Cat in the Hat
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This is the most convincing fake ever, if its not real.
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Slim PS3 ...good fake or...
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MikeE21286
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HUELEN10 said:
That's tough....this at 299 would definitely move a lot of units though.
KernelPanic
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I believe it's real (or a real elaborate hoax).
Sony needs to cut the costs of the PS3 and with 45nm chips due this year, it's as good of a time as any. No way they can drop below 399 without reducing the amount of materials needed for the current unit.
Whether they cut the price depends on on how much they're losing on the system right now and how much they'd save with the slim. I imagine they're watching the value of the yen as well.
Sony needs to cut the costs of the PS3 and with 45nm chips due this year, it's as good of a time as any. No way they can drop below 399 without reducing the amount of materials needed for the current unit.
Whether they cut the price depends on on how much they're losing on the system right now and how much they'd save with the slim. I imagine they're watching the value of the yen as well.
Goldrusher
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I hope it's not real.
It looks ugly, cheap and "off".
Also, another logo / font ?
It looks ugly, cheap and "off".
Also, another logo / font ?
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Deleted member 22576
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ok, now that's fuckin hot.
Arpharmd B
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I don't know if anyone touched on this yet, but the logo is like a mish mash of the PS1 and PS2.
It's soft and round like the PS1 but in the P_|- 2 thing going on know what I mean.
I really like it. And it gets back the image of the glorious PS1 and 2, while ditching the Spiderman 3 nonsense.
@ 299 its as good as mine. BC or no BC.
It's soft and round like the PS1 but in the P_|- 2 thing going on know what I mean.
I really like it. And it gets back the image of the glorious PS1 and 2, while ditching the Spiderman 3 nonsense.
@ 299 its as good as mine. BC or no BC.
and as you can tell, I think it's real. 100%.
$h@d0w said:The Cloud Black PS3 looks awesome:
I'm imagining these PS3 slim moulds have the same finish.
After watching all those ps3 slim pics, this looks HUUUUGE!
Also i wouldnt call this new PSThree a slim, Its just a cost productive redesign. In 3-4 years we will se a true ps3 slim.
ClovingWestbrook
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schick85 said:
+2. Seriously, maybe I am alone but I am a big fan of the look of the PS3. This supposed new redesign makes it look like pure crap. And the new logo/font? What in the world?
I don't think that's true anymore. It used to be that way five years ago, sure, but with the recent victory march of laptops, production volumes have already shifted significantly. Ultimately the smaller form factors are going to be cheaper in mass production simply due to less materials being used. Any price advantages of 3.5" drives come from bigger production volumes.AndyD said:
A quick glance at a price aggregator shows me current SATA HDDs start at retail for ~30€, with clearance models going at around 25€. The 3.5" drives have higher capacity, but the price of entry seems to be the same already.
This may very well be real. I wonder if Sony will "cheap out" on the components and materials a bit like they did with the PSP models post 1000. Actually, in the current situation it seems almost certain.
Regarding the HDDs 3.5" is impossible in terms of space in any case, but at the capacities Sony will be looking at it wouldn't surprise me if 2.5" HDDs would turn out cheaper in volume as well.
Regarding the HDDs 3.5" is impossible in terms of space in any case, but at the capacities Sony will be looking at it wouldn't surprise me if 2.5" HDDs would turn out cheaper in volume as well.
maniac-kun
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before you say the redesign is ugly wait for e3 where they show the final model.
ShinoguTakeruKoeru
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Durante said:
Cheap out on what? Only things the later PSPs lacked were an IR port and that matte finish on the back. I'll concede that the plastic-like surface sucks ass, but the silver model 3000 has a nice finish.
There are tons of possibilities without affecting the functionality, some examples are materials, finish, build quality/tolerances, cooling system, heck, the quality of the capacitors used on the MB, and so on.HUELEN10 said:
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't blame them at all. The original PS3 is a wonderful piece of engineering, but sadly the vast majority of potential buyers is not prepared to pay extra for that (and most that are are probably early adopters).
