One kart racer on this list was only meant for a handful of South American countries, and most of the American copies turned up in places like Texas. The PS3 is still a cheap console to collect for, so the games that cost real money here are the odd ones: late releases, small print runs and a few licensed games that vanished from the store.
Every price below is a real eBay sale made between February 2023 and September 2026, never an asking price. For each game we took the sales of loose discs (the disc alone, no case) from its latest year of sales and used the middle price, so one wild auction can't push a game up the list. A game with fewer than five loose sales in a year got two years instead. You only need the disc to play, so the loose price sets the order.
10. Asura's Wrath (2012)
Loose discs of Asura's Wrath sold for a typical $45 across 30 sales between February and August 2025, and boxed copies went for a typical $53 across 30 sales. CyberConnect2 made it and Capcom published it on the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360.
It mixes Hindu and Buddhist myth with science fiction. Asura is a demigod out for revenge on the other demigods who betrayed him, and the story plays out like a TV series, with opening and closing credits on every episode. The game switches between third-person brawling, rail shooting and button prompts during the cutscenes, which is why people call it an interactive anime. Critics loved the story and argued about the rest. If you like your boss fights the size of a planet and don't mind watching more than you play, it is the cheapest game on this list, and the 360 disc plays the same game.
9. Painkiller: Hell & Damnation (2013)
Loose discs of Painkiller: Hell & Damnation sold for a typical $49 across 6 sales between February 2023 and November 2024, and boxed copies went for a typical $99 across 30 sales. It is both a remake of and a sequel to Painkiller, made by The Farm 51 and published by Nordic Games.
The Xbox 360 version never came out on disc in North America, so the PS3 disc is the only North American console release. It is a first-person shooter about a dead man in Purgatory who makes a deal to fight Lucifer's army in exchange for a ticket to Heaven. The console versions were toned down after German censors called the game too evil, and the gameplay is classic Painkiller. Plenty of European copies show up for sale, so check for the ESRB M rating on the cover if you want the North American one. If you just want to play it, the Windows version was also sold through Steam.
8. Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star (2014)
Loose discs of Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star sold for a typical $50 across 11 sales between April and November 2024, and boxed copies went for a typical $52 across 30 sales. Gust made it and Koei Tecmo published it, and it came out in North America on September 23, 2014.
It is a Japanese RPG drawn in the anime style of Gust's Atelier games, and it puts the story and the characters first. The battles were built to look flashy but stay simple and quick, so they never get in the way of the plot. NIS America sold a limited edition through its own store with the soundtrack, an art book and a poster. That's a lot of extras for a game so few people bought on disc. Vita owners have the easy route: Ar nosurge Plus came out there the next year with all of the downloadable content included.
7. Splatterhouse (2010)
Loose discs of Splatterhouse sold for a typical $63 across 30 sales between December 2025 and May 2026, and boxed copies went for a typical $84 across 30 sales. Namco Bandai brought back its horror beat 'em up as a reboot of the 1988 original after watching Capcom do well with Resident Evil.
Making it was messy. Namco Bandai cut the first studio, BottleRocket, over what it called a "performance issue", and handed the game to its own team, the one that had just finished Afro Samurai. The reviews were mediocre and sales were fairly low, and the print run was small. You still get a masked man tearing monsters in half, which is the whole point of Splatterhouse. The Xbox 360 version is a bit easier to find, and the PS3 disc carries a small premium over it.
6. Yakuza: Dead Souls (2012)
Loose discs of Yakuza: Dead Souls sold for a typical $73 across 30 sales between January and November 2025, and boxed copies went for a typical $89 across 29 sales. Sega made it for the PlayStation 3 only, and the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami pushed back its Japanese release.
It took nearly two years and a brush with cancellation, but Sega got the spin-off out. A zombie outbreak hits Kamurocho, and four of the series' heroes shoot their way through it. The guns are the star: pistols, shotguns, sniper rifles and miniguns. You can still pick up bicycles and street signs and hit zombies with them, which saves the shooting when it gets bland. It plays a bit like the first Dead Rising. Sega even added a second control layout to the US release with the fire button on R1, which was kind of them. Yakuza fans who want everything have to pay for this one.
