The Real PS3 Grill cooks food, delivers lousy gameplay

There are two schools of thought when it comes to destroying a brand-new, $500 videogame console: some scholars feel that bashing the hell out of it with a sledgehammer in front of dozens of fuming fanboys is the way to go, while other academics would rather rip out the guts and replace them with something much, much less functional. Well we've already seen the SmashMy___ gang pointlessly assassinate an innocent PlayStation 3, so now it's time to check out what cruel and unusual punishment the folks at The Real PS3 Grill have meted out to their own shiny rig. Taking a cue from online Photoshop jobs that imagined Sony's console as a very expensive George Foreman Grill (complete with a fist-pumping Ken Kutaragi), these sadistic modders decided to hollow out their fresh purchase and replace all the high-tech magic with a common tabletop griddle. Their mission statement claims that the project was carried out to garner fame and glory, and for a very brief amount of time, they will indeed be on top of the world. Soon, however, everyone will forget about this amusing distraction in favor of playing their new gaming systems, while all these guys will have are a hopelessly outdated PS2 and a couple of leftover steaks.

[ManekiNeko @ Nov 20th 2006 12:29PM]

Oh, so it's just like the regular Playstation 3, except it cooks steaks.

JR

[Paul @ Nov 20th 2006 12:35PM]

Kinda disappointed, when I saw the picture at first I thought it was another one of those things where they were cooking it off the heatsink...

In any case, I didnt follow the read link, but could they possibly have removed the innards from the case without destroying the PS3? so they can still use their new PS3, it will just be nekked.

[Greg Ferguson @ Nov 20th 2006 12:37PM]

Looks like some good chicken.

[Tyler @ Nov 20th 2006 12:39PM]

apparently they really did dismantle it and put a grill inside a PS3 shell

http://www.therealps3grill.com/ps3insides.htm

now if only they had show how they made it

[Ben Freedman @ Nov 20th 2006 12:43PM]

Here's a funny PS3 spoof song, which also features the PS3 Grill....

http://www.digg.com/tech_news/No_PS3_for_Me_Have_you_heard_this_hilarious_spoof_song

Enjoy!

Best,

Benjamin

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http://www.neo-fight.tv [The TV Show for The 'Not-So-Geeky']

[GameinatrixCori @ Nov 20th 2006 12:50PM]

Hilarious guys!!

I'm a Wii girl myself. But this is hilarious! Thanks for the first laugh I've had all day.

[razorweb @ Nov 20th 2006 1:37PM]

lame. publicizing it just invites future meaningless derivations of this stunt, which I now have to wade through to read real gadget news.

[Matthew @ Nov 20th 2006 1:41PM]

Whats stopping them from transposing the innards into another case and still having a functional PS3? ... i mean thats what id do if i really wanted a PS3 griddle

[Clippy @ Nov 20th 2006 1:45PM]

I'm shocked. You win......idiots.....

[rczamor @ Nov 20th 2006 2:10PM]

What ever happened to the days when kids could run around and frolic in the grass, play outside and not have to be plugged into a wall to have fun.

I don't know about you, but the kid in me would rather spend $500 on penny candy and go play 'American Gladiator' on the monkey bars that get a PS3...but thats just me.

Hell, if the had playgrounds back when i was young like they do today...

www.kaboom.org

[sean @ Nov 20th 2006 5:29PM]

can i get off your lawn now?

[Loban @ Nov 20th 2006 2:19PM]

I'm sure someone already stated the obvious but i'll say it anyway.

- "delivers lousy gameplay" just like the real PS3.

[renmimby @ Apr 2nd 2008 5:34PM]

yawn

[whatevas @ Nov 20th 2006 2:34PM]

lame.

[GJP303 @ Nov 20th 2006 3:28PM]

Is it just me or did the people who purely want to beat up their ps3 or turn it into various things get there hands on it. Or maybe the people who turn it into various things/abuse it get better press coverage than the ones who actually enjoyed it for what it was made for.

