PS3 Slim Announced; Out in September

– August 18, 2009

Sony Playstation 3 New Model will Lack Linux Support, Original PS3 Gets Price Drop

The first major announcement out of this year’s GamesCom is Sony’s official unveiling of the Playstation 3′s little brother, the PS3 Slim.

The new model will stop spelling out Playstation 3 on the front, and will sport a 120 GB hard drive. Even so, it will be a third smaller and lighter than the Playstation 3. Sony will begin shipping the PS3 slim worldwide beginning the first week at September. It will cost $299 in the US, ¥29980 in Japan, and €299 in Europe.

One major feature lacking from the PS3 Slim is additional OS support. The PS3 Slim will no longer allow players to install Linux and the like on the console. However, the system will ship with version 3.0 of the console’s firmware.

Quickly on the heels of the news, retailers are dropping prices on the original PS3. According to Kotaku, Gamestop has already cut the price of the 80GB PS3 to $299, while the 160GB model has dropped to $399. Other retailers, if they haven’t already, should follow suit.

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Alan Davis

Posted August 18, 2009 at 5:11 PM

bout dsrn time sony step up with a price cut! ^_^ if only i had some moneyT-T

Treleus

Posted August 18, 2009 at 5:21 PM

Har har har! All that talk about not dropping the PS3′s price, and they go and pull this. Fine by me, I say, as long as they haven’t removed anything else from the slim version.

I supposed they meant their affirmation as a technicality. “We won’t lower the PS3′s price… but we’ll release a different version at half the price. BAM!”

I might even get it this year or the next. How ’bout that?

Skai Cyan

Posted August 18, 2009 at 8:26 PM

$300 huh, I might have to seriously consider getting a PS3 now.

TheOGB

Posted August 18, 2009 at 8:51 PM

I’m getting a PS3 Slim for Christmas.

I have absolutely no evidence to back that up but my dad’s been waiting forever for the price to go down one more time and that time has finally come.