Why I'm Buying PS3 Games In 2022... 

To be honest, I kind of miss the PS3 and 360 era

I picked up a PS3 today. Got a pretty good price on a bundle and now I'm hunting specific games for my collection. I think the PS3 is super fun and compared to many other "retro" systems, fairly cheap to collect for. I think you are right, there is no time to waste if you want to collect for PS3....do it now! Great video!

Matty you were actually my inspiration for getting a 360 and PS3 this year. I'm getting discs and only getting the main franchises that aren't on PS4. God of War, Ratchet, Metal Gear, Infamous, Killzone, Resistance. Think that's it.

Been building up my old PS3 library recently, with Sony lacking any love for their past makes sense. Subscriptions to play up to 10 year old games is also mad stupid and a long term scam personally.

Started actively collecting for the 360 and PS3 generation a few years back (one of my favorite generations in gaming) and I'm at over 400 Xbox 360 games and 200 PS3 games. I've gotten to the point where I have most of the games that I'm looking for. And so glad I did while the prices were still low. Now is the best time to buy them!

I started collecting physical ps3 games last march. I had 24 games...now im over 500 games! Love collecting for this console

This is why I keep all my games, and systems

Now is the perfect time to collect PS3 titles. Once Sony finally shuts down the PS3 stores, the prices with skyrocket into crazy territory. I'm not paying Sony a subscription fee to rent games from them. Those days are long over for me and I like to own my experiences, not rent them. With streaming services, you're at the mercy of others who can pull your access to their content at anytime. Awesome video my friend.

I love how ps3 is becoming retro such a good system with so many great games and the fact that the discs are blu ray is also a nice plus. Great video Matty!

I bought my PS3 in 2017 and I have around 300 games, nearly all of them from thrift stores. I am playing often, especially racing and open world games. I bought also many accessories. It's a fabulous game machine at really low price.

I didn't have a ps3 till 2019 and now I have over 50 games collecting is fun.

PS3 is the one system I collect physical for and might be my personal favorite system (though I am loving the Switch due to its portability). Just picked up Twisted Metal, Starhawk and the first Dishonored which you mentioned as a personal favorite and I’ve never played it. Looking forward to it. Also got the Ico/Shadow of the Colossus collection (even though I own them digitally) and bought the 2008 Prince of Persia which I feel people often shit on, but I really liked. Certainly not the best in the series, and would’ve liked a different voice actor for our main protagonist on that one, but really fun to breeze through. Loving the Retro videos, especially anything highlighting PS3 collecting! Keep it up Matty and all the best👍

Matty! Your videos lately have been bangers! Hitting the nostalgia in me so much I dug out my ps2 and ps3. Ghost Recon future soldier is criminally underrated. The sync shot was so badass and the team banter made me feel apart of the game.

I remember during the summer of 2020. I bought no more heroes 2 on the Wii for around $100. Then, that fall, the games were put on the switch. The Wii copy that I bought then plummeted in price, which killed me man😂

I love my ps3, mainly because I was "Too busy for games" at that time. I missed out on like 2/3 of that gen, but in 2011 I got a ps3 slim 120gb and mw3/skyrim for $150.

The beauty of the PS3 is that those games hold up so well being in HD on Bluray. I refuse to pay for any video game streaming service and I require ownership of my games. All it takes is for one day the provider to say they are pulling the plug and boom no more access. Hell with that! Owning it outright is the ONLY way to go imho! I have added almost 50 days in 2 weeks and I really hope that you make some more PS3 pickup videos! I'll take all the advice I can get on the "what to get ASAP" front!

I really miss those thick manuals. I’m probably one of the few who reads those before starting a game. The best manuals were the ones that came with GTA games. Those manuals acts either as an newspaper or travel brochure, which adds a little more lore to the GTA world.

Matty I don't even collect retro media but it's just a pleasure to hear you talk about this shit. Your retro section has become my comfort viewing, really is an excellent addition to the channel. Would really love to see you do a video on "Escape from Butcher Bay". One of the greatest xbox exclusives of all time and you just never see anyone talk about it

so happy I found this channel - always the hit of nostalgia I needed. keep up thr great work matty!

