Rumor: Is This the PS3 Slim in a Kmart Flyer?

Gizmodo:

"A tipster has sent us some shakey-cam photos of what looks to be a 120GB PS3 Slim listed for $299.99 in a Kmart flyer that he says will go out "in a few weeks."

[ToastyMcNibbles]

hmmm now that looks like a real PS3 Slim...who knows though but if that is i definitely will consider buying a slim for 300 bones.. looks nice

[prabx]

Actually believable now =|

[locos85]

Wow I like the game prices in the Best Buy Ad. If True then I will pick up like 3 of them.

Also the PS3 says to have 4 usb ports and 160 gig HDD.

[Ghoul]

well ill be buying one on day1 of release thats for sure. Together with the new cheaper elite 360 ^^

[crazy-eyez-killah]

Someone get Greenberg some new knickers please.

Looks legit to me...

[lloyd_sr1]

The 360 is NOT cheaper. That's just some marketing blitz. They added more value to the already- being phased out $299.99 60GB models. Similar to when Sony phased out the 40GB and added the 80GB last year priced at the same MSRP.

I wouldn't call that a price cut.

[kalel114]

Is the same picture that was used in the BB ad and that pic was created by a NeoGaf poster. Let's face it, we will not know what is real and what is fake until the 18th.

[anh_duong]

universal law:

rumoured photos of the ps3 slim must all be taken by stevie wonder using a 0.1 megapixel pinhole camera..

why are these photos so damn blurry...

[MTEC8]

if true, I will be picking my second PS3 this year.

[gaffyh]

This one, just like the Best Buy one, is using a render from Neogaf. I swear that guys should sue these companies if they use this picture in their official advertisements.

[cl63AMG]

I'm still surprised the price cut was $100. I thought it was only going to be $50. That makes the slim officially a steal. Does anyone know if the PS logo lights up? And I can't read it but are all those ps3 games on the BB flyer for $9.99 after rebate or what?

[shingo]

i know the person who created this lol. a very good fake indeed.

[JoySticksFTW]

Seriously... This - if true - is what a lot of HD gen console hold-outs and XBox 360 GAMERS have been waiting for.

As soon as the slim news starts to get a little more real, MS drops their price in retaliation. I just got my 360 a month ago to become a dual console owner and it's great, so I hope more people take advantage of these price cuts.

Man, what a great time to be a gamer!! :D

[SnuggleBandit]

i thought k mart was out of business. i haven't seen one in ages

[Blasphemy]

Why do they keep posting fake mock ups?

[The Great Melon]

@z-hayden

I think K-mart closed most of its stores in the south when it was doing badly 5+ years ago. I sort of wish it was here now considering that Circuit City and CompUSA have been essentially killed off. Luckily I still can rely FRY's to come through with good deals.

[solidt12]

yeah that looks official and looks pretty good. I will be getting another one this fall. I hope it has Wi-Fi, my old 20 gig does not.

[Pika-pie]

Gotta love the shakey cam pics... Always with the shakey cam hehe

[DaTruth]

I will pick up a slim, just to put less wear and tear on my 60 gig. Might keep that baby in a glass case.j/k

But seriously, I want to divide the time between them 80-20 in favor of the slim. One of them cost me twice as much as the other.

[TheHater]

now all we need is a target and walmart ad :)

[Natsu X FairyTail]

Only a Few days left untill we know if Every single News related to a PS3 Price cut / Slim were actually True.

I hope they are because WE WON'T ever have to see other PS3 Slim on the way / Ps3 Price cut? Articles!!!

+

I'd like to see a new model for the ps3 and get a new one again.

I'd like to see the PS3 sales boost so it gets more games.

The Sales boost that will arrive will push Microsoft into getting more games to.

So in short words.

PS3 slim + Price cut = PS3 sale +++ = exclusives Games +++ = People happy X Microsoft Forced into Price cut = Microsoft getting exclusive games+++ = Me Happy and maybe a few other guys.