The PS3's components are all really high quality..not talking specifically about the chips and the drive etc. but all the other bits and bobs that make up the system and hold it together. They didn't seem to spare much expense with that, in the original model anyway.
I'm sure they'll seek to economise the 'bits and bobs' used in this model as much as possible. They started very evidently with the case materials, which I'm sure are cheaper than the current models'.
So I think that's how they'll 'cheap out' and I think it makes sense to do that if it lets them do this and cut price. Looking 'cheap' could also strangely have a subtle but positive impact on the machine's perception, as something that is suitable as an 'affordable' family machine, something that's a little more 'ordinary', rather than a delicate, sexy, expensive machine (whose image might imply desireability, but not for everyone).
edit - lol, bcn-ron said it much better than me
I'm sure they'll seek to economise the 'bits and bobs' used in this model as much as possible. They started very evidently with the case materials, which I'm sure are cheaper than the current models'.
So I think that's how they'll 'cheap out' and I think it makes sense to do that if it lets them do this and cut price. Looking 'cheap' could also strangely have a subtle but positive impact on the machine's perception, as something that is suitable as an 'affordable' family machine, something that's a little more 'ordinary', rather than a delicate, sexy, expensive machine (whose image might imply desireability, but not for everyone).
edit - lol, bcn-ron said it much better than me
Durante said:
i dont quite understand - 2.5" would be cheaper in volume as well
.as to the cheapness... it will certainly be a lot cheaper than original 60 GB PS3, however question is if it will be lower quality - which i doubt, as today's models have many initial issues solved.
Teddman said:
It could make it harder if it doesn't expose the bay
Although we can't say for sure..and the opening at the front might be for that.But I'm thinking there'll have to be some tradeoff with this. Even the slimming of the PS2 saw some tradeoffs.
Wollan said:
The ratios of the proportions haven't actually even changed based on our updated guesstimates. The original PS3 was already fairly 'square-ish', it may just become more evident when you slim it down. The width:depth ratio has been preserved if that pic is acccurate.
I'm thinking/hoping we're missing the most substantial change, to its height (which might be up to a 30-40% reduction IMO)..and I think that'll help make it look quite nice when standing..slimness would definitely suit the ps3, when looking at an angle to slim it, the current ps3 looks very sleek. So an actually slim one should look quite nice.
ShinoguTakeruKoeru
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gofreak said:It could make it harder if it doesn't expose the bay
But I'm thinking there'll have to be some tradeoff with this. Even the slimming of the PS2 saw some tradeoffs.
No hard drive add-on, um...
What else did slim PS2 have as a trade-off? I know the first slim line needed an external power brick, and no dial-up port, but that's it.
ShinoguTakeruKoeru said:
I think they dropped a IR port too.
Small tradeoffs but tradeoffs nonetheless. I don't think Sony would arbitrarily trade things off for the sake of it in a new PS3 model, but something like making the HDD non-upgradeable would be similarly 'small' (for most people) and could be a possibility depending on how the innards have been shuffled. I've no reason for thinking this will be the case though, just idle speculation..
Wollan said:
It's hard to say without being able to see a finished model, especially sitting next to the current one for direct comparison.
I mean, the PS2 slim was a pretty similar shape to the original PS2, but visually they are worlds apart. I don't think this PS3 redesign will have quite that same impact because it doesn't look like they will be able to shrink the internals that far, but I'd wager that a lot of people would be swayed by the new look of the console even if the overall design wasn't that different.
ShinoguTakeruKoeru
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gofreak said:
They've kept the IR Port on all the PS2s since, iirc.
I would accept a non-upgradeable hard drive
if it was a Solid-State one
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To save space wouuld be my guess.
intheinbetween
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schick85 said:
+1 :lol
Goldrusher
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There's no sarcasm. It looks horrible.Wollan said:
- cheap plastic
- kiddy logo
- weird proportions
- the curved disc drive section
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