Absolutely love this channel! Started getting into retro collecting about a 6 months ago and even though it's an expensive hobby, it'll be worth it to have physical copies.

I recently bought a ps3 and jailbroke it and i have been loving it !

New viewer! Awesome video. A few fears ago I hunted down all the HD trilogies for super cheap and I’m really glad that I did

I started collection for that system 5 years ago.. some games were around 1 euro till 4 euro at a sale at that time... i have over 300 pysical discs now at the moment. Love that system.

I'm so glad RU-vid recommended me one of your videos. There's a warmth to your stuff and a nostalgia I've not found anywhere else and I'm glad to be here

I'm doing the same....have been collecting PS3 games for the last year and currently have over 275 (no garbage sports titles).

I’ve been trying to get my hands on shattered dimensions and web of shadows but I can’t find copies that aren’t $60+ !! It just baffles how expensive these old games are when other ps3 games are dirt cheap

Started doing the exact same thing ! Great video !

I love this more personable side to your personality and since I enjoy my physical games too I never miss an episode.😊

Metal Gear Solid Collection the ps3 is the only way to play all the metal gear games natively on the console with out streaming it from the cloud

This is exactly why I’ve spent the last month building a PS3NETSRV library on my server. I’m up to 2.5TB of titles

I strongly recommend to try and find motorstorm games, one of the best exclusive franchises for ps3 (except for M:artic Edge). Its such a shame that Evolution studios was closed after the failure success of apocalypse, so much potential "lost".

Love this video. Your take on collecting is right up my street.

Glad to find a fellow PS3 collector. I just picked up Skate 1,2 and 3, Shaun White Snowboarding and Shaun White skateboarding for like £30 total on eBay. Also re-bought some classic JRPG goodness with Enchanted Arms (guilty pleasure I originally had on 360) Trinity Universe, Eternal Sonata (another I had on 360), Mugwn Souls and Mugen Souls Z (which I own digitally but now am futureproif with the physicals)

Good finds! PS3 what brought me back to gaming in my mid 30’s. I was late getting one in 2012. So I have all of these games and love them. Ended up with a lot more. Because so many were only 20 new by then. Love my PS3 and collection. Was lucky enough to get two brand new PS3’s two different times when Walmart just wanted to get rid of them. Had great software. A lot of games came out at the end with the full collections on one disc. Borderlands. Which I sickly own on everything. This was great video. Really glad got back into gaming when I did. It’s crazy how lock down effected the market.

I’m going back and picking up all the ratchet and clank games I’m missing. One of my favorite series as a kid.

I started collecting just before the whole covid thing and was waiting for my local stores to reopen when restrictions lifted and went crazy and bought close to 150 games in matter of months as they were super cheap

Good looks! Just picked up Drahengard 3!🤙

Thanks for the heads up on drakengard 3!! Just ordered a brand new copy for myself as well

God of war sagas collection was a better sale than origins collection

matty you are my favorite youtuber and I had no idea you had another channel! I am a collector and retrogamer, sorry for my rusty English

I'm always looking for new games for my ps3 collection. You got really cool pick ups. From the ones you got I have just the Batman ones and GoW. Nice video sir.

I wish I could buy the KillZone and Resistance games on my PS4. Sony does a terrible job considering backwards compatibility.

Funny I stumble upon this channel and man those are good buys. Started building my PS3 collection a few years back and pretty much have all the games I want to get. Still trying to find a few more but glad I got the ones when they're cheap

Matt, already ahead of you! I have the pre-owned games, all in immaculate condition.

They are so affordable right now. I've been doing the same thing with PSP as well

I have Homefront on PS3, It's great and criminally underrated. Ironically started playing it last week. Love your channel, which I just discovered. Love your clear upfront fun style. I bought Arkham City too.... Subbed 😁

Great vid dude 👌

A lot of those games are also still available on PC and Xbox backwards compatibility (mainly the Ubisoft games and the Batman trilogy). If I was making a collection of "get them before they get expensive" I'd definitely recommend grabbing the niche titles locked to the PS3 platform (if you already own that console of course, some might be on Xbox, but I don't have an Xbox), like Asura's Wrath, Heavenly Sword, White Knight Chronicles, original release of Nier, Binary Domain, Enslaved, Lollipop Chainsaw, SIREN Blood Curse, Shadows of the Damned and Dante's Inferno.

