So I figured I may as well kick off a thread about this video by writing some trivia. Actually, a good friend of mine used to write trivia in his YouTube descriptions under the header Metadata, which I thought was kind of cool. Since we're all tech nerds here, I think I'm going to steal his idea.
Here's some metadata:
- Like a lot of my hardware projects, I've actually had these PS3s for quite some time. Like a lot of hardware projects of mine, they sat around while other projects took priority. I checked my message history and apparently I bought them in August 2021, well over a year ago. But ironically, as you can see from the dates of some of the PS3 footage, much of the work I did in this video was from August 2022, coincidentally on the anniversary of picking them up.
- Still, this was far from the longest time between buying and repairing. I think the longest time was the Gamecube I bought in November 2019, but didn't make a video about until November 2021. Wait, how the hell did I accidentally repair something on the anniversary I received it twice??
- What piqued my interest in getting these, apart from the seemingly good deal, was the fact that I'd never actually owned an original phat PS3 before - I'd only ever owned a slim that my dad purchased new back in 2011. It always felt like a bit of a shame, because I think the phat actually looks way better. I think Chad Warden said it best: that nice, nice slick black, that [odd whistle sound], that shit is nice.
- Also that slim PS3 was one of the few consoles in my collection that I didn't take with me when I moved countries. Firstly, because it was really my dad's more than mine, and secondly, because it was locked to 240V, so I wouldn't have even been able to use it without a step-up transformer or power supply transplant.
- Ironically the main reason I fixed these PS3s now rather than later was actually so I could do something almost completely unrelated. I have a spare slim PS3 that I was planning on selling because I don't need it, but I figured I should bundle a controller with it too to make the sale more worthwhile. The only snag: I didn't actually have any spare working PS3 controllers. When I played PS3, I was just using the PS4 controller as I show in this video.
I had bought a bulk lot of "untested" controllers to pair with these PS3s shortly after buying them, which had similarly been sitting around for about a year. I could use one of those, but I'd have to go through and repair/restore them, which I was planning to do on video. And since the video of doing that wouldn't really make sense unless you had the context of me having these PS3s, I figured I had to get this out of the way first.
...Yes, that's really how your thought process works when you're a tech YouTuber. I wonder how much longer they would have sat around had I not wanted to sell that other PS3 right now lol - There's a lot of time compression in this video. As I alluded to earlier, this video spans almost 4 whole months (while also working on other projects at the same time). This is why it can be really hard keeping a consistent schedule with videos like mine, a project might take 2 days or it might take 6 months, and often there's no way of knowing until you're already hip-deep into it.