Basic: .ogg / .opus support? MIDI player?
Advanced: Godot games, programming target?

This is also the sort of thing I could see having an OLED for longer battery life (+always-on info) not that I could justify the price. I don’t even really need a second portable device (and my headphones situation isn’t good either).

Maybe the sort of device I’m wanting is unlikely to exist, especially with some sort of battery compartment at this size and in this-day-and-age.

I’m in a similar boat, though my current GPU (1050Ti) probably isn’t up to much beyond lighter/2D titles (due to overhead) and those files are a bit heavy/messy to manage.

I actually have 2 PS3s (my YLoD original w/drive donated to other, a slightly newer model that might have dry paste). Would be nice if I had someone to help with this (my OG has stuff on it*), then again I could do some of it myself I just am not bothering to do so. I did play through a few of my old games as-is on the newer PS3.

* including LBP1 water DLC that was discontinued and wasn’t included w/GotYE. Though due to storage constraints and lack of planning it’s very possible there’s media I purchased that I deleted at some point

Would this emulator allow me to play off disks in my Blu-ray drive?

Signs point to no, at least due to DRM (?) many PC blu-ray drives aren’t capable of reading PS3 discs. Technically possible if you buy a specific drive (or maybe altering a drive?), otherwise you probably would need a PS3 with custom firmware to rip your own games.

EDIT, More directly:

In its current state, RPCS3 does not support reading game data directly from PlayStation 3 format discs.

These days you can download 100 gig in hours

Well yes, but for some of us the ‘in hours’ is more than 24-hours worth of hours. Longer in reality, because it’s shared internet.

Various things:

• uncompressed audio (perhaps needlessly, for lower-end CPUs)
• pre-rendered cutscenes, multiple resolutions
• large texture sizes (also think normal maps etc), multiple resolutions
• redundant or unused data
• large model sizes, or more assets in general
• previous issues may be multiplied by multi-language support

I would also say it could be a problem of art direction, having no constraint and ignoring smart techniques that use less data.

Also, a higher-budget --> more preorders?
More data --> more game?