PS3 Slim around he corner?

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: Queasy
AHAHAHAHAHA

Yeah, that's interesting to say the least. Sony has never, until now, used an official PS3 logo. It's always been the original PS design and "PlayStation 3" (with that special font) as the logo. Only time it's ever been close to PS3 is on the game cases in the upper left corner, where it is PS and 3 underneath in, in that font.

Written out like that is intriguing. Sony obviously will make a Slim, if they follow the previous trend. And it's an excellent time to drop the price, not to mention up the consumer interest yet again, as has occurred with every other Slim release.

Those leaked Slim photos, are probably demo units, and they probably have been making a couple different styles, with different "PS3" logos to see what they think is best.

My bet: Sony announces and showcases the official PS3 Slim design at E3. It's in the first week of June, so all this timing makes a LOT of sense.

Announce at E3, have it released early fall ahead of the end of the year game releases like Uncharted 2.

Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles

Originally posted by: purbeast0
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That would be pretty awesome if a PS3 slim came out and was like $250 or so.

Oh man these times leading up to E3 are fun and full of rumors!

Why not make it capable of playing all console and PC games ever to exist @ 1080p60 w/ 8xAA while we're at it? That would pretty awesome indeed.

The system is still $400 entry level, and we're supposed to believe the R&D costs plus streamlined components aren't going to offset any minimal savings die shrinks will bring? IIRC the PS3 still costs more to produce than what it sells for...

The streamlined PS One and PS2 Slimline didn't come until each system was selling for half their initial MSRP, and that was when Sony was absolutely dominating the home console market...

Well there are a LOT of things that can be swapped out if the console is redesigned, all smaller components. Many smaller components cannot even be put into the current PS3 design, they'd have to drastically change the interior design and might as well just bring it all together.
There is no other reason to explain why Sony has been so sluggish to bring down the cost to manufacture the PS3. This much time has passed and they've only dropped it to about $430 last I saw.

edit: and believe me, most of the time I just laugh at rumors. But some things are just lining up right now that just seem strange. Yes, pre-E3 brings out all the worst rumors, but this seems a little different.

 

[R Nilla]

Cease and desist order sent to Engadget to take down the PS3 slim photos from--not Sony but--a Chinese company!

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: Thraxen
I think this is almost certainly legit. I'll just post what someone wrote up over at Joystiq as it makes a lot of sense:

This makes perfect sense as the timeline of the PS2 slim fits this timing with the PS3. 3 years after release production stopped on the old model and the new cheaper PS2slim was manufactured during the summer, while the old stock cleared out.

The new Sony plants capable of fabbing the new 45nm Cell are about to come online next month, they need something to go into. The new Cell runs cooler, which is related to the next point.

The PS3 shell is a fucking brick because it was all v.1 tech. I opened my launch one to repair and was shocked at the gigantic heatsink array, taking up a full third of the internal space. Shots of a new MUCH smaller heatsink array leaked out months ago, that is for the new cooler Cell. Also the *universal* power supply unit takes up a quarter of the space inside. Switch to an per-region external power brick (trick the 360 and slim PS2 used) and thats even less space, and heat venting, required. Same can be said for the v.1 Blu-Ray drive, its a fucking brick and the new Sony-made ones are much cheaper and slimmer. Losing the big 3 internal units will allow them to have a PS3-slim without mods to the motherboard (which is nearly half the size of the original backwards compatible board anyway). And theres the now defunct USB and MediaCard reader ports, that original bit is a huge waste of space on the outside at the moment.

And obviously, price cut. They ain't a stupid company, they know that its time to go to a more mainstream price this holiday season, even if its just in Japan for now, this will then appeal to the Japanese who love all things slim, right in time for the FFXIII release.
This is perfectly possible and some would say inevitable this year, but they would never admit it early as people on the fence about buying one would wait till this is released.
This is probably just a test unit, you can tell by the cheaper looking plastic, while they get the fabbing plant up to speed/bugs ironed out, and workers trained, you have to make tons of those before you turn the production line up to full, no point wasting the glossy plastic on it.
I'd bet good money that this is the real deal. A thread on GAF about this is currently doing fine detective work on it, http://www.neogaf.com/forum/sh...ad.php?t=361611&page=4 (NEW! Maintek have yanked the original thread!)
Sorry to waffle here but this is a news megaton thats a long time coming.

NO USB? how do you charge your controllers and plug in your keyboard????

 

[SvenTardigan]

Originally posted by: sao123NO USB? how do you charge your controllers and plug in your keyboard????

My controllers are all bluetooth and I also have a bluetooth keyboard. I really don't see the need for USB.

 

[Yreka]

Originally posted by: SvenTardigan

Originally posted by: sao123NO USB? how do you charge your controllers and plug in your keyboard????

My controllers are all bluetooth and I also have a bluetooth keyboard. I really don't see the need for USB.

Originally posted by: sao123NO USB? how do you charge your controllers and plug in your keyboard????

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: SvenTardigan

Originally posted by: sao123NO USB? how do you charge your controllers and plug in your keyboard????

My controllers are all bluetooth and I also have a bluetooth keyboard. I really don't see the need for USB.

sorry bud... bluetooth DOES NOT CHARGE their batteries...

 

[NikolaeVarius]

NO USB? how do you charge your controllers and plug in your keyboard????

You can plug the controllers into any USB port to charge em

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: SvenTardigan

Originally posted by: sao123NO USB? how do you charge your controllers and plug in your keyboard????

My controllers are all bluetooth and I also have a bluetooth keyboard. I really don't see the need for USB.

sorry bud... bluetooth DOES NOT CHARGE their batteries...

You need to upgrade to bluetooth 5.0.

 

[A Casual Fitz]

Originally posted by: Queasy
AHAHAHAHAHA

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[Queasy]

Originally posted by: A Casual Fitz

Originally posted by: Queasy
AHAHAHAHAHA

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Heh. Looks like they pulled the page. Basically, the original author wrote something about the pics confirming the existence of a PS3 Slim coming and he had an inside source of something doubly confirming it.

The editor of the site posted an update apologizing for the story and saying that the original author had been fired.

 

[Thraxen]

Originally posted by: sao123
NO USB? how do you charge your controllers and plug in your keyboard????

That quote is referring to the fact that the first systems had 4 ports, but the current models all now have 2 ports.

[edit] Nevermind, it was posted above.

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: A Casual Fitz

Originally posted by: Queasy
AHAHAHAHAHA

Error 404 - Page Not Found

Heh. Looks like they pulled the page. Basically, the original author wrote something about the pics confirming the existence of a PS3 Slim coming and he had an inside source of something doubly confirming it.

The editor of the site posted an update apologizing for the story and saying that the original author had been fired.

google search the link http://playstationlifestyle.ne...fficial-ps3-slim-logo/ and you can see the cache. (For some reason the forums mangle the direct link to the cache.)

 

[Thraxen]

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/05...ce-to-rumored-slim-ps/

 

[Rage187]

in for one if they are $199.