- You've asked for it!
And asked for it!
We are finally building the ultimate PS3 today.
And that's not entirely just because the store
is shutting down and we won't be able to do this video
after the shutdown and it's sad.
So, you might notice,
this PS3 that we're starting with
looks a little different, right?
A little, a different color,
a little bit of a different language on it.
This is a Japanese 80 gig PS3.
Now, generally speaking
the very best PS3 you can buy is the original 60 gig model,
the fat one, which had that full backwards compatibility.
You're talking PS1 games, PS2 games in hardware.
This actually has all those same features
except that it does software backwards compatibility
for the PS2 games.
Most importantly, I think it looks a lot cooler.
Is that a real DualShock?
- [Ken] Wait, that's a DualShock?
- Wait, yeah, it's a DualShock 3.
Wait, hang on a second.
- [Ken] Wait. (chuckles)
Hold up. Hold on. Wait.
So if I remember correctly
'cause not all the 80 gigs have backwards compat.
So, I think if it came with a DualShock 3,
I didn't double check it,
but I also thought I read the right one
but if it comes with the--
- Are you saying
that we're 17 seconds into building ultimate PS3
and this is not the ultimate PS3 already?
(gentle music)
- [Ken] I do want to however,
make it up to you.
- Okay.
- I have my collection of PS3 and PS2 games.
- Okay.
- PS2 games won't work but the PS3 ones will.
- Well, yeah.
I hope the PS3 games work in the PS3, Ken,
that would be really helpful.
Why is your Amex in here?
Did you forget your credit card?
(laughing)
- That was where the lost card was.
- You lost your credit card (laughing)
Wait, why did you put your credit card in here?
- I have no idea.
(both laughing)
- Can you imagine
a worst start to this video?
That is minty.
Oh my goodness.
Wow. Look at that.
- [Ken] Japanese market PS3, they take care
of their consoles, especially the ones that you buy online.
- You know what?
Even though this might be the,
not be the PS3 that we were looking for
and you lost your credit card,
it's a nice looking system.
I gotta say, it is a nice looking system.
So with our 80 gig, white PS3, the next step is simple.
Let's upgrade it, shall we?
To make our PS3 just a little bit more ultimate,
we have more terrible cooling fan.
Why do we keep doing this to ourselves?
Every building the ultimate has to have some useless fan.
This is gonna look like
there's like something stuck in the PS3's teeth.
Oh, gross. Look at that.
Look at that.
(groaning)
(laughing)
This my friends,
has a little thing called an SSD.
Now while yes, inside the PS3
we might have a near 80 gig hard drive,
the thing is you can actually easily
upgrade the PS3 hard drive.
I've actually never done this before,
but that's actually one
of the things that I will give Sony props for,
they've always made it easy to upgrade
pretty much every PlayStation that has had a hard drive,
you could swap it out.
So, there is a limit, right?
You can't just put anything inside the PS3.
But I believe it only supports,
it's either 500 gigs or it might do one terabyte,
I guess we'll find out.
But for now we have a 480 gig SSD
which I think should be a massive improvement
over the 80 gigs inside.
Say what, we're thinking ahead here.
That is dead simple.
That took like two seconds,
it's one screw.
So many people have asked us to build the ultimate PS3.
I mean, we've done the ultimate PS4, the ultimate Switch.
We even did the ultimate 360 a while ago.
(upbeat music)
Oh look at that.
With our SSD on the caddy,
we should, we just be able to drop it right into place,
and clicks.
And then we use our final screw.
And there we go.
We've got 480 gigs of flash storage inside our PS3.
Let's see if this thing actually boots up now though,
'cause that actually might be a slight problem.
We may need to re-install the drive.
This is a eight terabyte, WD_Black external hard drive.
Now this is more meant for like a PS4 and Xbox One.
I actually don't know
what this will do for the PS3
'cause you can't install games on the external hard drive
but you can like copy a game over to it.
You just can't run it from the external hard drive, right?
- [Ken] I think there's some game data
that you can transfer.
But the cool thing about the PS3
was that it was a really good media machine.
So you could play lots of videos and music.
- Oh, yeah.
I wonder though.
