It seems the
people at Sony have failed to understand all the reviews that said that the
price of the PS3 is supposed to be a lot smaller.
According to the dark
satanic rumour mill, they seem to have misheard the word smaller price and
come up with a smaller console. Well these things often lose meaning in the
translation. A deep throat told Ars Technica that the slimmed-down PS3
will appear in August or September. Engadget came into possession of
supposedly leaked pictures of a smaller PS3 a few weeks ago but the concept
seemed rather unlikely.
Recently however the sites than ran the picture
received a cease and desist letter from a Chinese company saying that
pictures contained "confidential information." Unlike then hacks were happy
to think that the pictures were a fake, so which ever Chinese company
thought that threatening the press would make the story go away scored an
own goal by confirming that something was up.
Now that the project
has been confirmed by a deep throat, with actual dates it seems that really
is happening. Don't expect any announcements at the moment. Sony is
hoping that punters will buy the older gear that is sitting gathering dust
on the shelves before it releases the new stuff. As Ars says why tell
customers that new hardware is coming when you're trying to clear the retail
channel of your older model.
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