A Solid State Drive (SSD) brings your PS3 back to life. I've had one for 2 months, waiting until black Friday to upgrade to PS4.

Load times go from over a minute to being equal or better to a PS4 at 5 to 10 seconds. I play next to the boyfriend (OEM Ps4 user) and he resents me for it. xD

So with a little investment PS3 becomes very viable with an extra $80~$120 thrown at it, it just lacks:

1) Nicer Graphics (Limiting Animations is a must at this point, not necessarily disabling though)
2) No Built in Voice convenience
3) No Multitasking
4) No Built in Recording software.

I'm not against dropping the PS3, I'm just saying that its not exactly dead just yet.