New Playstation 3 this Autumn?
Rumours are swirling of a slimmer, lighter PS3 console...
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Trawling the CES show last month, we happened across a rather juicy piece of gadget gossip that is bound to get your gaming-libido racing.
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According to a particularly well-informed insider, it seems that Sony is prepping an all-new PlayStation 3. The new incarnation is supposedly slimmer, lighter in weight, and sexy as hell. Ie, it doesn't look like a George Foreman grill.
It's not as if Sony hasn't got a history of making things slimmer and, er, lighter: The PSP shed a lot of its weight last summer, the original PlayStation ended up as the minuscule PSOne, and the PlayStation 2 re-incarnated as the PSTwo, which was an all-round sexier piece of kit to boot. Roll on PSThree?
Specs-wise, we're probably looking at the same machine with stacks of space and the trusty Blu-Ray player on board. The new PS3 is a proper looker: if it's anything like the illustration our team of designers have come up with, then we're looking at one hell of a sexy piece of kit.
We wouldn't be at all shocked if the much-touted 160GB PS3 is in fact this slimmed down puppy.
Sony has peddled their usual line of 'not commenting on rumours and speculation', but that is exactly what they said before they dropped the size zero edition of the PSP. For now, that's all we have. But rest assured we'll be pounding the phones and keeping our ears pricked for any news as soon as we get it.
UPDATE: Click here for the official PS3 Slim announcement from Sony, dated 18th August 2009.
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By kiduka
29|08|2009 16:05
I read about the new PS3 Slim console on this blog:
http://www.sonyslimps3.com
It's unfair how everyone else will get the console before us in the UK, it's already released in America but we have to wait until September 1st.
By tusanya2
21|08|2009 02:31
<a href="http://astore.amazon.co.uk/sony-playstation-3-slim-console-21">PS3 Slim - Console and Blu-ray Player</a>
Sony ensured the success of blu-ray against HD-DVD by integrating blu-ray it into the PS3. Sony won the HD format war (with all the future royalties that it brings) - but lost some console sales due to the high cost of buying an original PS3.
This version of the PS3 is identical to the original - except that it is more compact (hence looks better under my large Samsung LCD), has a larger hard drive (120GB), and is cheaper, All good then.