Ps3 was and still is one of my fav consoles i ever owned. The amount of memories throughout the years truly made my childhood amazing! unfourtunately, i don't have it in my household anymore. But if i did, i would truly purchase more games. Since i've missed several of them. I'm truly dissapointed in Sony on not allowing backwards compatibility for the PS5. Which is one of the reasons as to why i didn't purchase it.

Today i picked up my first ps3 now time to collect all my personal pick’s games super excited because it’s backward compatible!!!

Matty please do a collection video, it would not be showoff or anything we just wanna see your games

I worked for target Canada back in 2012 before it closed down and a lot of the ps3 remaster collections (now, splinter cell, infamous, mgs) all came out around that time, and nobody bought them... so I got a lot of these for like $10... then sold them years later, then in 2020 bought a ps3 again and have been rebuying ps3 games since lol

nice one, some good reminders there, more PS3 vids please!

Started on PS3 (a console I completely skipped at the time) around October/November 2021 and am really glad I did... I have most of what I want (~70 games) and many were steals at $5-10ea. Just secured the last of the HD trilogy collections (those were a bit more at ~$20ea) but the console itself I got for free in trade. Needed a new HDMI port that I was able to repair myself. Most expensive freebee I've ever received hahaha

perfect timing, my dad found a ps3 recently, and we're planning to give it to our relatives, just applied some new thermal paste a couple days ago

I will say unlike other collectors you don't get a game for its rarity. You buy them based on playability. So many "gaming collectors" just buy the worst games and call it gold. Don't change your format

Already anticipated this so I bought all the essential PS3 exclusives not on the 360, I have almost everything I need, now for a back-up PS3 console & I'm set, to Hell with streaming trash.

Ghost recon future soldier was one of my favourites at the time luckily I still own it

These videos are so entertaining

It's absurd how we have the same fucking taste in videogames. I looked through your channel and realized how you cover almost the exact sagas i fondly love.

I’ve just started collecting physical games for many console generations. Last week I found a PS2 fat in a perfect condition with all the original packaging. I already have a PS3 slim but thinking about getting a fat model. Any suggestions?

great set of games, now is a good time to buy before they get too expensive when the stores close! :D

It's wild I spent the past 3 days buying PS3 games and then this video comes up

I’ve seen a couple of ps3 games which included a Blu-ray dvd ghostbusters and resistance 3 is there any others you know of that came with a dvd?

The problem with Drakengard 3 is that is has a huge DLC pack - I'm from the UK and did originally import the phsyical Edition but when we has the PS Store Crisis last year I decided to get the UK digital version and all the DLC off the store to secure it. If you like PS3 HD Remasters I recommend the Jak & Daxter Trilogy + Ico/Shadow of the Colossus - It's great to play the original PS2 version upscaled.

I picked up monkey island 1+2 hd on disc they were taken off the PS store but are in PSNow which is funny. I grew up with these games and am so happy to have them in hd or switch on the fly to the original beautiful pixel art and portraiture!💐

The only reason I am playing my PS3 games since I have a 3D TV an OLED at 55 inches. Stardust in 3D is nuts

Good call. PS3 was my first "new" console after being mainly a PC gamer. Most exclusives imo. I never played it much, but I've been building my collection for a while. We're ending the sweet spot, between when they're still "new-ish" in people's minds and when they starting going into the collector market. Games are ticking up in price. If you find a decent one under $20 consider yourself lucky. Ironically, 360 and Xbox one are still quite affordable and so are some ps4. That's not gonna last.

The first Killzone, you'll need to buy the trilogy. Splinter Cell games to plat, they say are a 7 or 8/10. Did all three, as well as Hitman trilogy.

Check yard sales and local used game stores guys. I’ve found about 50 games in the last 6 months that way. My favorite system by far

Hey Matty love your videos if you are looking for a hidden gem on original Xbox try phantom crash other than KOTOR one of my favourite og Xbox games

Nice song choice for the intro. "Same Ol'" by The Heavy for anyone wondering! :>

I've been trying to get PS3 games because of the easy platinums. The Spider Man games are definitely on my list.