[ULTIMATE_REVENGE]

Your logic is totally wrong.

[lh_swe]

That would be the biggest kick in the balls since the Yakuza 3 fiasco, ok.. it would be a lot bigger.

But your equation is probably a very good prediction of what is going to happen, except can MS afford another price cut, only time will tell I suppose and isnt 199 already low enough will the addition of a hard drive to the 199 model really mean that big of a change in sales?

I think the issue that MS needs to face with the 360 is assuring consumer that future 360 models wont be hampered with RRODs, cheap jet engine sounding fans, and the assurance that they wont push developers like Epic Games to realease ahead of shedule resulting in games like Gears 2 being riddled with bugs. If they get that sorted then I think its smooth sailing, likewise if the PS3 gets a price cut and a Slim.

[Natsu X FairyTail]

how is my logic wrong?

If the Price cut and the slim boost PS3 sales and makes Devs start to make more games on the PS3 this will force Microsoft into pushing devs into making more games for the X360 also.

Everybody Wins here.

[MetalGearBear]

natu X failedtail is jealous of PS3 slim.
I will buy 10 PS3 slim.

[Natsu X FairyTail]

@ Deafphat

How am I jealous?

I want to Slim to be real because I'd like to own one.

You guys think Because I always curse and diss all the Ps3 fanboys on N4G mean I hate Sony?????

Hell no! I hate you guys here on n4g Not sony .

I Still got my PSP X PS2 X PSone On Deck and PS3 from time to time but I might buy one for good this time.

jealous eff outt hea

[lh_swe]

And how do you deduce that? I would say quite the opposite, besides the Slim will be a good thing for Sony and gaming in general no matter how much you deny it, it wont matter.

Increased sales = More money = More games. How does this logic surpass you?

@ULTIMATE_REVENGE- how so?

[lloyd_sr1]

No need to hate on Natsu. He's not coming in this article saying he's not going to buy one, or some other useless jargon.

[Nineball2112]

It's going to be interesting to see some of the regulars on here who have bashed the PS3 and PS3 loyalists time and time again suddenly have a "death row" conversion and start talking about getting the Slim.

Will they get a free pass for their past transgressions or will they be called out on it? ;-)

Ahh... good times not too far ahead!

[Natsu X FairyTail]

Like I said in back in the days . I've owned PS3's many times in the Past. Owning a Slim Model wont change The way I will comment or act on N4G.

[ukilnme]

I don't feel a free pass will be asked or given. Who would need it anyway? I have owned a PS3 for almost two years now. I have never changed my opinion of the PS3 and the PS3 loyalist. I'll sum it up again. I love my PS3 but I can't stand the PS3 loyalist. They are the worst bunch on this site.

[DaTruth]

Your avatar makes it feel like you're yelling at me, no matter what you type; Lol! It probably puts people on the defensive a lot.

Not much you can do though, I don't know much about anime, but I'm guessing you'd have to change your name to change your avatar.

@Ukilnme: That is because you worship your 360, so anybody who says anything bad about your "precious", will earn your disdain. You don't care what people say about PS3 cause you just like it.

[ElementX]

These stories are ridiculous. Enough with the slim already!

*EDIT*
I believe the slim is coming out. I dunno about the $299 price, however we don't need pictures from every gaming site, store ad, and blog.

[Chris399]

And yes, enough with the rumors already. Till I see an in-store box shot of them sitting in a retailer's inventory or hear Sony say something, this is about as credible as bigfoot. Wait, there's a moniker I saw today, somewhere: Slimfoot.

[Nineball2112]

Sure we do! We need as many pictures as we can find... Why? Because it's major news and LOTS of ppl are interested in the topic.

The more, the merrier.

[ElementX]

I, for one, have seen enough blurry images of the "slim". This day in age cameras have auto-focus, even cell phones for crying out loud.. What's with all the blurry pictures? There's no excuse!

