Hold On, Is the PS3 a Retro Console? | Push Square

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The passage of time. Weird one, init? Never mind the fact I just turned 30 this month and – dodgy knees aside – still feel about 21, there’s something else that’s got me all messed up this week.

While plumbing the depths of the Twitterverse the other night, I stumbled across something that I didn’t particularly want to see. No, not another Hasbulla meme, but one of those little factoids that blows your mind in a sort of mundane way, like realising your tongue is the only part of your reflection you can lick.

And that factoid went thusly – the PS3 is now as old as the SNES was when the PS3 launched.

Yep, dat triple is creeping up on its 17th birthday this year, which means not only is it as old as the SNES was in 2006, but it’ll no doubt be chancing its way into Wetherspoons with a fake ID and ordering three Strikabombs any moment now. More importantly for us though, it raises the question – should we now consider the PS3 to be retro?

There were strong opinions on both sides, but given that it’s Twitter we’re talking about here, they were expressed via the medium of anonymous accounts telling each other to “seethe and cope” while attempting to ratio one another using Bugs Bunny memes.

This low-brow tomfoolery only left me hungry for a proper discussion with an intensely enlightened, amicable, and stunningly handsome group of folk – a group like the Push Square community, of course! Ha ha. Please love me.

So, what do I think? Well, maybe it’s the fact that I was but a wee, spotty teenager at the time, but back in ‘06, the Super Nintendo felt like ancient history – a product from a bygone era, with its bleeps and bloops, and simplistic, grey controller.

At the same age, the PS3 – while certainly knocking on a bit – doesn’t