The PS3 has a GPU with 256MB of GRAM. My dad's old computer I played 10 years ago with a white, discolored case and a tube monitor has a GPU with 512MB of GRAM.

Anyone can spend $35 on a secondhand 6770 and plop it into their mother's dual-core computer and get better performance than a PS3 will have. But while people play on a PS3, square can't just treat it like a low-end PC, because there's a large group of users playing at those exact specifications on that system, they have to optimize for it.

It's fair to say you like playing with a controller or a console, but a PC can use a controller, and there's a better option for console. Treating your 8 year old console as still modern and trying to say it doesn't need an upgrade is like saying your flip phone from 2006 can do everything your smartphone from 2014 can do. Technology evolves, it gets expensive, but we can't keep acting like forcing games to run on less than 1GB of RAM to save a small amount on hardware is ideal.