Wednesday, September 19th 2012
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New Smaller And Lighter PlayStation 3 To Hit The Worldwide Market
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE) today announced that a new PlayStation 3 (PS3) computer entertainment system (body color: charcoal black / classic white), featuring a new design and a downsized form factor, will become available worldwide this holiday season. The new PS3 will come in 3 models including extended built in Hard Disk Drive (HDD) capacity of 500GB model and 250GB model, and a newly added 12GB flash memory model initially for Europe only.
Thanks to a complete redesign of the internal architecture, the volume and weight of the new PS3 has been reduced by more than half compared to the very first PS3 model with a 60GB HDD, and by 20% and 25% respectively compared to the current PS3. By adopting a sliding disk cover, the new PS3 continues with the characteristic sleek curved body design, which fits various places in the home and enables users to enjoy an array of entertainment content.With the extra HDD capacity which has been extended from 320GB and 160GB, users can store and enjoy more and more entertainment content including games, music, photos, and video on the new PS3. In addition, the new PS3 with 12GB flash memory offers opportunities to experience the world of PlayStation at an affordable price point. Users can also expand the storage capacity of the 12GB flash memory PS3 by connecting a dedicated HDD (250GB) to be released concurrently with the new model5. In addition, a variety of accessories will be introduced by SCE to meet various kinds of needs from users including a vertical stand that offers more flexibility in how the new PS3 can be displayed.
Since the launch of PS3 in November 2006, the number of BD-based titles has reached more than 3,300 titles and more than 4,100 downloadable PS3 games are available worldwide, thanks to support from a broad range of third party developers and publishers. In addition to this extensive software title line-up, exciting and attractive new titles are to be released from third party developers and publishers as well as SCE Worldwide Studios, including Assassin's Creed III (Ubisoft Entertainment.), Call of Duty Black Ops 2 (Activision Publishing, Inc.), Madden NFL 13 (Electronic Arts Inc.), PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, LittleBigPlanet Karting, God of War: Ascension (Sony Computer Entertainment), and more.
SCE will further accelerate the expansion of the PS3 platform which is in the 7th year of its lifecycle, by continually releasing a vast library of exciting and attractive software titles and offering users a choice from a variety of hardware models.
Thanks to a complete redesign of the internal architecture, the volume and weight of the new PS3 has been reduced by more than half compared to the very first PS3 model with a 60GB HDD, and by 20% and 25% respectively compared to the current PS3. By adopting a sliding disk cover, the new PS3 continues with the characteristic sleek curved body design, which fits various places in the home and enables users to enjoy an array of entertainment content.With the extra HDD capacity which has been extended from 320GB and 160GB, users can store and enjoy more and more entertainment content including games, music, photos, and video on the new PS3. In addition, the new PS3 with 12GB flash memory offers opportunities to experience the world of PlayStation at an affordable price point. Users can also expand the storage capacity of the 12GB flash memory PS3 by connecting a dedicated HDD (250GB) to be released concurrently with the new model5. In addition, a variety of accessories will be introduced by SCE to meet various kinds of needs from users including a vertical stand that offers more flexibility in how the new PS3 can be displayed.
Since the launch of PS3 in November 2006, the number of BD-based titles has reached more than 3,300 titles and more than 4,100 downloadable PS3 games are available worldwide, thanks to support from a broad range of third party developers and publishers. In addition to this extensive software title line-up, exciting and attractive new titles are to be released from third party developers and publishers as well as SCE Worldwide Studios, including Assassin's Creed III (Ubisoft Entertainment.), Call of Duty Black Ops 2 (Activision Publishing, Inc.), Madden NFL 13 (Electronic Arts Inc.), PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, LittleBigPlanet Karting, God of War: Ascension (Sony Computer Entertainment), and more.
SCE will further accelerate the expansion of the PS3 platform which is in the 7th year of its lifecycle, by continually releasing a vast library of exciting and attractive software titles and offering users a choice from a variety of hardware models.
52 Comments on New Smaller And Lighter PlayStation 3 To Hit The Worldwide Market
Time will tell. I think the days you and I enjoyed (Atari, NES, SUPER NES, N64, PS2, XBOX, XBOX 360) are over in terms of hardware improvement.
I hope I'm wrong.
PS3 Super Slim Unboxing - YouTube
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I was a console gamer until I tried pc.. Makes me sad people don't enjoy their games to the fullest.
It's like watching a movie in 480p, then watching it in 1080p..
Just no comparison..
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_hardware#List_of_revisions
PS3: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_hardware#Configurations
I wasn't implying that the console actually took 190w, but considering the XBOX 360 started with a 203w (now 115w) PSU and the PS3 started with a 380w (now 190w) PSU, who is the power winner here? Unless Sony really oversizes their PSUs which must cost a decent amount of money to do, it seems like the XBOX takes less based solely on power supply specifications.
PS3 has had a 40nm RSX and 45nm CBE for a while now, as well as XBOX 360 and its 45nm XCGPU.
Still though I gotta say... no N? I know its been mentioned. But I just realized the other day that the current slim model still only runs wireless G and I was surprised at that!
Lets see we can do 54Mbps peak wireless on a good day, if I line my outer walls in tin-foul and do a good luck dance or I can use a wire and get 1,000Mbps. Gigabit LAN and Wireless G sure go good together for contrast. They did on the original model back in 2006 and apparently they still do in 2012!
My WTF? is the Cooling? I mean it appears to have none that I can see. Mine has a behemoth of a cooler in it's and it certainly cooling it. Could prolly melt cheese on bread next to the vents when it's been going on for awhile.
I mean fine they have shrunk the process over time but it still has to be generating at least some significant amount of heat.
I remember playing LA Noire for a good session and had never heard my fans get that loud and was just waiting for it to YLOD on me from the strain.
I bought a slim PS2 when the PS3's were out. When the PS3's came out they were so expensive and there was no good games. I figured I'm going to get a cheap PS2 now so I can still play GT4! I thought it was awesome you could still buy new PS2's for under $200, and at the time the PS3 was like $500! Actually I think a lot of people still bought the slim PS2's at that time because PS2 games were still coming out. Once again it was just a cheap alternative for the non-hardcore console gamers. The Rock Band phenomenon didn't kick off until really late in the PS2's life too so that helped revamp PS2 sales after the slim model came out and into the PS3 era.
The PS3 is old. Six years old. But it was so slow to start out. No one bought them in the first year and it really didn't start to gain serious momentum until two years in. Really I might even guess 3 years in or around the time the slim PS3 came out is when it finally took off to the full extent. So I think Sony knows they have to push on with it for at least another year now.
Well on the official PS Forums there was a thread where they were mailing around a Memory Card Reader so you could dump your Memory Cards onto PS3(you get Virtual Memory Cards)
I signed up and it got mailed to me and I had been waiting to even start the game without my saves. I dumped my Memory Card(and my PS1 card as well) Well job done put in the post to the next user on the list.
Fired up GT4 all excited, went to the menu to load my GT3 saves....NADA, No saves found!:cry:
NTSC saves aren't compatible with PAL games. I was devastated. All the hours I put into GT3 trapped forever...:shadedshu