First photos of the new PS3 model

Take a look at the first photos of the just-confirmed new PlayStation 3 model.

[Omar91]

im liking the new style. just wish it had a price drop

[Chitown71291]

Yea that wouldve been killer.....What the hell is Sony waiting on? People will be buying those things like crazy at that price

@Omar : Haha yup ! I feel ya dude.

[Omar91]

yea I mean they kind of dropped it there in my opinion. I just wanted them to drop the price so that my friend buys a ps3 lol. lets see what he says when he hears about this.

[pixelsword]

Sony hardly ever drops something until it's way too late to be something convenient; just like other price drops, this one will probably come after christmas.

[BattleAxe]

This was designed by Aliens.

[zeeshan]

Hmm... how do you insert the disc? Those pictures are on white background so a few details get lost in the contrast. Would love to see some sort of video or something.

Amazingly, they didn't drop the price! I was expecting to see a sub-$200 PS3 this TGS. Maybe around holidays we'll see some great bundle deals. There is indeed a "slim" chance for that :)

Edit: Found better pictures guys. Take a look...

http://www.engadget.com/201...

Looks like the disk slot will slide open. Also, in those pictures, it doesn't look that small WTF?

[mdkgod43]

@BattleAxe i agree with you dude, sony is the only company that can do this does anyone wonder why? because they use alien tech point blank

[darthv72]

the white one please. No need to gift wrap it, I will play it here.

I will say this though. To the collectors out there that like to buy up all the variants, sony has made it really hard to keep up with all the systems they release.

[inb4its2late]

I agree the new style is very sleek and nice in design. Shame no price drop though. But hey at least they added more HD space.

[kneon]

But it also appears that you can't upgrade the hard drive anymore. The wording of the announcement sort of implied this and now looking at the photos I don't see any access panel for the drive.

[IRetrouk]

They say you can use any 2.5" sata hardrive in the 12 gig one, but that you have to buy some sort of adaptor or you could buy the dedicated 250 gig drive Sony is bringing out, I'm gonna get a white 500 gig one for my bedroom

[kneon]

That's good to hear, they didn't make it clear that you could still upgrade the HDD and the fact that they are selling a separate HDD for the first time got me skeptical.

[WeskerChildReborned]

Same, something where most people will be able to afford it.

[BrunoM]

Damn I'm loving the look .. One thing I think all of us can agree be Xbox or Nintendo fans Sony does put out some sexy looking hardware ...

I like it .. If my ps3 ever dies (b4 a ps4 is given a date) I will for sure be picking one of these up

[BrunoM]

Lol I was wrong about us agreeing that Sony makes some sexy looking hardware (ps3s tvs bluerays etc) atlest from the disagrees looks that way ...

Well in any case I like the look of the new disine ..

And kool ps plus coming to vita on November

[SAE]

Maybe you got disagrees because they didnt like how you write ..

Or you didnt put a dot in the end of your talk ;)

[linkratos]

I disagree about their home consoles (other than this model), but the Vita looks amazing.

Although I did not disagree with your comment, just to be clear.

[BrunoM]

I have no problem with people disagree with what I said it would be nice tho if people would comment and make their point so it would be a discussion ..

But then again I been on n4g for many year don't Coment at all and don't know why I would be expecting actual debate/talk ...

Any who in my opinion looks good ..

Oo ya these twiter user on jun6 had already tweeted te new ps3 look @PsVGeneration

[SilentNegotiator]

So now that there are PICTURES of a slim and small ps3, I wonder if fanboys would still take a dump on me for saying that slim was disappointing because of how freaking wide it was, like they did 3 days ago.

[Kurt Russell]

I just wish they made a stackable version... I have the slim and because it has a curved top everything slides right off it! :D - Hardly a real problem I know, it just would have been nice.

[TheMrMadzen]

(500gb)

[showtimefolks]

i don't know why y'all think its time for a price drop but when both ps3 and xbox360 are still top selling consoles why would they drop the price?

500GB
a slimmer version

an instant win. I think if there is any price drop it will be at GDC for sony and E3 for MS.

Sony usually show few surprises at GDC or TGS

[andibandit]

Top selling, or just selling equally bad. Nintendo already showed that there is a much bigger potential market out there.

[DragonKnight]

@andibandit: Nintendo showed that people will follow celebrity endorsements and fads. Look at the state of the Wii's 3rd party support and core offerings. Look at the fact that the casual market is very fickle and the Wii fad will likely not be reproduced for a very long time. Casual gamers won't see the need to upgrade. Why would they if they have a console that still works and plays the games they already own? They'll simply migrate to facebook games and more cellphone games. Nintendo knows that the reliable money comes from the core market.

[Muffins1223]

omg i just sold my old ps3,perfect timing :D

[Bloodraid]

Eh, I'm not really digging it, personally.

I loved the design of the original PS3, and thought the slim looked alright (though I still prefer the fat). This design just looks terrible.

Hopefully the PS4 doesn't follow Sony's recent trend of making their consoles look uglier.