There's no way the PS3 is gonna accept
a full eight terabytes, right?
Oh man.
That's a big chungus.
That's a humongous chungus,
as the kids say.
(object clattering)
(gentle upbeat music)
All right, I take it back.
This is the humongous chungus.
Well, I guess there's nothing else for it.
What's inside this box?
Monitor stand?
Oh, is this the PlayStation TV,
or the, what is it,
The 3D TV?
Ken, you actually had one of these, right?
- [Ken] I did.
I used it as a computer monitor in college.
- This seems like an excessive amount of packing
but hopefully it arrived.
Wow. Look at this.
Look how well packed this is.
This is great.
I mean, I can kick this around the room right now.
(paper tearing)
- [Ken] You're not done yet?
- I'm not done yet.
It's still going.
And there's cardboard.
I will say one thing.
This is a device which is incredibly difficult
to find in 2021
because the PlayStation 3D TV was notorious for failures,
probably because they really pushed this technology
beyond what it was comfortable with.
You really couldn't find 240 hertz displays
back in, you know, 2010, 2011.
And therefore the vast majority of these PS TVs are dead now
at this point.
Supposedly, this one is working.
I will believe it when I see it.
All right, fire it up.
Does it work?
Looks fine to me.
Look at that.
(gentle music)
A'ight, well, I think it's time.
Let's plug in our ultimate PS3,
and see what happens.
Hopefully some combination of all this actually works.
(gentle music)
I like that noise a lot.
Hey, it even defaults to English?
What the hell?
The system software cannot be run correctly.
Obviously there's nothing on this SSD
that's ever been formatted or anything like that.
Okay. We'll be right back after we install
an actual operating system on our PS3.
And so my friends, the ultimate PS3 is alive.
I like all, we jump into the store and like,
"Hey, why don't you go buy yourself a PS4?"
We've been a little bit behind.
Obviously we're using a DualShock,
and you know, that makes sense.
But because this was a Japanese model
the X in the O have been flipped.
So I hit O to enter instead of X
which is a bit of a mind
I'm not gonna lie.
Give me Black Ops III for PS3?
They still made all the way in Black Ops III?
Damn man.
- [Ken] I love how CoD 4 is still 20 bucks.
- CS:Go?
There was CS:Go for PS3?
What the,
what? I wanna play that.
It doesn't even work online anymore, does it?
Whatever, I'm absolutely doing that.
15 bucks.
Sold.
We're saving these games from the sands of time.
Okay?
- It was a good time to give us a brand new update.
- And it's a great time to finally--
- What are you doing? - give PSReady a shout out.
So Jimmy has been running for the last couple of months,
an excellent PlayStation-based content channel
called--
(both laughing)
Jimmy is going to be giving away a PS5
to a random person who subscribes to the channel.
So what are you waiting for?
Go check out PSReady!
If you excuse me I'm gonna continue to build a PS3,
but I'll leave,
I should leave this with you and good job.
- Thanks.
- Keep making good videos.
I enjoy watching--
- This is empty.
(dramatic music)
- Okay. Now that we've got a few games downloaded,
looks, let's just see what all we can do on the PS3.
Well, listen to Spotify.
There's Spotify in the PS3?
Come on, we gotta play CS:Go, right?
Quick match. Offline with bots.
Let's do offline with bots first,
just,
(upbeat music)
- [Voiceover] Wow!
- PlayStation Move!
Oh, you're not gonna make me play CS:Go
with PlayStation Move, are you?
(laughing)
So if you're not familiar,
PlayStation Move was very much the Sony equivalent
to something like the Wii remote, right?
It was a way to get some motion controls into the PS3
which certainly was not designed to incorporate it.
So to make PS Move work,
we also have the PS Eye, spelled E Y E,
in case you're curious,
and this is essentially a webcam
that would help to track the lighted dot
on the end of the Move controller.
Oh, look at that.
Okay. So our PS Eye is now working
in a flawless capacity.
That actually this camera looks pretty good, right?
Okay.
Oh yeah.
Yo, how did I move?
Whoa.
Okay. Calm down.
Calm down.
Oh my God.
Okay. I'm gonna double fist it.
I'm double fisting.
