Comparison Says PS3 Slim Box Maybe Kinda Realish

@ps360blows:

Glad I'm not alone. Hopefully they unveil this at E3 (IF it's even real.) so we can end speculation. :)

[www.ultimateps3.fr]

@dresam: They actually claimed to have unmasked the fakers. But they're French. Who can trust what the French say?

@magictroll: Um I thought a french site denounced this thing as completely fake? It was a bunch of Chinese guys trying to sell a fake thing they cobbled together online. They sent out those C&D's to make it feel real, and were planning to sell it on ebay when it got popular.

Didn't I read this here?!

Well, now we know its real. :3

@leviathan.in.pieces: HOW THE HELL AM I GOING TO PLAY GAMES WITH THAT TYPE OF FONT????

That's how ridiculous your statement sounds to me.

Sorry, really.

@A-Rude-Hero: I know right? What level of mental deficiency does it take to not realize that EVERY PS3 game is on a Blu-Ray disc.

Oh man,, you guys should checked that taiwan attorney office address..

That place is a plain empty lot lol.

ye0073

@Jnas: Real. 100% sure.

@Mr. Mew: ON WITH THE SHOW!

@leviathan.in.pieces: it is. PS2 and PSP fonts much better.

TT

@DigitalHero: I know. This thing just screams "cheap Chinese knockoff."

ps360blows

@DigitalHero: I think the new redesign looks nice. Any console would look like a cheap piece of crap when you're looking at half of a plastic chassis.

Bialia

@Bialia: but they are abbreviating it in any case

Bialia

@scotty: They're still using the spiderman font for the abbreviated PS3 logo- but the are abbreviating it in any case. Perhaps the font change will come shortly.

And @Shadowcast, I agree with you totally. The spiderman font has always sucked. I like the new one better.

Bialia

@Ultima08: why would they not announce it, and instead build no hype for a product that comes out in four months?

@Oblique: Yeah, but the NEW NEW PS3 logo that you can see at the end of the inFamous commercial and also on the end of the BRINK teaser from awhile back show a different PS3 logo using the typeface from the PLAYSTATION 3 logo. The spiderman font.

@Vespene: That makes them a B-list celebrity dur.

Man, whoever recently took over for Sony's hardware design department needs to be fired ASAP.

robpe36

@mcdufus: Does anyone else find it amusing that the same people who claim the spy shots are most definitely fake absolutely believe a report by a website about a bunch of guys who claim to have faked it?

dresam

This is just like the PS2 slim, and I don't remember that removing any features (heck, it added the Ethernet in!). Now that the PS3's disc drive and CPU/GPU can be made smaller and less power sucking, you can make a smaller, cheaper, cooler console.

Sony wouldn't ever remove the hard drive; axing the Wi-Fi is possible, but the cost is a comparatively negligible part of the system.

Zachary Waldowski

@the7k: haha I noticed that as well.

It is just a font though. I'm a little more interested in what's actually in the box. :P

@Gam3r: I read the article, it's junk. So you believe that site was the only site resourceful enough to get a hold of the people who made the fake photos, and the scam artists immediately came clean on their scheme of designing and manufacturing phony PS3 slims to sell on ebay?

@Jnas: and if it is real count me in sony as your returning customer(ps2 owner now 360 owner)

JetPogi

@Gam3r: Too elaborate to be a fake. In one pic you can see the pink and green surfaces that are identical to the current PS3 manufacturing facility.

The similarities in the boxes seals the deal for me. If it was a fake there's no way the hoaxer(s) could know what the PSP Go packaging would look like.

@Tim Reilly: Given that EVERY SINGLE PS3 game, even those that were on DVD on 360, is on bluray, you won't be able to play ANY games. So, yeah, have fun with that King Evil

@mcdufus:
Like you, I actually read the article, and I agree it's probably (currently) a fake. But a PS3 Slim may be coming this fall.

Gam3r

@Jnas: I say i love how e3 news/trailers etc all come out before E3

@Mit: like ive said before, my gaming machine could be 3 cubic feet and i wouldnt care as long as it performed like i expect and doesnt break repeatedly. slim looks cool but it makes no difference to me. hopefully it will make more people want to own a ps3 though

Hoytzilla

@Theoutlet: haha same it was pretty intense... but the ps3 logo on the newer things coming out of sony doesnt look like that. it uses the same font that theyve been using on ps3 the whole time. the one on the box uses the ps2 font. i dont think its THE box but its like a test box or something

@Chupakun uses Synonym Attack!:

Well, if the new "official" images are indeed official, I retract my statement on the PSPgo.

