is ps3 retro?

[Clippy]

Well my Character looks like an Anime boy so.....;) does that count.

We know you're just saying what Hilde thinks.

 

[C-MS]

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Can't think if that is good news or bad news. Thanks anyway bro

 

[thecrow2313]

Can't think if that is good news or bad news. Thanks anyway bro

I loved it most haunting soundtrack by Daniel Licht, he composed the soundtracks to Dishonored games including TV series Dexter.

 

[Sumea]

No.
Not in my opinion. Anything with HDMI and Bluetooth controllers will never be "retro" in my eyes

Well, usually that has to do with age.
Was NES Retro when PS2 came out? Was NES retro when Xbox 360 launched then?

The numbers today say, that PS3 is today older than Mega Drive was when Xbox 360 launched, with MD's few years of head start compared to SNES which makes the figure even more slanted.
HDMI has been around for well over 20 years, HDMI as a thing is not exactly most modern tech either, and given how extended in life and compatible oldest versions currently still are, this view makes it really weird. People definitely saw SNES and NES as Retro in 2002-2007, and some of those "retro" games were very new still at the time, like chrono trigger coming out less than 10 years earlier, or to be launched for the first time officially in few years to future depending where you live. Chrono Trigger officially launched in Europe for DS in 2009, and was hyper popular game to emulate. Now systems that have almost third more in their age today are refused to be seen as retro from denial and robust video standard, even though PS3 is widely a 720p system compared to modern 1080p and 2160p targets.

Though, it is interesting this view holds itself and to me it speaks of an effect that I feel video games have been suffering because of lack of perceived technological progress. PS5 age marks almost clear downgrade in that regard. The leaps were humongous from NES to SNES to PS1 slapping everyone's nuts to PS2 slapping them nuts twice harder, Xbox 360 and then slow burning from behind PS3 slapping their relative acorns. But at this stage the leap from PS2 to PS3 looked more like a hop that HDTV compatibility and HD resolutions bolstered into impressive with the graphical upgrades but it was nothing like from PS1 to PS2. Then PS4 comes out and the leap is not even really there. Graphical fidelity made an iteration, not a leap forward. A lot of games launched on both PS4 and PS3 more as a same game, nothing like what happened with PS1 and PS2 cross gen titles. To me, if you consider the time and what used to be considered retro relative to the time that had passed from launch or "death" of a system; 360 and PS3 are categorically, clearly cut retro at this point. But I can also understand that it does not feel like that when modern gaming has not been taking technological leaps like the games did for their first 20 years. This also includes game norms being so solidified, that a lot of console games still feel the same on PS5 as they did on PS3. FPS games have played more than less the same for decades. Souls games have been souling, and nothing has been a revolution to the games in the same way in years. Love or hate them, to me one of last revolutions was the battle royale genre of games that for sure needed the hardware to be executed in the way they were, not to talk about upgrades in internet technology to enable it too. Gaming has been diminished more and more of "revolutions" since PS3 started to wither away and that in my opinion is major factor in perception of retro.

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Retro is like 20 to 40 years old. PS3 released 2006-2007.

Like I surmised, this logic would dictate that in 2004, the only popular game system considered retro would be Atari VCS and maybe Donkey Kong and Pac-Man arcade cabinets, and NES would cross over to being considered retro only when XBOX 360 launched, and SNES would not be retro at this point.
I feel at the time, even though in reality last SNES release in Japan was still somewhat fresh, that most people in 200X considered NES and SNES retro, even though they were not even nearly 20 years old at that point.

 

[ThatOneLum ThatOneLum]

I think that the PS3 doesn't "feel" retro to a lot of people, which is understandable. It doesn't take much pointing out to recognise that the generations that came before the PS3 all had their own distinct levels and feels that sort of evaporated after 7th-gen consoles launched.

All those caveats aside, the PS3 is retro to me.
It's got basically 2 decades under its belt, and the industry has moved on from a lot of the design sensibilities of the era (Project Ten Dollar, Everything is greeny-brown, etc). I understand why people don't agree, but for me, it just about pushes the threshold.

With the PS6 likely launching in a couple of years, it's only going to get harder and harder for people to keep making the argument that the PS3 isn't a retro system.

 

[Sumea]

Yeah. If people asked "is Wii retro?" even though the age is just about the same, Wii definitely clicks as retro to people even if it has bluetooth controllers. HD era has been undeniably slow to progress.

 

[C-MS]

Yeah. If people asked "is Wii retro?" even though the age is just about the same, Wii definitely clicks as retro to people even if it has bluetooth controllers. HD era has been undeniably slow to progress.

The Dolfin agrees with you man. And dolfins are smart unlike me. So you must be right.

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

Really the PS3 is a console that is part of the 7th Generation of Consoles and as it has been in existence for 18 years it looks more like a classic console than it seems as well as the competition (XBOX 360, WII) that have been in existence for 19 and 18 years and are also considered classic consoles due to the time that has passed from 2005-06 to the present which is 2025.

Because if we talk about retro consoles of 7th Generation they would be the handheld consoles that really opened the doors in that generation of consoles you know (DS, PSP) that both consoles are 20 years old and are considered retro due to the long time that has passed from 2004 to the present day, which is 2025.

