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Sony slims PlayStation 3 size and price
Stuart Kennedy and wires | August 19, 2009
SONY has taken the wraps off its long-rumoured slim version of the PlayStation 3 videogame console and slashed the price to attack the Christmas market.
Sony has unveiled a slimmed down version of its Playstation 3 which will hit local shores in early September.
The slimmed down PS3 will launch locally on September 3 at $499 which includes a larger 120GB hard drive replacing the old 80GB drive.
The new console will be around $200 less than the existing PS3.
A Sony spokeswoman said the price of existing PS3 units in the local channel would drop to $499 from August 24. “There’s very little existing stock in the channel, though," she said.
The slim PS3 is about two-thirds the size of existing models and uses less power but retains all the features of previous models, including the Blu-ray high-definition disk player. The new model will ship with a revamped, 3.0 version of the PS3 firmware which will be available for download onto previous models from September 1.
Since its launch in 2006, Sony’s PS3 has boasted processing power and rich graphics, but at a steeper price than Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii consoles.
Sony has since found the console wars to be bruising but is banking on its refreshed, lower-priced PS3 line and the release of blockbuster videogame titles to improve its fortunes in the crucial year-end holiday shopping season. The company reported a net loss of $US390 million for the fiscal first quarter through June, blaming the global economic downturn.
Sony has sold about 540,000 PS3s in Australia since the console debuted locally in March 2007.
As well as the new PS3, Sony Australia will launch video delivery service on the PS3 in the first quarter of 2010 following a rollout in Britain, Ireland, France, Germany and Spain in November.
Also coming is a Digital Reader Service for the handheld Sony PSP console which will begin with a library of comics and graphic novels launching in Australia in December. Text novels and non-fiction titles on the service may follow, the spokeswoman said.
To counter the downloadable games library on Nintendo’s new DSi handheld console, Sony will launch a line of cheap, downloadable games for the PSP over its online PlayStation store in October.
- with AFP
In photos: the new PS3 analyzed, Linux knocked out - Ars Technica
Sony slims PlayStation 3 size and price
Stuart Kennedy and wires | August 19, 2009
SONY has taken the wraps off its long-rumoured slim version of the PlayStation 3 videogame console and slashed the price to attack the Christmas market.
Sony has unveiled a slimmed down version of its Playstation 3 which will hit local shores in early September.
The slimmed down PS3 will launch locally on September 3 at $499 which includes a larger 120GB hard drive replacing the old 80GB drive.
The new console will be around $200 less than the existing PS3.
A Sony spokeswoman said the price of existing PS3 units in the local channel would drop to $499 from August 24. “There’s very little existing stock in the channel, though," she said.
The slim PS3 is about two-thirds the size of existing models and uses less power but retains all the features of previous models, including the Blu-ray high-definition disk player. The new model will ship with a revamped, 3.0 version of the PS3 firmware which will be available for download onto previous models from September 1.
Since its launch in 2006, Sony’s PS3 has boasted processing power and rich graphics, but at a steeper price than Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii consoles.
Sony has since found the console wars to be bruising but is banking on its refreshed, lower-priced PS3 line and the release of blockbuster videogame titles to improve its fortunes in the crucial year-end holiday shopping season. The company reported a net loss of $US390 million for the fiscal first quarter through June, blaming the global economic downturn.
Sony has sold about 540,000 PS3s in Australia since the console debuted locally in March 2007.
As well as the new PS3, Sony Australia will launch video delivery service on the PS3 in the first quarter of 2010 following a rollout in Britain, Ireland, France, Germany and Spain in November.
Also coming is a Digital Reader Service for the handheld Sony PSP console which will begin with a library of comics and graphic novels launching in Australia in December. Text novels and non-fiction titles on the service may follow, the spokeswoman said.
To counter the downloadable games library on Nintendo’s new DSi handheld console, Sony will launch a line of cheap, downloadable games for the PSP over its online PlayStation store in October.
- with AFP
I like the ps3 some of the quality of games coming out finally are great. Like wolfenstein tomoro 
, like Ian said, you get one on it's capabilities.