[auen1]

what they might do instead is drop the price on the current ps3 slim. after that inventory has cleared, they'll probably drop the price on this one.

[AO1JMM]

Prices are not low enough for me to justify upgrading to this from my currently broken (rlod)40gb fat ps3

[MobyRoyale]

I'm not sure if that's technically upgrading. That sounds more like replacing.

Don't misconstrue what I am saying though. I am not arguing your decision to do without a PS3. I am simply pointing it out my friend.

[SilentNegotiator]

It's both replacing and upgrading, Mr. Semantics.

[ExCest]

@^ It's uplacing! (or regrading, or placegrading, or gradeplacing. pick your poison)

[KwietStorm_BLM]

If you haven't upgraded from a 40 gig by now, I don't think anything would have convinced you.

[AO1JMM]

Keyword: broken, otherwise you are right I wouldnt buy another PS3 as it played blurays and games fine before RLOD struck.

[DragonKnight]

Ummm. YLOD? RLOD implies that it still works. You know, red light means it's in standby.

[LOL_WUT]

I don't think he ever had one! Ha

[Xof]

Nice! When's it coming? Is it the speculated flash-memory thing, or will it take a 500GB 2.5" SATA drive like the older models? North American release when?

This isn't idle curiosity: my PS3 went all YLOD-happy on me a couple of weeks ago and I've been -waiting- for news of this new model.

[NeotheGamer]

and the point of this is?

[DwightOwen]

To distract you from the fact that there are STILL no significant new games coming to Vita and that the PS4 is NOT coming for the 2nd straight year.

[MasterCornholio]

Oh wow so Assasins Creed Liberation isn't a significant new game. I would have mentioned Little Big Planet Vita but since it's out I guess it doesn't count. And Soul Sacrifice doesn't count either because it's only comming out in Japan.

Anyways doesnt seem like a more logical reason that Sony is releasing this new model to combat the Wii U?

XperiaRay

[NeotheGamer]

Maybe i could see a point if they lowered the price to around 199$ but as is, no one except morons will say "Hey, look at this! a new PS3 model..lets get this over the Wii U even though its the same price and 6 years older"

[Xenomorph]

Killzone vita, the last of us, disagree

[ExCest]

I think Persona 4 is significant, even for a remake.

[sikbeta]

@NeotheGamer

Duh, to selling at higher price? :/

They have completely lost it, 6 years after original release and the best idea they had was to actually Increase the price of the new model, as far as I can rememeber the last PS2 redesign was cheaper and not the other way around...

[CBaoth]

Sony will follow what MS has done the past two years. At Xmas, they'll put it on sale for $50 less. It's a strategy that's worked wonders for MS the past 2 Xmas, keep the price the same, but do a temporary price drop at the holidays. Remember last year's $99 Kinect? Sony did it on a smaller scale last year; 250gb PS3 with 2 games for $249 and we sold all 25 units in 2hrs.

[DaThreats]

Looks like the PS2 slim

[first1NFANTRY]

too bad i already got a phat launch ps3 otherwise i would have bought this new design.

[LongTimeNoSeeN4g]

What's up with Sony releasing new systems with horrible prices? Didn't they already cash big in 2006? jeeze!

[Monkeycan8]

I remember you and I disagree because you were/are a troll.

[Honky Kong]

LOL

[Monkeycan8]

I think it looks nice just the price ehh. :/

I already have The Fat ps3 and the Slim but I may still get this Ultra Slim one though.

[Honky Kong]

you might as well collect em all... right?

[Monkeycan8]

yea lol :P

[TheLyonKing]

1. Phat Design
2. Super Slim
3. Slim

the order how good looking each iteration is.

This is a day one purchase for me :D

[MadMen]

not digging, i like the current style

[Omnislash]

You know its almost the end of the gaming generation when sony busts out with their slim playstations...

Funny thing is that they are still selling PS2 slims lol

[bahabeast]

the ps3 is 250 how much lower do you want it????

[SAE]

They should have showed us the ps4 instead of this , but i know that sony will sell ps3 for more then 3 years , so its cheaper for them

[DwightOwen]

The PS4 isn't coming, not for another 3 years at least. Sony can't afford to lose money on the hardware it sells anymore, and that's how long it will be before Sony can sell a system that can play Samaritan and make a profit on it. They're going to milk the Vita and PS3 for all they can in the meantime.

[RedSoakedSponge]

tbh, im getting sick of companies making multiple versions of the same console unnecessarily. if they put that effort into making the new ps4 we might have it already! DX

[Rhythmattic]

Officially Announced the eve before TGS.. Bizarre... Why not on opening day?

[dazzrazz]

This looks like Atari 2600

[SkullBlade169]

Nah. The 2600 is more stylish.

[Dr Face Doctor]

That's tacky like someone found the case in a time capsule from the mid-90's and decided to cram the PS3's guts into it.

