According to Chinese site UDN, Sony have signed production contracts with two companies to begin manufacture of the rumoured PS3 “Slim”, with a delivery date of… oh, next month!
Now, with a PS3 price cut heavily expected around August, and with stocks of the existing 80GB PS3 supposedly dwindling, a July delivery date for the “new” PS3 makes sense. Ship it out in July, have it ready to sell in stores for August.
That is, if it’s real. Which, remember, it may not be!
PS3代工 鴻海搶到大單 [UDN, via Engadget]
Doug
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 12:05 PMIf it was real it would most likely have ‘PLAYSTATION 3′ on the side like the original console not ‘PS3′ shown in the above picture.
Jono
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 2:12 PMbut the PS2 slim has PS2 on it because it’s officially branded the ‘PStwo’ as opposed to the Playstation 2. so it’d most likely be officially named the PSthree and have PS3 on it
mikezombie777
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 12:54 PMIt looks like a friggin doormat! There’s no way it’s real.
Darius
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 5:41 PMeven if it WAS real, it would cost like $999 on release and like 800 bucks 2 years later. rip. off.
Jay
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 2:15 PMThe PS2 Slim worked well. It actually looks okay.
Now one thing SONY hasn’t done well is make a console that looks good. The PSone is just a square, PS2 is just well, UGLY and the Slim actually looks good. Not GREAT but good. It works well.
The PS3 looks good as well. It is heavy and fat. But the coat, shine and the way it arches out suits it. But a slim version of it, NO THANK YOU! The above pic is obviously a flattened version of the PS3 but that doesn’t mean it should look like that. The part that pokes out looks hideous and yea just WRONG!
PS3 Slim is eventually going to come. Just a mater of when. But I serioulsy hope it don’t look like that. And i don’t think they will change the logo and text for it. I like the spiderman font!
NOTE: Sony aren’t the only guilty ones of ugly console. Xbox 1, Gamecube, Dreamcast (aka SEGA Playstation) & the Wii ain’t crash hot.
Kav
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 4:39 PMWho gives a rats ass what they look like, it’s the games that count.
Snacuum
Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 10:57 PMOh no you le didn’t. The Dreamcast is a work of art, plain and simple fact.
James Wood
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 2:19 PMcan’t wait for the fan noises on that one…
awesomeguy
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 5:05 PMi care how it looks, and it looks horrible
the current PS3 is very nice looking
Khuntza
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 7:31 PMThat ‘thing’ looks like its not as wide as the current PS3 but it looks deeper.. visualise a disc inside it..
If I had to bet on it Id say its simply an old, old prototype of what is now the top half of a PS3 shell..
In all the times Ive seen these photos posted Ive never seen any one with same thinking.. Am I alone here?
Kotaku.. where did these pics come from? has anyone checked the exif data?
Julian Taylor
Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 12:58 AMlooks kind of suspect.
bruce
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 11:03 PMPS3 is real. eat it
http://games.on.net/article/6697/Playstation_3_Slim_finally_confirmed