All the stuff I mentioned might be possible with other hardware, but the thing that really sold me (on keeping the PS3) was the fact that you can do all of this just natively and simply with the PS3 OEM controller. There's probably a bunch more stuff that's useful but like I said I haven't kept up with everything. Also, if for whatever reason your blu-ray drive craps out, you can still play games. You can extend the life of your blu-ray drive since you can load games from the hard drive instead of the disc. Lots of plugins/features to customize your PS3, like an FTP server and someone mentioned, Fan speed control Able to run Movian, which is a light media player capable of playing h264/mkv/etc files with auto-download of covers and subtitles Pretty slick with the PS3 OEM controller. I was just playing og DOOM and Quake the other day via retroarch. Decent emulation box via Retroarch provided you don't require N64/Dreamcast and greater. Able to use modded Netflix, youtube, hulu, etc without the use of PSN/online check Able to play PS3, PS2 (emulation), PS1 games, as well as blu-rays/DVDs That's it.Īnyways, I'll give the reasons/pros I have kept mine: PUP update file onto a flash drive and update via usb using the PS3 update process. However, if your model IS COMPATIBLE, it is sooooooo easy to do nowadays. I haven't really kept up with the firmwares and models that are possible to have cfw installed on them so make sure your model can actually support this. I have sold all of them except one, which I still have and use frequently. I have had several cfw PS3 throughout the years, all beginning with a tethered mod involving an iPod Nano.

Mods for ps3 games