Correction- Drakengard 1 is the one that specifically ties into Nier with Ending E. Drakengard 3 then adds more to it.

Before you criticize Edge of Time in its own video, I feel it’s important to bring up that; after the critically acclaimed success of Web of Shadows, the game devs were given only a single year (basically less) to create a sequel, which ended up being Edge of Time. Although the game itself is pretty small, and has its problems- I recognize that because the devs had so little time to make it, they made the smart choice for lowering the scale of their game, rather than trying to make a bigger, flashier sequel that would have most definitely flopped.

Agree on Splinter Cell. Always wanted to like it because everyone else I knew loved it but I just couldn't get in to it. Excited to see that Prince of Persia video. They really are great games and would love for the franchise to return. Great vid.

I checked my physical and digital collection and I managed to get the Splinter Cell and God Of War Origins collection on sale off PSN years ago. Same with Ratchet, Sly and Jak collections. Won't be deleting them off my PS3 haha

Yep, i went out and bought a ps3. Been wanting to play MGS again and i got sick of waiting for a rerelease. Should have snapped up the digital versions on xbox, god knows when theyll add those back for purchase, if ever tbh. Got a big bag of games for dirt cheap, good times!

I have been buying up PS3 games to rebuild my collection as well. I recently grabbed Red Dead Redemption, Max Payne 3, GTA IV, Dead Space 1 + 2, Uncharted 1 + 2 + 3, The Last of Us, and a few other less known games like Pure. Still looking for more but I feel like the price of PS3 games is going to spike in a year or two when we still dont have native backwards compatibility on Playstation consoles. I don't want to pay those prices if I don't have to. Look at the price of Gamecube games right now...

I've been behind the times for years now but it's been to my benefit. The most "Modern" system I bought was the Wii U right as the Switch came out. For Sony I never went past the PS3. So for the whole PS4/Switch and now PS5/Xbox Planks Constant Infinity plus 1 or whatever it's called era I've just been collecting PS3 and Wii U games (if I want anything current I use Steam but it's only a small handful of games) almost exclusively. I ran out of shelf space and have games on my floor in a corner stacked on top of each other taller than I am. Until like two years ago saying they were dirt cheap was an understatement. I'll put it this way I bought my PS3 when the PS4 came out. I walked into a Gamestop in my town's Mall. Got a 500 gig Super Slim (that still works flawlessly) with two controllers, all 3 Batman games and all 5 God of War games (all the games CIB) for $100. I'll never forget one day at a retro store I bought three games for a total of $15. Those games were: 3D Dot Game Heroes (an Atlus game mind you), Puppeteer and Folklore. The fact that a Square Enix game like Drakengard 3 can be found sealed for $20 is a testament to the quality games you can still get on the cheap that no one cares about currently but will in the very near future due to the streaming/all digital crap. Get the things now! If you don't already have these some suggestions: 1.) Alice Madness Returns as for the moment with the PS3 copy you can download the first game American McGee's Alice for free. 2.) Persona 5. Most people forget it was originally made for the PS3 and they just ported it over to the PS4 so that version maybe worth something in the future as I'm sure it sold less than it's PS4 counter part. 3.) Transformers: Devastation! Activision and Platinum Games bringing the 80s cartoon to life! 4.) Blur! My personal favorite racing game of all time. It's like the Need For Speed games and Mario Kart had a baby.

Ps3 games is by far my biggest library .. With 350 games.. Some i double dip a while back.. Azuras wrath, Lollipop Chainsaw, Stuff like that...

If you’re picking up PS3 games, you gotta go after Afrika. It’s a totally forgotten early PS3 exclusive. Glad to have it in my collection.

The 7th gen (360, PS3 & Wii) is the best gen of gaming, in my opinion. It was the gen that we still had a lot of creative, great games. Being released complete on disc (and download for those that wanted). And games weren't released half assed like 95% of games now. So gamer friendly...We could play solo, co-op, local multiplayer, online. Games played soon as you pop it in. Paywalls were rare. Microtransactions not nearly as much of an issue. Didn't need constant huge updates. Games with manuals. A lot of the games still look pretty good. Glad I still have and play my 360, Wii and PS3. Been adding games to the collection lately.

