You've asked for it! And 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? - Wait, that's a DualShock 3. - Wait, hang on a second. - Wait. (chuckles) Hold up. Hold on. Wait.

So if I remember correctly because not all the 80 gigs have backwards compatibility 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)

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. Japanese market PS3, they take care of their consoles especially the ones that you buy online.

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? - 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) - 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.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- You've asked for it!And asked for it!And asked for it!We are finally buildingthe ultimate PS3 today.And that's not entirelyjust because the storeis shutting down and we won'tbe able to do this videoafter the shutdown and it's sad.So, you might notice,this PS3 that we're starting withlooks a little different, right?A little, a different color,a little bit of adifferent language on it.This is a Japanese 80 gig PS3.Now, generally speakingthe very best PS3 you can buyis the original 60 gig model,the fat one, which had thatfull backwards compatibility.You're talking PS1 games,PS2 games in hardware.This actually has all those same featuresexcept that it does softwarebackwards compatibilityfor the PS2 games.Most importantly, I thinkit looks a lot cooler.Is that a real DualShock?- Wait, that's a DualShock?- Wait, yeah, it's a DualShock 3.Wait, hang on a second.- Wait. (chuckles)Hold up. Hold on. Wait.So if I remember correctly'cause not all the 80 gigshave 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 onebut if it comes with the--- Are you sayingthat we're 17 secondsinto building ultimate PS3and this is not the ultimate PS3 already?(gentle music)- I do want to however,make it up to you.- Okay.- I have my collectionof PS3 and PS2 games.- Okay.- PS2 games won't workbut 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 putyour credit card in here?- I have no idea.(both laughing)- Can you imaginea worst start to this video?That is minty.Oh my goodness.Wow. Look at that.- Japanese marketPS3, they take careof their consoles, especiallythe ones that you buy online.- You know what?Even though this might be the,not be the PS3 that we were looking forand 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, whitePS3, the next step is simple.Let's upgrade it, shall we?To make our PS3 just alittle bit more ultimate,we have more terrible cooling fan.Why do we keep doing this to ourselves?Every building the ultimatehas to have some useless fan.This is gonna look likethere's like somethingstuck 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 PS3we might have a near 80 gig hard drive,the thing is you can actually easilyupgrade the PS3 hard drive.I've actually never done this before,but that's actually oneof the things that Iwill give Sony props for,they've always made it easy to upgradepretty much every PlayStationthat has had a hard drive,you could swap it out.So, there is a limit, right?You can't just putanything inside the PS3.But I believe it only supports,it's either 500 gigs orit might do one terabyte,I guess we'll find out.But for now we have a 480 gig SSDwhich I think should bea massive improvementover 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 usto build the ultimate PS3.I mean, we've done the ultimatePS4, 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 ableto drop it right into place,and clicks.And then we use our final screw.And there we go.We've got 480 gigs of flashstorage inside our PS3.Let's see if this thingactually boots up now though,'cause that actuallymight 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 forlike a PS4 and Xbox One.I actually don't knowwhat this will do for the PS3'cause you can't install gameson the external hard drivebut you can like copy a game over to it.You just can't run it from theexternal hard drive, right?- I think there's some game datathat you can transfer.But the cool thing about the PS3was that it was a reallygood media machine.So you could play lotsof videos and music.- Oh, yeah.I wonder though.There's no way the PS3 is gonna accepta 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 hadone of these, right?- I did.I used it as a computermonitor in college.- This seems like anexcessive amount of packingbut hopefully it arrived.Wow. Look at this.Look how well packed this is.This is great.I mean, I can kick thisaround the room right now.(paper tearing)- 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 whichis incredibly difficultto find in 2021because the PlayStation 3D TVwas notorious for failures,probably because they reallypushed this technologybeyond what it was comfortable with.You really couldn'tfind 240 hertz displaysback in, you know, 2010, 2011.And therefore the vast majorityof these PS TVs are dead nowat 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 combinationof all this actually works.