If the PS3-Slim is indeed the real PS3-Slim, then I stand by my original thought of: That looks like a dust pan... that plays Bluray.

I Doubted that the ps3 box was fake at first because of the new PS3 logo then I remember that when the original PS1 went slim Sony changed its logo to the PS One, so Im thinking it is official now.

@DigitalHero: I'm surprised you can make such a dependable assumption on its aesthetics.
Usually someone might want to take another look at the side or perhaps the front angles of the system.
Its smaller, which makes it a appealing choice for the space savvy consumer(Hello Japan!!!). That however limits how it can placed(horizontally/vetically).
The finish is also a design choice based on changing aesthetic desires.

@Jnas: SAY YEEAAASSSS!!!

GMO! Backwards!

@Riagan: no wireless may be possible, but no HDD is just plain stupid because one of the main points for a ps3 is that each system has a standard hdd so that developers wouldnt need to worry about those things

@Theoutlet: ;D

Boxxy

@Neo-Senku: The World's Finest Pervert: How would it screw with remote play? My PS3 is hooked right into my router and remote play still works on it.

@Lemonade: Still looks bad to me. The lack of shiny is off-putting. The PS2 Slim had the nice little sleak bar across the middle atleast. The top of this slim PS3 looks like a sea of black plastic. Could've atleast used a chrome PLAYSTATION 3 logo.

I too, however, will be content with my giant PS3 if this turns out to be real. I think it's a lot sexier, and I doubt this slim model will have nearly as many features (although they've already pretty much cut most of the physical features of PS3's in their more recent models anyways).

Slim is totally real...but will not be at E3. Coming this Fall.

Ultima08

I think I'll sell my 40GB PS3 and get a new one later.

SuprShin

@noppiN: not the Flux Capacitor hopefully!

Rey Rodrigues

I want this to be true so bad it's not even funny.

nikolaj

@Mike Out: Some people actually find design an important factor in purchasing hundreds of dollars worth of electronics... now form should never get in the way of function; but that doesn't mean you can't have both.

the new ps3 doesnt look as nice as the current one but atleast it's smaller. hopefully it'll have a faster blueray drive. it's about time i pick up a blueray player

insomniac

do you guys think that the PSP Go and PS3 slim (if real) would be sold alongside the PSP 3000 and Current 80GB "big" model? They said the Go would be sold ALONG with the 3000, so I see a trend...

@Rinaldus: You'd feel bad if they really did have Parkinsons lol

@leviathan.in.pieces: More importantly though, it's standardized which would suggest both boxes are real, besides it's a damn sight better than the Spiderman font they've been using.

@the7k: Aww I liked the "waauump" noise.

@TheFuzzyNinja: annnnnd! lol the PS3 slim is really ugly, id take that fat any day over the slim

@D0RC: i to have to agree, the original psp designs were pretty sexy and sleek, this, i dont know, looks kinda, well, ugly

@Agumen: Amen. It's part of the show, y'all know?

@Rey Rodrigues: Yeah, size matters!

Amirite girls?!

@spigeddie: As far as I'm concerned, with all this news leaking out, e3 has now started. It'll end after the last major presser, as we'll have all the news by then. The actual three days of the shows then offer nothing new. Strange way of doing things but that's how it is.

@K1NG EV1L: Yeh, try playing games on a BLURAY disc, on a console that doesn't have a BLURAY drive, genius.

@DigitalHero: I'm happy with my big PS3, so if this turns out to be real, I won't get one. Also, I agree that it is ugly, kinda reminds me of those rip off consoles.

@Jnas: what you gonna do with a puny little PS3?

Rey Rodrigues

@DigitalHero: the look of it on the box doesnt look too bad, that mockup on the other article looks far too different to this to be real, and it looks like its made out of foam... :P

@Riagan:
*sigh* they will not have to remove any features. one of the greatest costs to Sony is storage space. Half the size box = half the storage cost.

jedbeetle

@Rinaldus: Because they realized they were about to leak the new PS3?

