PS3 Slim + Price Cuts!? (Aug 18)

[MoogleAura]

According to some leaked paper work from Japan -- the land of robots and advanced video game systems -- Sony is phasing the 80GB PS3 out really soon. The leaked retail memo requested that promotional materials for the 80GB model to be taken down, and that all final orders for 80GB models must be placed before August 9th.

Now why would Sony kill the 80GB PS3?

To replace it with the rumored PS3 Slim, it seems.

The new slimmer model is expected to have an 80GB HD. Last week, a listing for the Slim appeared (than vanished fairly quickly) on Germany's Amazon website. And back in May, pictures of the box surfaced online, and some sites posting those images have been served with Cease and Desist notices -- which are always a dead give-away that the images are actually worth mentioning, and not just fakes.

While tons of gaming fans have been looking for a price cut on the PS3, it seems that a wave of them are just about to crest. $50 USD has fallen from the price tag of an Amazon PS3 bundle, and website RTLinfo reports that retailers have told to expect a whopping 100 euro price soon, and that the new Sony Slim will be announced at the gamescon games Expo in Colonge, Germany, on August 18th.

http://i.neoseeker.com/n/7/slim.jpg

Source ~ PlayStation 3 Slim rumored to debut August 18 - Neoseeker News Article

The picture really shows how much more slim the new PS3 is going to be...¬_¬

[Lbelle]

Nice! I was considering whether to buy a PS3 or an Xbox360 last week and opted for a 360 since the only game I really wanted for ps3 was Last Guardian which won't come out til late next year probably. The price drop is great news, and I would love to have a PS3 slim though when I finally get the system over the clunky PS3 now. I love my PS2 slim .

[BRP]

Recently Sony was able to make a huge cut to the manufacture cost of the PS3. So even if this "PS3 slim" is untrue, price cut is going to happen soon.


EDIT:

SOURCE!

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/new...hp?story=24659

[Gokulo]

Nice Now to decide what I'd like to get for a birthday present more...
Wanted to get Windows 7 but if this thing is true... damn, 100 euro? But a downside, I don't own a half decent TV to plug PS3 in, sporting only a couple of old CRTs at home I could use my nice 21' PC Monitor, but then... then... Ya not really :/

[Rydir]

Same box?
http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/...ws/2crueis.jpg

[Scythiroth]

I just wanted a price cut before FF13 came out, looks like that will be coming true way before it even mattered to me.

[AoE]

Wow I JUST ordered a PS3 off Amazon no shit less than an hour ago .-.;

[Kiarax]

New slim model, same hideous look.

[Mizango]

Wow I JUST ordered a PS3 off Amazon no shit less than an hour ago .-.;

QQ

[Tekki]

I approve

[Kurokikaze]

Hell yeah! Time to get that PS3. :D

[AoE]

QQ

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...s/fffffsig.png

[Hitoshura]

So do you guys think they are going to cut it to $299 or $349? If they really have 120GB HD's I am guessing the latter.

Also with that news in the background of Sony patenting something to do with PS2 software, I hope all this leads to something awesome.

[Kurokikaze]

PSN download for a PS2 emulator for everyone that got a PS3 w/o backwards compatibility! Naaaaah.

August 18 can't arrive any faster. Needs moar sauce. ><;;

[Kaisha]

Same box?
http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/...ws/2crueis.jpg

If I didn't own a PS3, I'd have bought the original model still because it looks an asston better than that. That looks worse than the 360 and its flat-plastic look, and that's saying something.

[Hitoshura]

Um why are people so shocked? It's not like the slims tend to look stylish, look at the PSone, PStwo design was decent when it first came out but now it looks too damn plain.

[Palom]

Fuck the PS3 slim. It's all about the Hannah Montana PSP.

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...FF/omgsuck.jpg

"Hey Jim, you know anything about teenage girls?"
"No, but my daughter hates me."
"Excellent, you head up this ad campaign."

[Jefe]

If that's an actual system, it looks hella cheap

*hugz original 60 gig PS3*

[Maguspk]

Sweet, maybe a PS3 will be in my future, especially the slim, that'd be so nice because I don't think a PS3 will fit where my PS2 resides at the moment.

[Mayareira]

Looks pretty awesome. Won't be changing my fatty though since unlike fail360, it doesn't implode/RROD every single fucking year.