[LOOK_AT_THIS_I]

It has the look of an old school Rockford Fosgate car amp to me. Looking in the pics for the subwoofers. One sony product that was never up to standard was the xplod line of amps/subs. Lol.

My launch 60gb has been freezing a lot and nearing the end of its life. Using my slim now and have been waiting for this announcement hoping that maybe a 199 tag would make an appearance. Guess I will wait to see what the 12 gb model retails for here in the states and possibly will just add my 500gb hdd in that.

[PirateThom]

"owners of the 12GB model will be able to connect a 5 inch SATA internal hard drive with use of an official Mounting Bracket, or opt for purchase of an official PlayStation 250GB internal HDD"

http://blog.eu.playstation....

So, it's still able to use standard HDDs but needs an official mounting bracket?

Ugh, why was the current idea not just acceptable?

[auen1]

it looks like sony took a cue from microsoft...f'n bastards -_-

[AznGaara]

To be fair at least they're giving us an option of just buying any HDD we want. We'd just have to buy a mounting bracket. Those who are lazy or people who just lack information could just see the Ps3 branded HDDs and buy them.

[r21]

Looks neat but the middle part of the new ps3 looks kinda odd.

[SnakeCQC]

i hate you sony why so many models why not make the first one slim!!!!!!!!!

[ExCest]

If the first model is a slim, then what would it be called? A normal?

I'm kidding, it gets slim with new technology. You can't put what doesn't exist into a console.

[SnakeCQC]

i know but each new model makes me hate my fat model more and more

[mdkgod43]

Why dont north america never gets a white ps3 SMH @ Sony

[josephayal]

This Model Looks way better than PS3 SLIM

[JAM_brz]

I Liked it.

But its just me that liked more the 1st one PS3 model? Despite the size.

[ame22]

This late into the cycle and Sony are willing to push out a re-release could only mean that Sony are in no hurry to release a PS4, a 2014 release window at earliest sounds very plausible. On a side not, the thing is screaming "I'm sexy!", feel almost like they brought a 70's vibe to it with their design. Very sleek.

[Getowned]

I want a PS4 :[ I have enough PS3s.

It looks good though, If I ever need another I'll get one.

[shutUpAndTakeMyMoney]

So BF4 will suck for console owners..

http://www.engadget.com/201...

Since 64 bit uses 4+ gb ram even the wiiU will be behind since it sadly only have 1gb.

New ps3? meh. That's like apple showing a new ipad 1 with the same 2007 tech.

Just drop ps3 price and bring ps4 so newer games won't suck.

[mcgrottys]

you are kinda right but are wrong. 64 bit has support for 4+ GB of ram but does not need it. 64 Bit is an architecture for CPU's. A bit is either a 1 or a 0 (binary). the 32/64 bits for a CPU mean that they can process 32/64 bits at once. Imagine doubling the lanes on a highway.

Also I believe that the 64 bit requirement is just for PC's because some people are still on XP and Dice just don't want to have to optimize their game for both 32 and 64 bit architecture because its just a big pain.

I do have to say though I wouldn't be surprised if BF4 is nexgen only but the reasons wouldn't be just because of 64 bit because I believe that the 360 and PS3 do have some equivalent but I don't know much on the cell or PowerPC CPU's.

[mdkgod43]

are we gettin the white ps3?

[sly-Famous]

Damn thats sexy! Where does the disc go? tray or loader?

[tubers]

what's w/ the middle "grills". Looks more like cookware at certain angles.

[Master of Unlocking]

This design just looks really cheap

[Fel08]

Am I the only one that thinks that it looks ugly as hell?

Not that it matters, you can still play all the awesome games on it.

[mcgrottys]

I gotta say that my favorite design has to be the original. But that might just be kinda nostalgia.

One thing I do want in new consoles is more flipping color. I miss the wide array of different N64's and gamecubes you could get. But that was nintendo and i wouldn't expect sony to just randomly add color to their consoles. But its nice they added white.

[ShaunCameron]

The current slim model better. This one looks way too asymmetrical for my liking.

[TBONEJF]

NO FCKING WAY!!! TIME TO TRADE MY OLD 120GB PS3 SLIM for the THINNER SEXIER ONE! How much can they make it slimmer? I BE DAMN at least they kept it at one model this time. DAMN GOTTA LOVE SONY.

[KidCuDiWINS]

Haha, my ps3's graphics card got toasted and I was about to get another slim today. Can't wait for this one! I'll take the white!

[llMurcielagoll]

To be honest, I really like this model. Sony should of done it from the start when they introduced the first PS3 Slim!

It is a hell of a lot better than that old slim eye sore... Wish my 60GB ps3 was still here...

[byeldell34]

looks like a ATARI 7800

[IWentBrokeForGaming]

I think the white 1 just sold me on putting my 60 gig in its original box and putting it away safely since it still works, and now using this white one when it drops...

My girlfriend will also dig the sleekness of the white as well!

[taquito]

cool.

a new, cheaper looking, 80's cassete loading style, last gen console, announced like something cool and revolutionary as though anyone with a brain would give a fu@k!