[Bill @ Nov 20th 2006 3:43PM]

Now all you need is a George Foreman grill to put the, hopefully, still functional, PS3 guts.

[Brandon @ Nov 20th 2006 3:57PM]

$5k on ebay would have been more fun the a $500 grill any day.

[v_dogg @ Nov 20th 2006 4:24PM]

Dang, where can i pick up one of these bad boys

[Vinn @ Nov 20th 2006 4:44PM]

Haha! That is awesome, I knew it looked suspiciously like a George Foreman grill when I first saw pictures of it a year ago, especially the silver one.

Either that or a refrigerator door.

[philipmein @ Nov 20th 2006 8:26PM]

It had to be done. And it was a fist pumping Ken Kutaragi in the George Foreman grill mock-up.

[Amish_Gramish @ Nov 20th 2006 8:30PM]

LOL, I just hope that PS3 can still cure diseases with Cure@PS3!!!

Sony allowing it's customers to help cure diseases isn't just good marketting, it's great humanity!

[Dustin @ Nov 21st 2006 1:57AM]

This reminds me of the guy who fried eggs with his xbox 360

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/video-cooking-eggs-xbox-360-style

[Kris @ Nov 21st 2006 8:05AM]

That's what you get when you can't wait a couple of years for the games to get better and the price to go down.

[BILLY LAMBERT @ Nov 29th 2006 3:40PM]

well everyone knew there would be problems with ps3, thats why smart people wait until they get the kinks out of it before buying it.so we wouldnt waste our money on something that doesnt work. so for all the ones that bought it when it first came out, all i have to say is ''suckers''!

[jeaniemadrox @ Nov 29th 2006 3:54PM]

LOL! I want a Ps3 Foreman Grill!! Sony should look into producing those.

[shawub4u @ Nov 29th 2006 4:13PM]

Well I have seen I have Xbox 360 cook an egg. there is video i believe of it on You Tube

[me @ Nov 29th 2006 5:43PM]

If you seriously wasted $500 dollars on a PS3 to make a grill, you're dumb. You should have left it for someone who really wanted it.

[co12n @ Nov 29th 2006 6:20PM]

why is everyone talking about what they are doing with the guts of the PS3. The people who did that dont like the PS3 and dont think the gameplay is any good thats why there are a lot of websites that show them destroying the PS3. obviously they aren't going to put the guts of it in another box to keep playing it if they didnt like it enough to take it apart in the first place. Read the first sentence they are talking about destroying it not modifying it to do things other than what it was made for.

[Doug, Real Person @ Nov 29th 2006 8:29PM]

You folks really need to get lives. There is so much more than just your displays and monitors. No wonder they call this generation X, ex-fit, ex-healthy, ex-able and ex-people. Have a good time sitting on your big fat ass playing video games and emailing on another about how great they are and at the same time don't bother to parent your kids or take responsibility for your lives because the government will do that for you. This stuff is an embarassment - watching thousands of you dorks standing in line for DAYS just so you can be the first gamer(and just wtf is that?)to get one. Keep those little Japs at Sony and everywhere else on top of the revenue columns guys, 'cause that's all you're good for. Sure isn't for working in the real world with the rest of us, seen many of you come and go. Mostly go because you just can't seem to understand that the real world ain't a video game and there is no "reset" and "oh well" just don't get it here. Don't bother to get a real job, the rest of us actual PEOPLE out here will take care of the heavy lifting for you. Don't forget to hit the drive thru on your break..............

[Leanne @ Nov 29th 2006 10:01PM]

That was funny - considering now that Sony has lost so much money and have sold out on PS3s. I *almost* feel sorry for those who sold back their PS2s since the PS3 plays those games in black and white, if at all. XD

I'll be getting a Wii, personally - just not at FYE ($400 for a $250 system? I think not)

[christian @ Nov 29th 2006 11:40PM]

haha, that is pretty funny and hardcore fanboys will be crushed, but maybe next time they can give me the ps3 and just say they smashed it