[Nineball2112]

I think you know why the images are blurry... ;-)

My theory is that it's probably done on purpose because it's bogus and they don't want ppl to see that.

[DaTruth]

Hey, at least Slim news is actually "news for gamers". It's a welcome change from the usual "Fodder for Fanboys"!

[ULTIMATE_REVENGE]

The PS3 launched with a 60GB & 20GB models but now the Slim PS3 will be launching it and added 100GB, in other words the launch 60GB has become 160GB and the 20GB has become 120GB.

This seems like the right thing to do.

[prabx]

But wasnt the Best Buy ad 160GB PS3 Slim for $299.99 too?

[lloyd_sr1]

There will be two PS3 "slim" SKUs. 120GB at $299.99, and a 250GB at $399.99. There's some evidence floating around that proves this, but still just rumors for now. No more PS3 fats.

[Fencefry]

Why would they both sell at the same price point? And 40GB is a tiny difference when compared to 120GB/160GB. A 60GB was 3x bigger than a 20GB, but now the increase would be .3x bigger :p

@prabx the bestbuy ad was fake, pretty sure the kmart is too
@lloyd I doubt it. Only an idiot would pay $100 more for 100GB more. You can buy your own hard drive for much cheaper.

[lloyd_sr1]

Yeah. Try explaining that to the some 23mil+ PS3 users...

[TheMART]

Well it could be real, but its also an easy photoshop job. So who knows... After the 18th we'll know. Just 5 days to go...

[saint_john_paul_ii]

so does that mean you're going to buy one? LMAO the irony...

[silverchode]

he already owns a ps3.

[skeletonss]

that already HAVE a ps3 are going to buy another one just cause theres a hundred off or whatever it MAY be? i know i wont. mines just fine.

[prabx]

I defo will.

[ElementX]

One PS3 is enough. You could buy quite a few games for the cost of another.

[Lou-Cipher]

I wouldn't replace my old PS3 for a new slim, but I do plan on buying a second PS3 for my bedroom.

[ToastyMcNibbles]

i think i will buy one... it looks nice and there are benefits to having a slim model... im not a hardware dude but i figure with a slim ps3 it wont have to work as hard as the normal model meaning it'll be more quiet and wont give off as much heat

[lh_swe]

More sales = more money = better games, but I have been considering it tho.

[Admiral_Benson]

Not straight away as there's too many good games coming in the next few months that i want to buy but def after christmas sometime!

My current BC 60gig will be my games workhorse and i will pick up a slim at some point for the front room.

It's a good time to be a gamer!

[koehler83]

I hope Sony maintains their Canadian parity and launches in Canada at CDN $299.99 as well. A couple friends of mine will be very pleased if that is the case.

[eyeh]

...the picture's blurry.

Suddenly when there's a breaking piece of news everyone forgets how to focus their cameras.

Just like those people who claim "I got my copy of XXXX 5 days early! It's AWESOME. Here's a pic, but sorry my camera's not good..."

Who actually falls for these?

[Natsu X FairyTail]

I know right?

how hard is to take a picture with a camera or to FILM the actual thing when you have it in Hands?(the guy in Phillipines)

People are so dumb.

[koehler83]

Could just be a cellphone pic, or more specifically an iPhone pic. Have you ever tried taking a pic with an iPhone? It doesn't turn out well.

[prabx]

If this "flyer" is real, the person must still have it, and should scan it or take a high-res picture...not hard.

[koehler83]

Not necessarily. It may have been shot off a colour proof or copy check at the printer. It may not have been distributed yet. You can't just go scanning your customers jobs and distribute them online as a printer. That's a good way to end up in court.

[boxedup]

If these stores are actually getting fliers ready, it would have to be coming out very soon - and Sony still hasn't said word one. Keeping a price cut secret is one thing, but a whole new model?

It seems to me you have to really want this to be true to believe it. It says a lot that people buying into this obvious fake are the same people willing to throw away their money to get a second PS3 just because it looks different.

