Go To Latest Video ReviewsSony Ordering Slim PS3s for July Delivery?
| Author | Hugo Jobling |
| Published | 1st Jul 2009 |
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TrustedReviews NewslettersConceding, if you will, that the much-rumoured 'Slim' PS3 probably wasn't a fake after all, you might be interested to hear the latest word on the street is that Sony has put in orders ready for "the summer," when it's now suggested the redesigned console will launch.
Taiwanese site UDN reckons that Sony has signed production agreements with two manufacturers - Foxconn and Pegatron to be specific, both manufacturers of the current PS3 - to deliver Slim PS3's by July. That makes a certain sense; stock levels of the current PS3 are said to be running down and quite a few sources expect a price drop is coming in August when a July-delivered Slim PS3 could easily have been shipped out to retailers ready to launch en force. The summer is, of course, the perfect time for a console launch - what else does anyone have to do in the holidays but sit indoors playing video games? With the air conditioning on, obviously.
Clearly we're well into the realm of hearsay but the shear number of different sources claiming 'insider information' regarding an imminent redesigned, slimmer PlayStation 3 launch do suggest a favourable signal-to-noise ratio. I'm keeping my sceptical hat on, but I'm not going to be at all disappointed if this rumour does play out.
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smc8788 said on 1st July 2009
Me said on 1st July 2009
These things would be on the boat from China already for a July launch so a little more info would be known by now. Also Europe is always the last to get the updated product as the... more
Dan said on 2nd July 2009
@smc8788 - I'm with Chris on this. If its a living room media solution bluepork is after, surely the 360 is the overall winner.
Even my wife now casually flicks over to... more
YG said on 8th July 2009
Oi! I've just bought a PS3 to go with my 50" Pioneer - held out for since Jan in the hope of a slim PS3 - then gave up and too the plunge. And now 3 days after reciveing ... more
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