@K1NG EV1L:

Given that many ps3 games are on blu-ray, it wouldn't make any sense to take that out...

Tim Reilly

@scotty: Yeah, I noticed that as well, with the recent InFamous commercial.

Also noticed that instead of the PlayStation 3 'weird glowing' sound effect (Dunno how a SFX can glow, but that's the feeling I get), they use the old "PlayStation" voice clip at the end.

Perhaps they are trying to bring it back to basics.

@noliferuin (PSN+XBL): OBJECTION!
I can point out over 3 things that make them the same.
1. The Sony logo is in the exact same spot
2. The PS3/PSP brand is in the same spot
3. The 16GB/120GB for the PSP/PS3 is in the same spot
4. The bands in the middle. Blue for Portable Red for slim.
5. The positioning of the console handheld is the same.
6. Both have English/French name for GB.

While most of them are about same spots and such they are too similar. I call real.

mitch_93

@spannu: Yeah but it still adds up to some cost so they might be cutting all the cost they can in order to try and do a price cut with it too.

xxXX_Insanities_Birth_XXxx

@holmeszk: yes its shiny

Merch Wnek

Slim or not I don't care, since I already got the original PS3.

I think the slim box is fake still. There's something about the PS3 logo that doesn't sit right with me. The way it's rounded, or something...

@Riagan: Your not gonna see a PS3 without a hard drive, you'll see ones with bigger hard drives as smaller hd sizes are phased out as the bigger ones become cheaper. At this point I Don't think that wireless is coming out the system. If they really thought it would be worth it to do so i think they would have decided to do so before now. Also removing wireless would mess with the remote play thing they have with the ps3 and psp.

Neo-Senku: The World's Finest Pervert

@Orionsaint: Have fun with your ps3 that can't, you know, play ps3 games.

A-Rude-Hero

@SamuraiKyo: I know right! They're the only games on the 360!

Beyond-Infinity

@leviathan.in.pieces: I can already tell it's real. All the recent PS3 commercials have adopted the rounder "PS3" instead of using spiderman font "Playstation 3"

scotty

Christmas is ruined, little Timmy. Someone went and leaked yet ANOTHER treat for you. Oh well, at least the gonorrhea was a surprise.

@Kaddisfly: Your personal opinion be highly correct.

@Orionsaint: Hell yes. I just want to play infamous and god of war 3 when it comes out and the only way they can do that is a price drop. I don't want a blueray player, I want a damn playstation 3 game system.

Sony is like a C-list celebrity: glamorous, spending more than they make, and horrible at keeping secrets.

@D0RC:

I have to agree, those things really are ugly.

ME86

@Jnas:

I say someone needs to layoff the cap lock

@mitch_93: they don't really look all that similar to me tbh. the blurry pic where you can't really tell what the PS3 slim looks like doesn't help either.

@Mike Out: Agreed, I think im gonna be too busy staring at the screens to care that much about how its hardware looks.

Neo-Senku: The World's Finest Pervert

$299 PS3 SLIM overkill the other box

tingyu

@mcdufus: That has to be the best part. Why make a similar looking box to the go before it was announced post pics from a similar looking factory to the one churning out PS3's and have such good looking parts?

mitch_93

@mcdufus: Well I was only glimpsing by so I wasn't planning on reading the article but you gave me the gist now anyway.

Sounds kinda bad then cos I was hoping for a slim PS3.

xxXX_Insanities_Birth_XXxx

@geddymcc: The system would be non-functional without a hard drive. There are other features which could easily be removed in order to reduce manufacturing costs.

spannu

It seems matte is the the new shiny?

holmeszk

i have the qore episode :) that talks about psp go

Merch Wnek

@Yowza57: Same here, PSP and PS3, but my two "phatties" haven't lost their appeal, quite the opposite, in fact! I appreciate to be able to play with my hands spread a little wider, as far as the portable is concerned. As for the PS3, it looks smug with its 500 GB hard drive and its PS2 backward-compatibility.

Still curious to know what's removed or added in that new PS3 slim, though, for it seems that it should replace the present versions, since the rumour has it that Sony delays its launch in order to get the "old" off the shelves...

Anyway, only time will tell...

franckv

@XRFlip05: If that ever happened it would be the end of 360 for sure.

