PS Vita should be mentioned too. so unlike the newest "remote play only" handheld that Sony thought everyone wanted. the Near app, the Welcome Park doodads, the way social interaction was presented as this beautiful, optimistic future. all gone now...
Honestly when sony was at their best despite the massively expensive price point for the ps3. Sony allowing people to use these devices as machines that arent just gaming consoles is the entire reason I got into coding, hacking, and developing things.
Printing exists because the PS3 was a multi-media machine. So you could print your photos and screenshots from your console. BTW the printing would have worked way better if you selected the proper paper size you had and used photo paper.
You gotta remember, Sony was very ambitious with the PS3, where the pS4 and ps5 are really just games machines. Sony wanted the PS3 to be the center of your living room, a PC, and a games machine. The console had a web browser, keyboard and mouse support, as well as the ability to install linux.
I used my PS3 Slim as my computer for 2 months while I waited for my PC to be repaired. I went online with my PS3 and paid my bills just like my PC. The PS3 definitely had the same basic features as the PC. I never thought about using a printer. I didn't even know I could.
I once got music to my smartphone with my PS3. I ripped a CD to the PS3 hard drive, copied those MP3s to a USB drive, and then with a dongle I plugged the USB drive into my Android phone and copied them from there. 🎉😂
Fun story. This feature saved my ass in high school. I wrote a paper for my senior year English class. I didn’t want to pay to print at my library so I went home where my mom had a printer. I got home and learned that my little brother had pushed the family computer off the table and broke it. I was able to connect my flash drive to my ps3 and print my essay from there. God I love my PS3.
I actually used this feature A LOT to print off walk-throughs for RPG's & combo/move lists for fighting games. My mom would have a mini heart attack every time I moved the printer.
The paper you have is A4, so I think you can print the entire image without problems if you choose the A4 setting from the printing options on the PlayStation instead of Large (L) or any other option. Because it will frame the image at the appropriate size for the page :)
They're American so I doubt it's A4. Likely "Letter" (the top setting). Also turn off the gloss finish option, and select "borderless" and you should get a full sized print.
Trouble is his pics are so low res they'd look horrendous blown up to full A4 size. The printing feature was next to useless and helped push the price of the ps3 to the famous "if you can't afford it get another job" level of insult by the Sony exec.
A feature I loved was the screen saver for the audio tracks. They are mesmerizing. I especially loved the planet Earth one and I would just leave it playing in the background when people were over even with the audio muted.
Yeah, back in the day me and my friends used to print out Metal Gear Solid 4 pictures that we would take in the game. I really wish each PlayStation released with a newer version of the previous system OS instead of starting over each time. Edit: I'm talking in terms of features not the UI and presentation
But they needed to change because ps3 menu became laggy and slow to load the ps store and movie store at the time was both separate and basically an app then ps4 little better, ps5 just perfect I know its probably not what your talking about lol but took them few years to add themes to ps4 and even tho ps5 doesn't need them would be welcomed even as a option turn themes on or off but the MSG4 I did the same was a great game hopefully we get a ps5 version probably be weird as it basically made fun of xbox 360 without saying it with 3 discs and playstation 3 having blu-ray
@@zaidabraham7310fr the ps5 menu is more harder on the console anyway. A ps3 menu on a ps5 will take less space and run it 10x better then a ps3. Even through streaming you can try old ps3 games and they feel good
I remember seeing that feature, but never used it either. Having Tyrell doing the camera work gave the video a dash more life tbh. Not to mention Ryan's excitement with this 😅
This is for people who used their ps3 like a pc at the time. It did have a web browser afterall etc. There was also picture editing like apps that aren't available anymore that would use it if I recall.
the PS3 OS is my absolute favourite console OS. It's unmatched functionality and customisability, the only actual gripe I have is it's support for downloads is incredibly poor, especially background downloads that were an afterthought just glommed on.
i actually found it crazy when i found out it took them a couple years to add the ability to do background downloading. I always hated how it would always pause the background download if you did basically anything else on the console
@@DoctorUberit was mostly because they were adding things little by little at the time. I remember when trophy support came around I started playing farcry2 and cod waw that year.
@@DoctorUber The console had only 256mb of system memory ram, even the xmb struggled to run, while a game was running, and infact it was added later with the trophies. Voice chat also never arrived because the console had no ram left available to do anything.
The most shocking part here is that the print cartridges were still good. Jokes aside though, stuff like this is one of the reasons I love this channel
PS3 is a console to this day is still very enjoyable to play on, the interface and everything was so good. Wish they could let the PS5 go back to the simple menus like this
I just got a 60 gig backwards compatible fully rebuilt inside, custom firmware loaded with games. It is truly the Cadillac of video game consoles it really does everything! Playing anything on a BCPS 30g Just Hits different than playing on a slim. You feel like you're playing a luxurious piece of tech.
I remember seeing a prototype PS3 back in the early to mid 2000's on a trip to Japan. The original plan, even up to that late date, was to have an home automation center in a black Sony box, that could do just about anything. The PS3 was going to be your media center that you used for movies, music, pictures, and other features, such as a cable box. In the end, it was probably too advanced for it's time, and fell into the hatred that still scared it to this day. Still, a neat feature, if even then it was nearly useless.
