Omar914253d ago

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

Chitown712914253d ago (Edited 4253d ago )

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.

Omar914253d ago

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.

pixelsword4253d ago

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.

BattleAxe4253d ago

This was designed by Aliens.

zeeshan4253d ago (Edited 4253d ago )

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?

mdkgod434252d ago

@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

darthv724252d ago

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.

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inb4its2late4253d ago

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.

kneon4252d ago

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.

IRetrouk4252d ago (Edited 4252d ago )

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

kneon4252d ago

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.

WeskerChildReborned4253d ago

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

BrunoM4253d ago

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

BrunoM4253d ago

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

SAE4253d ago

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

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

linkratos4253d ago

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.

BrunoM4252d ago

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

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SilentNegotiator4253d ago

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 Russell4253d ago

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.

showtimefolks4253d ago

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

andibandit4253d ago

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

DragonKnight4252d ago

@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.

Muffins12234252d ago

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

Bloodraid4252d ago

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.

auen14252d ago

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.

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AO1JMM4253d ago (Edited 4253d ago )

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

MobyRoyale4253d ago

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.

SilentNegotiator4253d ago

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

ExCest4252d ago

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

KwietStorm_BLM4253d ago

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

AO1JMM4253d ago

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

DragonKnight4252d ago

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

LOL_WUT4252d ago

I don't think he ever had one! Ha

Xof4253d ago (Edited 4253d ago )

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.

DwightOwen4253d ago

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.

MasterCornholio4253d ago (Edited 4253d ago )

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

NeotheGamer4253d ago

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"

Xenomorph4252d ago

Killzone vita, the last of us, disagree

ExCest4252d ago

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

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sikbeta4252d ago

@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...

CBaoth4252d ago

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.

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XiNatsuDragnel2d ago

Microsoft had a good idea but fumbled it again.

Cacabunga1d 6h ago (Edited 1d 6h ago )

Project Spark idea was decent but they quickly gave up ..
LBP was wonderful

ApocalypseShadow2d ago

Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...

They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.

They're scum.

Zachmo1821d 5h ago

Microsoft didn't force MLB on Xbox. MLB gave Sony 2 options either go multiplat or risk losing the license.

Rynxie20h ago

And why do you think MLB said that? I believe Ms approached MLB.

ApocalypseShadow19h ago(Edited 19h ago)

Totally ridiculous comment.

The only exclusivity Sony had was to their own creation of The Show. Microsoft could have paid the MLB for the license just like Sony did and made their own baseball game.

Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox. They're worth 3 TRILLION dollars. You think that's not enough money to make their own baseball game? Don't be delusional.

Microsoft spun it like they always do and told the media that they had to trust Sony with their hardware. After they put Sony in that position of not having a choice. Either go multiplatform or stop making one of their successful games. That's a no win scenario.

And what did Microsoft do? They didn't try to sell the game to the Xbox community. They put it on game pass to hurt Sony. Pushing the idea of why buy games that are $70 when you can play them in their cheap service for $10. It was a dirty tactic.

You fell for the Kool aid drink Microsoft served you instead of spitting it out. Hope it tasted good because you were fooled by Phil and the gang.

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Hereandthere10h ago

Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

Bond revealed that MLB The Show “always came up” in conversations between Microsoft and the Major League Baseball organization. “We always said, ‘We love this game. It would be a huge opportunity to bring it to Xbox.'” she recalled. However, when Microsoft’s efforts materialized, it put the company in an awkward situation where it had to send in pre-release consoles to a rival company.

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Notellin16h ago

"Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox."

Take a nap, conspiracies are rotting your brain.

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Hereandthere10h ago

Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

Hereandthere10h ago

They were too cheap/inept/lazy to develop their own mlb game, so they port begged for years and bribed the mlb to make the show multiplatform. Like i said many times, xbox brought nothing to the table their 24 years, ZERO.

OtterX1d 8h ago

"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."

Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.

RNTody1d 8h ago (Edited 1d 8h ago )

Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.

But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?

Inverno1d 7h ago

Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.

Sheppard7t31d 5h ago

How did Sony kill the series?

Inverno1d 5h ago

They shut down the servers, that's millions of user created levels gone. That and dead are pretty much the same, it's also been years since 3 and they cancelled HUB soooo.

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fsfsxii16h ago

They shutdown the servers because no one was playing, no one in the community cared about the user created levels so why keep them up? Wtf you guys would never succeed in running a business.

Inverno14h ago

Yea dood no one was playing so they shut off the servers. Cause people with enough common sense can't just Google why they were actually shut of, right?

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