(gentle music)I like that noise a lot.Hey, it even defaults to English?What the hell?The system softwarecannot be run correctly.Obviously there's nothing on this SSDthat's ever been formattedor anything like that.Okay. We'll be right back after we installan actual operating system on our PS3.And so my friends, theultimate PS3 is alive.I like all, we jumpinto the store and like,"Hey, why don't you gobuy 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 modelthe X in the O have been flipped.So I hit O to enter instead of Xwhich is a bit of a mindI'm not gonna lie.Give me Black Ops III for PS3?They still made all theway in Black Ops III?Damn man.- I love how CoD4 is still 20 bucks.- CS:Go?There was CS:Go for PS3?What the,what? I wanna play that.It doesn't even workonline anymore, does it?Whatever, I'm absolutely doing that.15 bucks.Sold.We're saving these gamesfrom the sands of time.Okay?- It was a good time togive 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 forthe last couple of months,an excellent PlayStation-basedcontent channelcalled--(both laughing)Jimmy is going to be giving away a PS5to a random person whosubscribes to the channel.So what are you waiting for?Go check out PSReady!If you excuse me I'm gonnacontinue 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 gota few games downloaded,looks, let's just see whatall 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)- Wow!- PlayStation Move!Oh, you're not gonna make me play CS:Gowith PlayStation Move, are you?(laughing)So if you're not familiar,PlayStation Move was verymuch the Sony equivalentto something like the Wii remote, right?It was a way to get somemotion controls into the PS3which certainly was notdesigned 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 webcamthat would help to track the lighted doton the end of the Move controller.Oh, look at that.Okay. So our PS Eye is now workingin a flawless capacity.That actually this cameralooks 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 themost competitive I've ever beenwith a PlayStation Move controller.If only I had a better controllerthat 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 DualSensein and it, that just works.What?(object clunks)What is this?Oh, these are the glassesfor the TV, aren't they?This is not any ordinary TV.You need the very stylishPlayStation 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 saythat the DualSense isworking in this as well?Yo, that 3D is legit.Definitely a little bit ofghosting I see on the display.Although part of that is just a reflectionof the room around me,but there's certainlya major difference from in the glasseswhat I'm seeing,with like my hand and the gunand everything else, right?There's definitely acouple of layers here.This feels pretty ultimate to me.There's clearly nothingthat'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 outfor if it's to be featured on YouTube.Thanks, Nick.Who is Nick?What is that?I mean it's well-packedbut 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 isSony's first consumer OLED.- This is an OLED?Wasn't it like $5,000?It's just something absolutely ridiculousfor an OLED that's this small?Am I trippin?How much did we pay Nickfor the LG OLED electronic 5000?- 900 bucks.- $900 for this little display?The OLED itself is very thin, right?So the actual, the panelis really small herebut all the guts are in the base, right?Including a speakerand 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 thePSTV for this tiny OLED?All right.All right.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 goodand has cool 3D features.Let's experience the OLED future,that is still expensive in 2021.All right.Nick gave us the remote for itwhich is also a very thin cool remote.OLED digital TV.I mean, I gotta say thisremote looks exactlylike what I thought thefuture should be in 2007.I will definitely say that.Power.All right.We're looking at static, butthat 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 2021that's still really impressive,because realistically,OLED is still as good as it gets.I mean sure,OLED's gotten bigger and higher resolutionand all this kind of stuff.The contrast of this display,even though it's only 540por whatever, still it'sincredibly impressive today.Woo. (laughing)Yo.Yo.Okay. So what you're seeingon camera right now,the screen flickering.I do not see that with my own eyes.So that's just purely theway that the cameras werelike sort of clashingwith the refresh rate.In person, this looks every bit as goodas like a modern laptopwith an OLED display, right?I gotta jump into this.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 seethat in the camera right now.I like the fact thatsomeone's spent $1,500 on thislike back in 2007 and yet it's still worthlike a thousand dollars today, right?It really goes to showhow ahead of its timeit really was.I mean, this is absolutelymore of a novelty, right?But what is building the ultimate PS3if it not a bunch of noveltywith old PlayStationsand hard drives and controllers and like,man, this is me in my happy place.If you can't tell, thisis me in my happy place.