Yeah I left a reply that back in school when I didnt have a PC, I used my PS3 for everything, not just games. I used the web browser to do research and watch RU-vid videos, I used it to download pictures and music, used online word processors to write papers and format them for printing, then I used the printer to turn them in. When I wanted to watch a movie I would rent a DVD or Blu-Ray and just watch it on my PS3. For $600 bucks back then, it gave you a lot. Truly ahead of it's time.
Wasn't too advanced but simply cost way too much for it's real target audience. Also took too long to implement features already featured on the Xbox. IMO PS3 is the reason we even have a Xbox one/series x. PS2 sold so insanely well that if PS3 was just a gaming console with killer exclusives at launch the 360 would've flopped harder than the dreamcast. But people wanted next Gen and didn't want to wait a year to get it, so then Xbox was officially implemented in the console race.
I had tried every feature that console had and i had the rare fully backwards 60gb fat, i even ran the multi audio out and would run hdmi audio, digital out, analog, and anything else it could output and just run an absurd amount of speakers. 😂 Your collection is beautiful btw!
I'm so glad someone finally got this feature to work 😂 Massive PS3 fan and collector and this setting had always puzzled me. I'm half tempted to get the same printer to just have this functionality 🤔
It seems like it defaulted to the wrong paper size, the standard size in the US is 8.5” x 11” so that’s why some of the prints were cut off. I’d like to see a follow up to this where you take some screenshots in one of the few PS3 games that supported it, then print those out on high quality photo paper.
It didn't default to the wrong paper size at all. Its set to the NORMAL paper size the whole world uses and its Americans that default to the WRONG (I'm making a joke here )measuring system coz they have to be different than the rest of the world lol
@@SoloGamingZA It didn't default to the worldwide standard (A4), it looked like it defaulted to some other non-standard format. Called (L) for some reason, so not even US standard.
I must've skimmed past the "printer setting" option thousands of times back in the day and never paid it any notice, wild just how much the PS3 could do haha!
As the first PS3 were promoted not only as gaming consoles, but also as home computers (Linux) i guess the printer connectivity is a survival of the 3.21 massacre.
Yeah, Printer was always available from the main XMB so it wasn't locked to Linux/OtherOS in the first place. Not much hacking you can do with printing abilities so no real reason to remove it.
I remember this feature and dabbled with it a few times printing off photos i made in GT5 which i saved to the OS. I also remember GT4 on PS2 had built-in printer functions too but i think it may have been limited to specific printers as i only remember Epsom printers being advertised for it.
Funny story: I once did an activation at an event and forgot to pre-print a very important form. No printers close, no Kinko's, nothing. Then I remembered "wait, the PS3 can print stuff". Bought a cheap EPSON printer across the street and ta-daaaa!!! :D
This is beautiful, thank you I always wondered if anybody ever used that feature, I was too busy trying to hook my ps3 up to the internet using, back then, 3G modems on portable routers 😅 It’s so cool that it works, the feature works as advertised 😂. Although I don’t think there ever was a commercial about that 😂😂😂 Ryan you’re a genius 👌🏾
oh man that brings back so many memories of me fiddling around with those usb umts modems and sharing internet connection via lan until i was able to convince my mom to get a proper router
Sony wanted to make the ps3 more than just a console because the Blu-ray player at the time was it's big selling point just like the ps2 was for being a DVD player but since the PS3 was much more expensive they added all kinds of things to make it more like a multimedia thing. The original Xbox already allowed players to play custom music during gameplay in certain games like project Gotham racing. So i think this was mostly a competition sorta thing.
Being able to play custom music was a GODSEND for Sonic Unleashed. I would play extended 30 minute music for the werehog level I was in to keep from hearing the awful repetitive battle theme.
I used my PS3 as a media server where HD movies would play from my PC to the PS3 which would output the video on our new, at the time, 1080p 53” HDTV using a wired Ethernet connection. This was the height of the multimedia era in 2006-2012.
Clicked on the video because i thought. ‘Oh he’s bought a ps3 running an old firmware that means he can use Linux’ I ran that for years. But no he’s doing something I never even knew was a thing!
back in high school when I didnt have a personal computer, I used my PS3's web browser and printer function very often. Most people didn't even know a PS3 could be used like a PC. it came in handy.
I love the idea that someone at Sony was still uncertain about the internet taking off (in 2006) and decided to add this feature just in case magazines & physical letters would still be the norm.
As soon as he started giving those hints, I was like, "Is it the printer?" and then when he brought out I yelled, "It's the printer! It's the printer!"
Still have my OG fat 60gb launch day PS3 that i camped out overnight for back in 2006. Still runs perfectly! Love watching my son experience all my older consoles
I had to do this back in the day! My colleges network got hacked by a virus, and this was the only way I could print off an application that I had to turn in physically lol
Who needs a pc or a phone when you can print 🖨 from your PS3 on a real old specific printer which cost too much. That Oh Daddy sounded so wrong but at least Ryan was happy that his experiment worked & we got to hear Tyrell again. They sound like best buds, glad you guys had fun with this, sorry poor lil Melissa had her head chopped & cropped.
Well, Epson printer that has been bought in 2021 is recognizable by PS3 over Wi-fi and it is a new model, so I think some new printers are recognizable by PS3. Crazy stuff
You choose the right paper size? If you are in the US: That lookes like "Letter" sized paper, but i think an odd setting was chosen. Might want a border on there too. Might be able to get better results if you want.