 

[Varyag]

It's two console generations ago, games still came on physical disks that you could play without an internet connection. Yes it is retro.
Furthermore, given the current state of AAA gaming, I'm willing to call "retro" anything from 10 years ago and older, sliding scale. This close to calling the PS4 retro too.

 

[Arklem]

Stuff these days take so long to come out anyway that it feels surreal to call the PS3 retro, but it's almost 20 years old by this point, i think it's retro enough now...

 

[jankusanagi jankusanagi]

No.
Not in my opinion. Anything with HDMI and Bluetooth controllers will never be "retro" in my eyes

Oh, when videogames are all holographic, with no cables and no controllers, you'll call this "retro", I'm sure

 

[Clippy]

Furthermore, given the current state of AAA gaming, I'm willing to call "retro" anything from 10 years ago and older, sliding scale. This close to calling the PS4 retro too.

That would make The Witcher 3 retro. Can't wait to see it in the repo.

 

[Miles Miles]

When most people think of retro games they think of the 3rd and 4th gen consoles, not the 7th gen consoles. I don't think the 20 years old is retro rule works anymore because gaming is now changing too slowly.

 

[Segadude113]

is FFXIII trilogy considered to be retro now? I guess so. I mean we're on FFXVI now so yeah. lol

 

[nathman]

It's older than Halo Reach. Yes it is retro.

 

[UnDubious]

It's two console generations ago, games still came on physical disks that you could play without an internet connection. Yes it is retro.
Furthermore, given the current state of AAA gaming, I'm willing to call "retro" anything from 10 years ago and older, sliding scale. This close to calling the PS4 retro too.

PS4 games are literally still coming out, so this makes no sense. Normal commercial games, not fan projects or tiny indies.

 

[Segadude113]

PS4 games are literally still coming out, so this makes no sense. Normal commercial games, not fan projects or tiny indies.

PS4 games are still coming out because not enough people bought PS5. :p

 

[Faust03]

no because I'm still living in 2008

 

[Don Patch]

It's only really retro when career ebay'ers feel the need to charge 150% more for it and label it "Retro gaming".
They're the real authorities...

 

[job32]

It will be retro when there is an emulator that you can play the games flawlessly on your phone

 

[MasterEn]

can ps3 and xbox 360 counted as retro consoles nowadays?

i'd say that a game system is retro when you can no longer purchase the games at standard retail stores, like walmart, target or gamestop or from the companies digital store fronts, like the e-shop for the wii-u and 3ds, vita and psp; and the only way to purchase or obtain copies of the game are from second hand stores or from the 7 seas as i have the internet being referred to on occasion in a few youtube videos that i've watched.
if the ps3 and 360 don't fit into the first category, then yes, they are retro.

 

[snes9x]

Probably. Feels weird as hell to say but yeah. PS3/Wii launched 19 years ago and the Xbox 360 turns 20 this year. And that gen is a hard break from the past in many ways: HD graphics, game budget inflation, emphasis in online gaming, huge open worlds, motion controls, digital storefronts, DLC. It feels like the HD gen set the stage for the following generations to come. So even when we get to 2033 it's still gonna be hard to accept the PS4 is retro when we're just living the shadow of HD. Like, changed is coming so incrementally that we're stuck in a long sense of "presentenss" with these newer consoles.

 

[DrunkGecko]

No.
Not in my opinion. Anything with HDMI and Bluetooth controllers will never be "retro" in my eyes

That's honestly a good rule for what to consider retro

 

[Sumea]

That's honestly a good rule for what to consider retro

So, if I used a wired a USB wired Saturn controller on my PS3, it is now stopped being retro?
Is Xbox 360 retro, but PS3 is not retro because earliest Xbox 360 models do not have HDMI and none of them have Bluetooth controllers, specifically?
Does Wii stop being retro if you install a HDMI kit into it? How retro is Wii with just bluetooth controllers? Even though it is still from the same generation when it comes to time and support. Wii games were released up to 2015 still. Then again, SNES was very much considered retro in 200X when last official release was very fresh for that too, in 2002 Japan only.
This rule is very poor, and this rule will make it so PS3 is considered never retro. But Xbox 360 is already retro. Wii is like 50% Retro? What a sensible logical rule indeed. With this rule, one device is not retro, one, device is fully retro, and one device is maybe retro, and those are in that order PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii, even though they all share the same generation.

 

[DrunkGecko]

So, if I used a wired a USB wired Saturn controller on my PS3, it is now stopped being retro?
Is Xbox 360 retro, but PS3 is not retro because earliest Xbox 360 models do not have HDMI and none of them have Bluetooth controllers, specifically?
Does Wii stop being retro if you install a HDMI kit into it? How retro is Wii with just bluetooth controllers? Even though it is still from the same generation when it comes to time and support. Wii games were released up to 2015 still. Then again, SNES was very much considered retro in 200X when last official release was very fresh for that too, in 2002 Japan only.
This rule is very poor, and this rule will make it so PS3 is considered never retro. But Xbox 360 is already retro. Wii is like 50% Retro? What a sensible logical rule indeed. With this rule, one device is not retro, one, device is fully retro, and one device is maybe retro, and those are in that order PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii, even though they all share the same generation.

I was not aware Xbox 360 didn't start with hdmi