Rumorama: Slim PS3 This Fall?
The folks at T3 have a delicious morsel of gossip concerning a well-informed Sony insider and a sleek and sexy new PS3 model - they've also done a mockup, which is the source of the image, lest ye get your hopes up.
Sony certainly has a history of introducing slimmer redesigns (the PSX, PS2 and PSP, for instance) - so it would actually be more off-track if the PS3 didn't get a physical update at some point.
But whether the probably-forthcoming 160GB PS3 and this rumored anorexic are one and the same remains to be seen. From a tactical standpoint, I can't see Sony - who concocted the pared-down 40GB PS3 and killed backward compatibility to cut costs and stave off financial ruin - being willing to spend the dough for such a monumental redesign so soon. Surely they've got to recover some of their losses first? But that begs the question of whether or not the 160GB PS3 is simply feature brinkmanship with Microsoft (ie, they've got a big hard drive, so we need a big hard drive) or part of a larger thrust that could include a heavy financial investment for something like a physical redesign.
And now I'm confused.
New Playstation 3 this autumn? [T3]
[via Gizmodo]
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Posted to Hot Stuff, Miscellany on 1 February 2008
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This is about as real as that website claiming "Sony employee quoted at GDC as saying In-Game XMB coming this year" a few months ago, or that Xbox site that claimed to have an interview with one of their CEOs.
All of them are stories made by web sites to drum up interest and traffic to their site. Bogus stories that are nothing but BS. Unfortunately, everyone's buying in to it.
You heard it here first.
Hush, hush, and on the QT.
Am I the only one perplexed by why it's a big deal that a non-portable system is becoming smaller?
re: kidicarus222
well, aside from the fact that the PS3 and 360 are both rather beefy units (they're almost as big as my 5 disc CD changer) there's the fact that smaller units in the Playstation life cycle are more reliable. (the PSOne and PS2 Slim are considerably more reliable than their beefier brothers.)
also, such a drastic redesign little over one year into the console's lifespan, after how many hardware revisions already, could be construed as a sign that Sony doesn't have as much faith in their console. they anticipated to be able to make up their hardware losses in software and Blu-Ray. while the dust is settling and Blu-Ray appears to be the winner of the DVD format war, it is unknown if it will really take off right now, or if it will go the way of the Laserdisc until the market is more prepared.
regardless, smaller, more space friendly, consoles are always welcome to those of us who have 8+ systems all plugged into one TV.