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Sony PlayStation 3 Meets Slim Fast?

Posted by Matt Peckham | Friday, February 01, 2008 1:54 PM PT

So does the "T" in "T3" stand for Triple Tease or what? Treat this as the hearsay it almost certainly is, but gadget gossip T3 says it knows a guy (who probably knows a kid, who probably has it from a giant rabbit) who says Sony's working on a slimmer, sexier, sleeker PlayStation 3 for release in the...well, say "for release."

Why "slim"? Because they've done it to every other system they've ever released (PS1, PS2, PSP). Why not the PS3? reasons T3.

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Could this be the Jenny Craig edition PlayStation 3?

Sooner? Later? It's inevitable, with that much I'd agree, but the question is, will anyone care? And by care, I mean in the "buy because I wouldn't have otherwise" sense, as opposed to the "appreciate the cosmetic nip-and-tuck though I was planning to buy it anyway" angle.

Does your PS3 take up too much shelf space? Not fit somewhere you'd like it to at all? Would you be more inclined to buy a PS3 if they reduced the size (but not the price or thermal output)? Does "sexy" really sell more to anyone outside the diehard-est?

The only thing my PS3 could do better is run a little cooler and a little quieter, though to be fair, its fan on full sounds probably a fifth the decibel level of my blow-hosing Xbox 360.

Comments (3)

what a retarded concept haha, all they did was take a wii and attach it to a the top of the a PS3. sorry just had to say that because it looks like copyright infringment to me.

"The only thing my PS3 could do better is run a little cooler and a little quieter, though to be fair, its fan on full sounds probably a fifth the decibel level of my blow-hosing Xbox 360."

you are correct sir, the PS3 sucks. all the games they say are "so much more fantastic than the 360 games" are BS. i bought them just to find out, and i cant see anything that is graphically better than anything on the 360. in fact all of them are graphically WORSE and gameplay is horrible! not to mention that none of my friends have it, so any online play is very boring. it all goes to show how much everyone hates the PS3. if my friends who have every system on the planet DONT have a PS3, yeah it sucks slim aint got nothin' on shear power and gameplay

Yuffiek133
February 04, 2008
5:37 AM PT

Yuffie133 you don't have a PS3, you are just an XBOX fanboy

steveo73
February 05, 2008
2:47 PM PT

An XBOX fanboy with no knowledge of the many, many problems the 360 has. If I wanted a $400 dollar pile of crap, I would of purchased Vista.

rrrobinson1236
February 05, 2008
6:31 PM PT