Oh, that's so sensitive.
(groaning)
Okay. Wait.
(groaning and laughing)
(gentle upbeat music)
Ken, I don't think I'm the most competitive I've ever been
with a PlayStation Move controller.
If only I had a better controller
that would actually be useful.
(object clunks)
Was that a DualSense?
What do we a DualSense for?
Does a DualSense work with the PS3?
(gasping)
(cheering)
It just works.
Are you kidding me?
You just plug the DualSense in and it, that just works.
What?
(object clunks)
What is this?
Oh, these are the glasses for the TV, aren't they?
This is not any ordinary TV.
You need the very stylish PlayStation glasses.
Don't I look like I'm from 2021?
3D activate.
Whoa. Hello?
All right.
Let's try a game first.
Oh, wow.
That's some 3D right there.
Also. Can I just say
that the DualSense is working in this as well?
Yo, that 3D is legit.
Definitely a little bit of ghosting I see on the display.
Although part of that is just a reflection
of the room around me, but there's certainly
a major difference from in the glasses
what I'm seeing,
with like my hand and the gun and everything else, right?
There's definitely a couple of layers here.
This feels pretty ultimate to me.
There's clearly nothing
that's gonna improve this setup, right?
Like this is peak PS3.
What are you reaching?
What are you reaching for back there?
Huh?
What's that?
What is that?
Electronic material don't drop or crush.
(gentle music)
Austin, we'll be keeping an eye out
for if it's to be featured on YouTube.
Thanks, Nick.
Who is Nick?
What is that?
I mean it's well-packed but like, is this a stand?
Okay. So we've got a power adapter,
is that a little display or something?
Do you know what this is?
I actually don't know what this is.
- That is what I believe is Sony's first consumer OLED.
- This is an OLED?
Wasn't it like $5,000?
It's just something absolutely ridiculous
for an OLED that's this small?
Am I trippin?
How much did we pay Nick
for the LG OLED electronic 5000?
- [Ken] 900 bucks.
- $900 for this little display?
The OLED itself is very thin, right?
So the actual, the panel is really small here
but all the guts are in the base, right?
Including a speaker
and I'm sure all kinds of other nonsense.
So we've got a headphone jack.
We've got a cable,
oh, we've got a standard coax,
we've got a coax.
We've got a Memory Stick, power in and two HDMIs.
So we're gonna swap out the PSTV for this tiny OLED?
All right.
Who bought this at $5,000?
Why would you buy something so small?
I'm excited.
Goodbye PlayStation, 3D TV,
which actually looks good and has cool 3D features.
Let's experience the OLED future,
that is still expensive in 2021.
All right.
Nick gave us the remote for it
which is also a very thin cool remote.
OLED digital TV.
I mean, I gotta say this remote looks exactly
like what I thought the future should be in 2007.
I will definitely say that.
Power.
All right.
We're looking at static, but that static looks really good.
I mean, look at that, right?
Look how thin that is.
I mean, it's not surprising, right?
I mean, even in 2021
that's still really impressive,
because realistically,
OLED is still as good as it gets.
I mean sure,
OLED's gotten bigger and higher resolution
and all this kind of stuff.
The contrast of this display, even though it's only 540p
or whatever, still it's incredibly impressive today.
Woo. (laughing)
Yo.
Okay. So what you're seeing
on camera right now, the screen flickering.
I do not see that with my own eyes.
So that's just purely the way that the cameras were
like sort of clashing with the refresh rate.
In person, this looks every bit as good
as like a modern laptop with an OLED display, right?
I gotta jump into this.
Dude, you think this is bright?
It's at 50% brightness.
Wait, let's crank it.
Let's crank it.
Woo. (laughing)
That is so ridiculously bright.
I bet you can't even see that in the camera right now.
I like the fact that someone's spent $1,500 on this
like back in 2007 and yet it's still worth
like a thousand dollars today, right?
It really goes to show how ahead of its time
it really was.
I mean, this is absolutely more of a novelty, right?
But what is building the ultimate PS3
if it not a bunch of novelty with old PlayStations
and hard drives and controllers and like,
man, this is me in my happy place.
If you can't tell, this is me in my happy place.