Some more to add to your PS3 collection, Metal Gear Solid The Legacy Collection, comes with a nice hardback book about the game series, a code for Metal Gear Solid (PS1) a HD remaster of Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 and 3 gives access to the MSX versions of Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake (Kojima Versions). Metal Gear Solid IV Guns of the Patriots and Metal Gear Solid Peacewalker. This is exclusive to PS3 because MGS4 is a Blu Ray game and never released for XBOX-360, soon to be a rare collectible if not already.

Cool Video Matty always enjoy watching these types of videos, but personally I just can't justify collecting ps3 games, RPSC3 is getting better and better and most ps3 games run at inconsistent frame rates of 20-30fps and are stuck at 720p. Drakenguard 3 is a perfect example I played that game in native 4k, locked 60fps on RPCS3, however on the PS3 it has severe performance issues and runs between 15-30fps it's a big reason it received very bad reviews at the time. Most ps2 games, ps1, snes, nes, sega genesis all run at 60fps or locked 30fps and the pixel art tends to have aged very well combine them with something like the retro tink 5x or a CRT and they visually still look great, whilst playing smooth as butter so they're great to collect. I've actually started collecting a few titles for the Xbox 360 because of the backwards compatibility enhancement programme, playing the og red dead redemption @ 4k locked 30 is really nice same with Fable II and other titles. I really wish Sony could get the ps5 to emulate ps3 games at a locked 30fps 1080p at the very least but if they can't I'll just stick to Emulating most of the PS3 library on my PC.

Great video I’ve been doing the same , why PlayStation can’t have ps3 playback in ps5 is beyond belief.

My steelbook version of Killzone 3 and Resistance 3 are sitting pretty on my shelf. Nabbed them for about £5 each back in the day haha

I have been collecting for a while now. I have noticed game prices going up. Funny tho I have noticed some pawn shops still selling 5 for 20 $ cad. I tend to stack 10 or 20 together and offer $30/$60. Usually works as they are getting rid of stock

Will we get a retro rebound of price of persia ive seen no review's of those games but i hear they're good

Where did you buy all these games from ? I’m going back and buying a ton of ps3 games as well.

That dlc code still works for origins, I used mine a couple months ago

as someone who never and much less played a PS3(had a XB360) i think i may get myself a PS3 and couple of games, just to be able to play all those games i missed out on, games like the Infamous games, God of War III and Ascension, Uncharted trilogy, Persona 5, The Last of Us, a good chunk of Japanese games, games that were multiplat, but i never had chance to get around(many of which sucks on PC) and much more.

Dude Homefront was my JAM the promotional content for that game was so sick though my young eyes, sad the sequel wasn't received well.

Sony NEVER said Spartacus would be a direct competitor to Gamepass. I don't know why people keep saying that, Jim Ryan even said in an interview that they don't plan to compete with Gamepass.

To see people just now buying PS3 games makes me feel super old. I've had a PS3 since 2010 but have barely played it since November 15, 2013. Ironically I've barely played my PS5 too. I agree with owning your games - my coworkers think I'm crazy for not getting Spotify over downloading MP3 files/buying CDs and vinyls.

Have you played the Batman games with the 3D glasses?

Great video. I'm getting old and have three kids now I mostly read and watch video games rather than playing them. 😢

I understand your reason for getting Batman on PS3. I own the Borderland games remastered for PS4, but I wanted them for PS3 as well. Same for my Ratchet & Clank Trilogy on PS3. I wanted them on PS2 as well. My mother calls it a waste of money. I call it a necessity 😁

I had original 'Splinter Cell' on PC at launch, and if it's janky now: I don't want to know LoL I have so much nostalgia for this game. It was absolutely genre-breaking when it came out. The stealth rules and - if I remember correctly - the sticky-electric/stun darts were ridiculous. I loved this game. So much planning and so much fun. One of my all-time faves FOR ITS TIME. I will not defend it as a 'GOAT', but for its time, it was incredible.

Just started collecting ps3 a couple weeks ago. I've picked up and played some of the must play games I hadn't before like the last of us and red dead redemption 👍