Gadgets: Sony PS3 Slim announced (From News Shopper)

Gadgets: Sony Playstation 3 Slim announced

10:16am Wednesday 19th August 2009 in Freetime By Colin Miller

During the Gamescon conference yesterday, Sony announced the release of the much rumoured PS3 Slim.

Quite possibly the worst kept secret of this year, Sony's current generation console, the Playstation 3 is going to have a bit of an overhaul.

Featuring a slimmer design, Sony are boasting that it will be 34% lighter, will draw 36% less power and will come with a 120GB hard drive. The new design measures at 290mm width by 65 mm height by 290 length.

SCEA's director of marketing John Koller, has quashed rumours of Playstation 2 backwards compatibility.

“Now that we're at a point where we're three years into the lifecycle of the PS3, there are so many PS3 disc-based games that are available that we think — and noticed this from our research — that most consumers that are purchasing the PS3 cite PS3 games as a primary [reason]”

"And it's not just like 50 or 60 percent. It's well into the 80 or 90 percentile range who are purchasing it for PS3 [games]. We do know that there are next gen consumers wanting to come over to the PS3. Most of those are consumers who have not utilized their PS2 for a little while and they're ready to jump into the PlayStation 3."

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