March 31st 2008


New Playstation 3 this autumn?

Trawling the CES show last month, we happened across a rather juicy piece of gadget gossip.

According to a particularly well-informed insider, it seems that the Big S is prepping an all new PlayStation 3. The new incarnation is supposedly slimmer, lighter weight, and sexy as hell.

It's not as if Sony haven't got a history of making things slimmer and, er, lighter: The PSP shed a lot of its weight last summer, the original PlayStation ended up as the minuscule PSOne, and the PlayStation 2 re-incarnated as the PSTwo, which was an all-round sexier piece of kit to boot. Roll on PSThree?

Specs-wise, we're probably looking at the same machine with stacks of space and the trusty Blu-Ray player on board. The new PS3 is a proper looker: if it's anything like the illustration our team of designers have come up with, then we're looking at one hell of a sexy piece of kit.

We wouldn't be at all shocked if the much-touted 160GB PS3 is in fact this slimmed down puppy.

Sony has peddled their usual line of 'not commenting on rumours and speculation', but that is exactly what they said before they dropped the size zero edition of the PSP.

For now, that's all we have. But rest assured we'll be pounding the phones and keeping our ears pricked for any news as soon as we get it.



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It's interesting. Not sure if I like the length of it - was hoping it'd actually be smaller, not just thinner - I like compact pocket sized things. Because of the length of my DVD player it makes it hard to fit inside my tv unit so that's one of the issues I'm worried about.

The drive is in a completely different place, and half of it looks like a Wii.

I fixed that post slashy, if you just have a quote at the start ... it tends to screw up the main page.


And yeah, it does look very much like a Wii!

I think current PS3>slim PS3 whenever it comes out.

The originals are always better cause they're original. :D

But the original has already been changed! Unless you bought the first original :P
And yes, as everyone said it does look like a Wii. No doubt the designers couldn't think of anything better - like trying to improve their controllers

DS Lite > DS Phat

This is getting a little frustrating, I'm always waiting for the next model. I was planning on getting one in the nest few months, but if there is even the slightest chance of a slim version coming out then I'm almost forced into waiting, and seeing what happens.

Those are only mock images drawn up by T3, right?

Yeah it's only a mock up.
While Sony haven't announced anything official, it will happen eventually.

Don't get too excited guys, the pics are from t3, nothing official at all! What I heard is that Sony are actually resizing and re-manufacturing the processor to make it more affordable cos they're currently selling the console at a loss.
I don't think the outer cosmetics are gonna be changed until after some years have passed.