so many games that give a totally unique experience. Also the balance board combined with Wii Fit and the multiple EA Fitness games for it offer a surprisingly fun way to motivate you to get some decent aerobic exercise.

It also helps that they’re really well made, quiet little devices that barely take up any room (and it doubles as a gamecube, too!)

Yes! My only complaint is games will sometimes freeze for a second. It’s particularly annoying for just dance. If you have any tips for that, I’d love to hear them. I’m using a flash drive instead of SSD, so maybe it’s that?

It’s been awhile since I loaded games onto storage, but back when I did it, that software was only available on windows. Idk if it’s gotten any better since then, but I have literally no reason to use windows other than hacking my Wii

as a 25 year old i agree, there’s no way xbox 360 is only 5 years younger than me, that thing came out recently what the hell

yea ! it’s the newest one ! gotta try that gears of war thing, looks dope ! let’s meet at 4 at my place ?? my mom made cookies

As long as your emulators on computer run at full speed, the hardware solution in phat PS3 has no advantage. Unless your gameplay depends on some specific hardware behaviour the software can’t or doesn’t emulate, which never happens for regular gamers.

Laughs in steam deck