5. El Chavo Kart (2014)
Loose discs of El Chavo Kart sold for a typical $81 across 18 sales between July 2024 and March 2025, and boxed copies went for a typical $100 across 30 sales. It is a Mario Kart-style racer based on El Chavo Animado, a cartoon that is hugely popular in Spanish-speaking countries.
Efecto Studios in Colombia and Slang in Mexico made it, and Televisa published it for the Xbox 360 and the PS3. The PS3 disc first came out in a handful of South American countries, with only a few copies sold in the United States, mostly in markets like Texas. In Mexico it used to cost $5 to $10. Then Mexican players started selling copies to friends in the US, and more of them reached eBay. The reviews were mixed. You are paying for a cartoon you grew up with, and that is a perfectly good reason to pay.
4. 3D Dot Game Heroes (2009)
Loose discs of 3D Dot Game Heroes sold for a typical $85 across 30 sales between July and September 2026, and boxed copies went for a typical $106 across 30 sales. Of the ten games here, this one has the newest sales.
It is a huge homage to The Legend of Zelda, made of chunky 3D blocks, and it is packed with references to NES games. The loading screens are jokes too. Atlus brought it to North America and reported in October 2010 that it had sold 160,000 units, more than six times what it expected. Selling six times your guess still means there aren't enough copies for everyone now. It scored 77 on Metacritic. If you grew up on the first Zelda, this is the PS3 game made for you, and nobody else ever made one quite like it.
3. Spider-Man: Web of Shadows (2008)
Loose discs of Spider-Man: Web of Shadows sold for a typical $85 across 30 sales between June and October 2025, and boxed copies went for a typical $118 across 30 sales. Activision pulled it from every digital store on January 1, 2014, along with most of its Marvel games, so the disc is the only way to buy it.
Shaba Games made it with help from Treyarch, and it was that studio's only Spider-Man game. You swing around an open-world Manhattan and switch between the red and blue suit and the black symbiote suit whenever you like. The story is much darker than most Spider-Man games, with a symbiote invasion taking over the city. Reviews praised the boss fights and the destruction and knocked the camera. Skip the PS2 version if you want this game: it is a different side-scrolling beat 'em up. The Xbox 360 and Windows versions are the same open-world game.
2. Afrika (2008)
Loose discs of Afrika sold for a typical $95 across 8 sales between June 2024 and February 2025, and boxed copies went for a typical $150 across 29 sales. Rhino Studios made it and Sony published it, and Natsume brought it to North America.
Think of it as a wildlife Pokémon Snap. You are a photographer on a safari, documenting animals across a conservation area, and the game tries to copy what real professional photography feels like. Some critics said it didn't quite meet its ambitions, but a lot of players found it relaxing and great for animal lovers. Wataru Hokoyama wrote the orchestral soundtrack. In Japan it debuted at number two in its first week, selling 38,423 units. Import copies are easy to find, but the North American release is the only version with trophies, and that disc is the one that costs.
1. BlazBlue: Central Fiction (2016)
Loose discs of BlazBlue: Central Fiction sold for a typical $180 across 5 sales between March 2023 and April 2024, and boxed copies went for a typical $204 across 26 sales. Only five loose discs sold in two years. Nearly everyone who buys it wants the case too.
Arc System Works made this 2D fighter, and the console version came out in North America on November 1, 2016, on the PS3 and the PS4 at the same time. It closes the BlazBlue story, and the story mode runs around forty hours, on top of a roster that grew to thirty-seven characters. By late 2016 most fighting game players had moved to the PS4, which goes a long way toward explaining why so few PS3 discs are around. You don't need the PS3 disc to play it. A Steam port came out on April 26, 2017, and it got rollback netcode on February 1, 2022.