@xxXX_Insanities_Birth_XXxx: if you read the article,it actually talks about how the law firm was a sham and that they did it to possibly sell a fake slim ps3.

mcdufus

@K1NG EV1L:

Agreed! Take bluray out and they could sell it for $199

@Demonbird: I don't give a damn about wireless so they can toss it out. But on the other they don't need to remove stuff to lower the price, the hardware revision to make it smaller, have smaller chips and production costs going down as time goes by always occurs. Just like how blue ray players get cheaper. Sony's in a bit of a mess financially so in this case they may need to remove stuff to get the price down though.

xxXX_Insanities_Birth_XXxx

@Rinaldus: Because it could somehow counterbalance their blurry-as-shit cameras.

SEX_BISON

@Riagan: Do you not see the word "120 GB" on the box?

geddymcc

@TheCodexx: Who on earth would have to time and patience to actually make this though? I mean the older post which got Kotaku told off by the big mean nasty lawyer dudes, must mean its got some realism to it.

I'm all for redesigns, especially if they end up retailing for a lower cost... but damn, in my personal opinion, the PSPgo and the PS3-Slim are fucking ugly.

@xxXX_Insanities_Birth_XXxx: The plastic shell is the least expensive part of the product. If the electronics are smaller now, they could easily make the outside look better. Considering Sony is known for making pretty, shiny, plastic electronics, hopefully the final revision will be different from what we've seen so far.

spannu

@mcdufus: To me those guys are idiots. I would believe much more 2 Sony boxes for future products that look exactly the same with one appearing almost a month before the other then a bunch of french guys.

mitch_93

@mcdufus: Well there was the case of the Taiwanese lawyers contacting Kotaku so it's hard to tell if they're fake or not.

xxXX_Insanities_Birth_XXxx

unless there is also a story that says the PS3 slim will play PS2 games I couldn't care less about a slimmer ps3. although it does look pretty slick.

I've yet to play a single xbox game on my 360 so the feature is useless for me.

meanwhile, I've got about 10 ps2 games I have not even played yet let alone opened. I'm not giving up my backwards compatibility.

Qwizatblah

@FanBuoy:
If you want it cheaper, be ready to not complain when features are removd.
It will have an hdd still, but wireless, maybe not.

Seriously, who cares about the look of their home console?! Mine is where it should be, sometimes I move it but never, have I found myself looking at it. Most people have it tucked away, and as long as it's not bright pink I don't give a fuck.

If this means a cheaper, lower power demanding, smaller, lighter, less noisier PS3(/PSP) then by all means, get 'm on the market.

@PSP GO, not too excited about the design, but looks functional.

Mike Out

@SadAstronaut: That's exactly what a slim PS3 will bring, a trimmed down product resulting in lower production costs and therefore lower prices.

They probably can't continue building the PS3 now if they wanted a price drop.

rougheo

@Jnas: PSP go yea PS3 Slim no

Mactheridon

Why does everyone who takes these pictures seem to have Parkinsons?

Rinaldus

@FanBuoy: The point would be it takes less materials and cost to make it, meaning Sony could finally start breaking even with the ps3, and then some time down the road after that you'd have your price cuts.

Neo-Senku: The World's Finest Pervert

what about this article that says the people who made the pics owning up to it being fake? not sure how reliable this site is though but it says they contacted the people who allegedly faked it.

[www.ultimateps3.fr]

mcdufus

@FanBuoy: And a cheaper PS3 equals to a stripped PS3 (meaning, no built-in wireless and probably no HDD) so in that way they could probably reduce the heat coming out of the console plus reducing even more costs so they could offer it cheaper than the "fat" model (which i still prefer, this "slim", if it is real indeed, looks 2nd hand to me).

Riagan

@SadAstronaut: If the slim one has missing features, then it might be the other way around. Good news for somebody maybe, but it's still pretty hard to tell at this point.

spannu

The chance that PS3 Slim is real are looking up. This PS3 Slim image/design was the only one Sony bothered to order a take-down of. They did nothing of the sort for all the fake designs of PSP GO.

The main question is...can they be T3H H4XX0R3d?!?

ESPECIALLY the PSP GO...

I hope they plan a price drop for the slim PS3, I just want to play the damn games, I don't care for the god damn bluray movies.

