DF Retro: PlayStation 3 - The 1080p Dream Part 1 - 2006-2007 - Full HD Gaming Tested On The Triple!

Hey John! Lead producer for “Lair” at Factor 5 here. Thanks for the shout-outs! The composer for the score was John Debney, by the way. He did the score for “Elf” and was nominated for an Oscar for “The Passion of the Christ”. I still fire up the Lair soundtrack from time to time. Love DF Retro so much!

I'll never forget this lmao... Back in 07 or 08 I went to a coworkers house for the first time to play some Xbox and chill. He was was always talking about his nice TV back then. When I got there, his TV was indeed very good, but there was a huge issue with his Xbox. He was running it in 480p!! Image all stretched out and blurry. So I asked "How come your not running this in HD?" "What do u mean," he said "This is HD, it's an Xbox 360 with an HDTV..." "Dude no..." I said kinda stunned. "That's 480p" I walked over and looked how he had it connected. I remember assuming he had an older model or something, or he didn't flick that HD switch on the component cable... Nope. Dude was using straight up composite cables lmao! 😂🤣 I asked if had an HDMI cable, his Xbox did support it. Which was even more hilarious lol. He did. He would hook up his laptop to the TV with HDMI to watch all his burned movies. Now the reason I'll never forget this is the LOOK ON HIS FACE when we booted up a game 😂. I think it was Gears 2. He just looked at me and said "I have to replay every single game". I damn near died lol 😂🤣

I worked at Best Buy at the time and one of the selling points they wanted us to use was that at $600 the PS3 was half the price of every other Blu Ray player on the market.

The way John scored these games reminded me of the Xbox One launch, seeing those weird 912p, 765p, etc.

Any chance for per game chapters? Here's a warm-up :) 00:00:00 Introduction 2006 LAUNCH TITLES 00:06:16 RIIIIIIIIDGE RACER 7 00:08:11 NBA07 Full HD 1080p 00:10:56 Issues with PS3's resolution scaling 00:11:46 Blast Factor 00:13:15 CA$H GUNS CHAO$ 00:14:46 Commercial break 00:15:16 Marvel's Ultimate Alliance 2006 POST LAUNCH TITLES 00:18:49 Gran Turismo HD 00:20:48 Tekken Dark Resurrection Online 00:22:58 Full Auto 2: Battlelines 2007 TITLES 00:27:25 NBA Street: Homecourt\ 00:30:49 NBA08 00:31:37 flOw 00:33:34 Virtual Tennis 3 00:35:20 Super Rub 'a' Dub 00:36:57 Calling All Cars (Extra points for Neverhood music playing in the background) 00:38:41 Super Stardust HD 00:41:00 LAIR (check out "Lair: What went wrong" deep dive on Polygon) 00:46:07 PixelJunk Racers/LocoRoco Cocoreccho! 00:48:32 Everyday Shooter 00:49:41 Cars Mater-National Championship 00:52:34 PixelJunk Monsters 00:53:04 Gran Turismo 5 Prologue 00:55:24 Snakeball

The shots with the gameplay footage reflecting off of the ps3’s glossy finish are pure art

Thanks John! That was a trip down memory lane. I never got to own a ps3, but my best friend got one bundled with a Sony 50 or 60” rear projection T.V. So we spent a lot of time at his house drinking, playing games, and watching Blu-Rays. Those were the days.

I bought a PS3 and a Samsung LE40M86 full 1080p HDTV. On the same day, close to the PAL launch and my 21st birthday. Was a wallet buster. Being a sad techie that was obviously a very memorable day in my life. Ripped through Ridge Racer in native 1080p over HDMI and it was unbelievably crisp and fluid. Alas little else really lived up to that promise. Wipeout HD a while later was a real treat, a few indie titles blew my eyes out. In the end though it was the generation of sub 720p and often sub 30FPS titles. The TV went to LCD heaven just after PS4 arrived, perfect time to replace it. The PS3? I still have an original working CECHC03 60GB model, although I fitted a dirt cheap 120GB SSD to it a few years back. It boots and runs really quickly, and many of those painful loading times are much improved. GT6 and MGS4 for example.

you know time flies when the ps3 is considered retro gaming

Heya John! A minor correction, the PS3 version of VT3 was done solely at SEGA AM3, Sumo was involved with all versions that had networking (i.e. all the other versions). I worked on them all (VT3 was my introduction to the industry 🙂)

Love how John never fails to plug some Chad Warden in his ps3 videos lol

Interesting video! A similar topic I'd like to see you cover is games that ran at 720p on the original Xbox. There were a surprisingly high number of them IIRC. Some of them had major performance issues though. Would be interesting to see which HD games on original Xbox hold up best!

I can't take John saying "ABAP. As Ballin' As Possible" with his usual straight tone and face, I'm laughing like a hyena right now, thank you

God I wish I wouldn't have sold my OG 60 Gb Ps3. I loved how it played PS1, PS2 and PS3 games. Sold it for like $90 to a friend for no real reason.

"One of the most infamous press conferences in gaming history" I expected that a giant enemy crab would appear

I like that you took some time to explore 720p and 480p modes! :D

Starting to believe that John is best YouTube "gaming" content creator. His ability to explain the how and why makes it easy to navigate which games are worth your time.

Seeing the game box lair made me so happy. I've had the lair profile picture since the PlayStation 3 and have never changed it and never will. I was one of the few who really loved that game.

Thank you, John, for continuing to keep the Chad Warden legacy alive.

I had no idea you could change the resolution in the settings and it would effect the frame rate in game. I’ve been a PS3 owner since 2007 and never knew that. Great video!! Can’t wait for part 2