So at Gamecon, they just released news of the Slim which will release first week of September and go for 299. Going to try to find an official article. All PS3 models will see a price cut...
Looks nice though I'm still happy with my original PS3 (With BC) though it remains to be seen if this will have it.
Aside from the fact that I don't speak Italian, the PS3 Slim seems pretty cool. I'm content with my original PS3 though.
I'd get that version if I had the money. Heh, maybe by the time it comes out.
Wow. Half the price, less power consumption, double the hard-drive space and it actually looks pretty okay.
At least it means I wont be wanksting about not being able to play Kingdom Hearts 3 when it finally comes out. I may have to pick one up when I care enough about a non-MGS4 game on it to do so.
Wow. Half the price, less power consumption, double the hard-drive space and it actually looks pretty okay.
And Sony carries on with it's raping of Euroland =/
Amazon UK: £249.99
Amazon USA: $299
Amazon.FR: €299
Beautiful.... just beautiful... Along with the pspgo they really hate this side of the Atlantic. Also from what I've seen (somewhere) features like the installation of 3rd party os might've been removed (stops those pesky unis from just picking one up for data crunchings).
Also cheap HDDs are cheap.
I'll stick with £99 360 arcade with a 120GB drive for the time being.
I still think the price is a little too high for a slimmer version. :/
Explain.
Also the Elite is going down to 300, hooray! Just realized the PS3 will only be 50 dollars more than the PSPGo...opps.
Ah, this is what I've been waiting. Definitely going to be picking one up come September. PS2 BC would have been nice, but my ol' slim PS2 is still kicking so I've got nothing to complain about on that front. As I hear it, even with upscaling PS2 games look like ass on HDTVs. Also, I was never a fan of the shiny but bulky original PS3 model.
I still think the price is a little too high for a slimmer version. :/
Explain.
Also the Elite is going down to 300, hooray! Just realized the PS3 will only be 50 dollars more than the PSPGo...opps.
I'm Canadian, and for some strange reason $299 becomes $399 + tax over here, and I'm not willing to shell that much money, epically on a system that does not have any games that interest me so far.
Couldn't you just buy it from an American retailer?
Couldn't you just buy it from an American retailer?
Even if I was interested in that system (Which I am not), I would just wait till the price drops.
Looks sweet. Seen the vid of some gaming company taking it out of a box. Doesn't leave fingerprints and looked pretty light and had actual buttons! lol Pretty sweet, if I didn't have one already I would definitely got this lil guy, but since I do, I'm fine with my big ol clunker. 
The price drop is nice, but with the removable of the ability to install Linux and Sony not adding backwards compatibility back in, it is kind of meh for the time being.
Welp, I went to my local Gamestop and picked up a Slim, as I said I would. Going to be digging into all the features eventually, but for now I'm just going to fine-tune the settings and update the firmware (what-- no FW3.0 yet?). I picked up a few games while I was there: MGS4 (a given), Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (used only :< ) and, quite surprisingly, Valkyria Chronicles (didn't think they'd have it, only one new copy available in-store).
Not a bad haul.