K1NG EV1L

@Jnas: In Soviet Russia yes say no.

BarbeQueQ

@TnadeN: Except for they just announced Gears and Halo for the PS3.

...Just kidding! But could you imagine?!

@TnadeN: But what they're delivering is still the same. And who knows if they have other cool stuff lined up anyway. We can wait a day and see what's announced or we can get it announced now and it's all the same in the end.

xxXX_Insanities_Birth_XXxx

Man these things looks ugly.

D0RC

I have both a regular ps3 and psp, but I still want these :(

Yowza57

It doesn't make it real, people can make some really detailed stuff. If this was official it was perhaps a mock-up for something? We might never know if it is/was a real product, after all the hate it got, they probably went back to the drawing board.

TheCodexx

Of course it's real...Taiwanese lawyers don't get all uppity for nuthin'!

@leviathan.in.pieces: I have to agree. Although the idea of a slim PS3 is enticing because it will hopefully cuase a price drop in the original.

SadAstronaut

Man, Sony's E3 press conference is getting less exiting by the minute.

Is the success of a gamesite getting exclusive gossip now governed by how successful their lawyer is nowadays?

David Wells

It'd be cool if the slim PS3 was real. I know it's not the best design but the parts will be smaller so it'll be cheaper to develop which makes price cuts more likely and it's smaller (I couldn't even fit the PS3 on my PC desk since it has another desk above it with my TV and PC screen on so it couldn't fit).

xxXX_Insanities_Birth_XXxx

I hope its real, but I'm worried about what's being taken out.

noppiN

Oh man Owen. I was hoping that PS3 slim was fake due to the ugliness. *slaps forehead* It's looking more plausible now.

Those with their betting pools on this getting excited?

E3 Swag! Woo!

This seems too easy, but why would you get a C&D if it wasn't real?
In any case, a Slim PS3 should equal a cheaper PS3, otherwise I really don't see any point in this whatsoever.

It's well and good with a handheld, because your carrying it around all day and you're bound to notice the difference, but something sitting by your TV all day isn't going to really impact you by being a few inches wider, unless your room is a cupboard.

You can tell both go hand in hand. The PSP goes left while the PS3 goes right. Or if you put the PSP on the right and the PS3 on the left it makes them come together at the bottom. I say its real. Just let me say this before the fans come in. Both go hand in hand only cause of the bad design..

mitch_93

The rounded font is HORRIBLE.

today has been awesome. i <3 pre-e3 :D

I SAY IT'S REAL.

WHAT SAY YOU?

Judging by how ugly the new PSP it might fit to have a new uglier PS3 as well. god knows what's going on in sony's design department.

I'm quite happy with my PSP 1000 for now, all my contents downloaded anyways pretty much. I see no reason to shell out for a smaller screen and an uglier console. for now.

Tim Ford

I hope its not real, that thing is UGLY.

@Svend Joscelyne: I think they mean the infamous commercial that was coming up on Gametrailers, it looks decidedly different from that. I had a quick look over some vids to see if I could find it again but no luck :/

@scotty: Which adverts are these? I'd like to see them, because I can only see the 'good old' Spiderman font:

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Svend Joscelyne

I say it's REAL just NOT YET OFFICIAL. Too expensive to be a hoax. Plus, the cease and desist order sort of validates its authenticity.

Hopefully it gets confirmation from Sony at E3. Although I won't be adopting early this time (my launch PS3 YLOD'd January this year).

SuperMarion

@TheCodexx: One thing: If this is a fake, the person responsible would have to have seen the Go box first. So it's unlikely this is fake.

MadMinstrel

@Cheese Addict: Only your mother apparently. (if you get the reference you are a okay)

mitch_93

@Zachary Waldowski: Negligible cost? That's what I said about the other two USB ports on the PS3. Saving 50 cents for Sony equals me shelling out 20 bucks to get my extra USB ports and memory card reader back.

HideyoshiJP

Ironically, that move to a more rounded font for the PS3 brand reminds me of this commercial for an imagined PS9, from back when the PS2 was launched:

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jeremyschultz

@mitch_93: Seconded. That is one atrocious box design.

@bakagaijin: I already have properly-fonted Sony consoles so I needn't worry.

Sorry, really.