[Avenged Sevenfold]

No denying it's real. I believed it the second those images from the Middle east appeared. I also believed Sev right from the start. Congratulations to all the idiots who were talking sh*t. All but confirmed.

[psthreee]

this one looks sexy

[Gue1]

With the PS3 slim mock-up from neogaf? Oh god... ;_;

http://www.neogaf.com/forum...

[trancefreak]

Unless the mock up was true to the bone reingineered photoshop or it was a real leak pic, or the guy @ guy neogaf is just scary crazy psychic lol.

But I call fake on these ads until it rolls from king kaz mouth that its real.

[RockmanII7]

It would be funny if the guy who made that picture works at Sony and we had a picture of a PS3 Slim all along.

[iown-ipwn-ikill]

looks nice

[Amir51]

Every time a picture like this pops up, it always sems to be just a smigen off the full picture lol

Have all the high quality cameras in the world been replaced with low quality ones which cant take photos at any angle close to 90 degrees?

[deadgoathy]

Enough is enough!... i had it with these motherf*cking ps3 slims on this motherf*cking plane.

[prabx]

LMAO bubbles =)

[Alcon Caper]

This viral marketing full of rumors and fuzzy photos of advertisements is just an awful way of trying to foster hype. Just awful.

What kind of bombshell can affect someone who has suffered these speculations for nearly a year.

It's frustrating.

If this is the real price, I will definitely pick up a PS3. Just gimme some certainty so I can start setting some cash aside.

[Droid Control]

Make it look like a nice slim blu-ray player, not a round toy!

[ULTIMATE_REVENGE]

Natsus logic fails because if the 360 gets cheaper then MS wont be earning anything with every 360 sold so it'll end up being ditched like the XBOX1

[Godmars290]

Kmart is still around?

[Captain Tuttle]

It's the GAF photoshop.

[sajj316]

Agree ... the placement of the controller gives it away. It looks too much like the GAF photoshop. Also .. 120 versus 160. Unless therre are 2 SKUS at the same price?

[Captain Tuttle]

And here's the post from GAF that proves it.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum...

[mobius387]

i say fake, not the ps3 slim but this pic.

[inFAMOUS_KRATOS]

will this replace my 60g baby? see if they brought bk background compatibility

[inFAMOUS_KRATOS]

can you do that with yourr xbox??????

! ßét nöt

[Natsu X FairyTail]

nice seeing you talk about the subject "Rumor: Is This the PS3 Slim in a Kmart Flyer?" / sarcasm

[TheMART]

The way that text is build up

"can you do that with yourr xbox??????

! ßét nöt "

I rather do not.

Besides that, its not conveniënt to do these things on the PS3. The browser rejects many sites (can you approve and submit stories with your PS3 browser on N4G?) and it makes a surfing experience like on the laptop worse. So no, thanks. I am glad I don't have a webbrowser on my 360. I have my laptop for that.

It plays games great though, 98% of all multiplatform games run and look better then on the Playbrowser 3.

[saint_john_paul_ii]

he rather does not, but he rather uses facebook and twitter on the 360 and write some text there HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Jamaicangmr]

iNFAMOUS_KRATOS your off topic, lets not side track the article buddy.

@ Mart
"I am glad I don't have a webbrowser on my 360."
How could you be happy to not have an option at your disposal? It's an option just like being able to play DVD's on the Xbox360 many wont use it over their standalone but i wouldn't say am glad if it wasn't there. It adds value and makes the console more versatile.

Just sounds like the fox calling the grape sour because he can't get it.

[RockmanII7]

I can touch my 360 with one hand and my PC with my other their that close together, and it's easier to type with a keyboard.

[zack61]

If that's real i'm buying it :)

[Lionsguard]

Its like taking a picture of bigfoot, its an urban myth.

[Lumbo]

I am sick of these fake blurry "photos", why can't people simply WAIT for the official announcement.

[sajj316]

LMAO ...

http://www.neogaf.com/forum...

Step-by-Step on how to get the internet up in a storm :)

[Captain Tuttle]

Beaten by 4 minutes!

[sajj316]

:)

I was literally refreshing that thread on GAF to see if they pick it apart. Little did I know .. it was chubigans!!!

[Quadrix]

This...has to be the greatest deal I've ever seen.

[wotta]

So many people falling for these obvious fakes.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum...

[-Mezzo-]

FAKE.

[blackmamba707]

dont' have brain

Fact.

[-Mezzo-]

I would love this to be true, but this is FAKE.,

[bubb13gum Easy]

We see fliers like this...its soooo true. If you got a Ps3 why would you buy this tho???

[Grandreaper9999]

Holy crap. With all this PS3 news and speculation, people must really want a PS3 post-pricedrop..

[Temp89]

"Hi, this is Gizmondo, of course we personally don't believe this flier is true, but we're going to post it anyway because it'll give us hits!"

It'd be like if the NY Times put "Jeff Goldblum is dead" on their front page, and then on the inside cover article wrote how sources say Jeff is dead, but the NYT doesn't believe them but decided to publish it anyway.

[boxedup]

Except that the New York Times is a credible new source. Gizmodo is just some website. I'm not sure why people seem to think the two have anything in common. The ability to type doesn't make someone a journalist.

[mirroredderorrim]

Looks slick.

[themyk]

i'm gonna say i think this is real. this is how a lot of stuff gets leaked. through flyers. and we all know it's coming so why not.

[Saaking]

eh, looks fake. I'm just waiting for the 18th, if nothing is announced then the rumors will shift to PS3 Slim @ TGS.

[feejo]

Might not before near Christmas so.

[skottey]

The real story here is that Kmart still exists. I didn't know that. Good for them I guess.

[biggsftw]

Just by the way the colors dim, like watching a screen from the side. Though this would make sense too though considering the ads are probably still on the computers.

[Dellis]

LOL Neo Gaf is sabotaging the PS3, one fake pic at a time.

[Dellis]

If you don't get it, this is a fake pic made by a Gaffer along with the Best Buy one, they are all fake.

People are having fun with the PS3 slim rumor, trying to get sites to
fall for fake pics.

I am beginning to think PS3 Slim was one huge joke and Neo Gaf members are behind it all.

Next week Sony will not reveal a PS3 Slim at all, then they will blame the alternative media for blowing a rumor out of context.

They will then say "We have an announcement, PS3 is now 299.99"

[Captain Tuttle]

A conspiracy by GAF? Now THAT would be one for the ages!

[Tunerboy8732]

and if theres no catch to that $10 ps3 game deal i'll be picking up a few of those.I know for sure I wont be buying that slim ps3 because I already have a ps3 with a 500gb hdd installed to boot.

[Mo0eY]

Sigh, this is so bogus. I submitted this last night and got a failed approval within 5 minutes of posting. There went a potential contribution rank up, a lot of points, and a lot of controversy (as seen above).

If N4G becomes the new digg, I'm gone.

[lamont8605]

the best buy ad isnt real!!!! i work for best buy and went to stop by my work and typed in the upc thats on the ad and nothing came up...thats probably a photoshop idk bout the walmart one...why cant sony just come out and say its real!!!!! nerve wackin lol

[sdm123]

dont get excited in till the REAL news hits the streets !@!!

[xlx-russ_92]

this flyer was photoshopped by Neogaf user.

[genesis013185]

Am I the only one who saw backwards compatability in the Best Buy ad. God I hope there talking about the PS2.

[M3rkMast3r]

It is a Fake Ad.

Source: http://www.neogaf.com/forum...

[Trevorthenerd]

$299? thats the same price as the new elite right?

[ShadowCK]

Another rumor. PlayStation Loons are desperate.

[equax]

Nice,I would like to pick one up!

[JJFNIGHTS80]

I work at a Wal-Mart store in Electronics Dept. If I ever see the ad I'll post it up in here.