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Slim PS3 ...good fake or...
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PuppetMaster
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I say TGS if not E3.
Loudninja said:
It's his speculation. Makes reasonable sense.
Anyway, if this is true, we'll see more leakage going forward, even if it's not to be announced at E3. One would expect a trademark filing, a FCC filing for a new PS3 model, and perhaps even a patent filing for the case design, and they may arrive before an official announcement.
Nothing so far on those fronts however..
gofreak said:It's his speculation. Makes reasonable sense.
Anyway, if this is true, we'll see more leakage going forward, even if it's not to be announced at E3. One would expect a trademark filing, a FCC filing for a new PS3 model, and perhaps even a patent filing for the case design, and they may arrive before an official announcement.
Nothing so far on those fronts however..
Oh ok, looks pretty much confirmed now anyways.
PuppetMaster
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gofreak said:It's his speculation. Makes reasonable sense.
Anyway, if this is true, we'll see more leakage going forward, even if it's not to be announced at E3. One would expect a trademark filing, a FCC filing for a new PS3 model, and perhaps even a patent filing for the case design, and they may arrive before an official announcement.
Nothing so far on those fronts however..
They changed the rules recently so that you can keep a FCC filing confidential till the release of the product because too many announcements were getting blown that way.
For trademarks they probably already had those logos registered from years back and just didn't use them till now.
carnon said:
:lol
By asking for the removal they only further corroborate it.
Thanks MainTek!
But can we be sure the commenter is actually someone from MainTek?
Evilore should let us know if he gets any contact from someone asking to take this thread down
PuppetMaster said:
The filing still gets published. Just without photos and such. But labels and IDs are often published, and that's usually enough to tell what the product is (even if you don't know what it looks like etc.)
For trademarks..Sony currently doesn't have any 'ps3' mark that matches this one. At least not with the US office.
pseudocaesar
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Yes. Now, set up a sales booth for them at E3.
Sony: Hey guys 299 Slim PS3.
Crowd: Omg.
MS: But... Full body waggle...
Crowd:Meh.
Sony: Hey guys 299 Slim PS3.
Crowd: Omg.
MS: But... Full body waggle...
Crowd:Meh.
RanoNL said:If it's fake, it's a really good fake
This looks way fake. The dimensions aren't at all in keeping with the one being leaked in the OP. The difference in width, for starters, is at least twice as large as it should be.
So whatever about the OP one..this looks to be a fake.
haowan said:
True, it would be a bit dumb not to contact them directly rather than publically in their comment system..
An explanation from the original board as to why that thread disappeared might help us out. But even then people could just be playing along now and building upon the rumour by making stuff up (including the mods/admins at that board), or presenting themselves as people (like, say, someone from Maintek).
I've just measured a (not terribly recent) 80W notebook power brick at 5.5x11x3cm. The actual PS3 PSU is probably smaller, even for the 110W+ models (only seen pics with no proper scale, so a grain of salt please). I just don't see how it's worth the trouble to externalise such a s small volume.PuppetMaster said:
This isn't as drastic a shrink as PStwo. This is more of a half-step. There's still a good bit of space there.
Thermally, if your PSU efficiency is ~85%, keeping the PSU in the same case adds 1/0.85~=18% of the thermal load to the system. If this figure is a big deal, you'd have to cool your PSU anyway if you externalized it, or risk high failure rates (hello, early Xbox 360 power bricks). Better keep it connected to the same cooling system you already have for the main device. One fan and one heatsink is better (cheaper, quieter, more reliable) than two fans and two heatsinks. You only lose by separating them.
If the 18% are not a big deal anymore (30W or thereabouts and below) ... well, your PSU block is probably tiny anyway at that point.
I think the far bigger reason for external power bricks, at least for a while, were certain regulations that mandated any device with exposed conductive metal parts would need to be properly grounded, so that a circuit breaker would trip on insulation failure before someone gets a chance to hurt themselves. You could avoid the requirement by keeping the "high" mains voltage out of the main device, in a separate brick encased all around in plastic with no visible metal parts.
Do keep in mind that if you add in-between steps, the sum complexity of the PSU increases. You can step down to 12V in an external brick, but for any part that can't operate on 12V, you need to step to different voltages again, so why spend the parts and space in the first place? The PS3 chips and memories need different "non-standard" "low" voltages to run, you need 5V for USB, probably 12V for the fan and possibly some other voltage for the optical drive.
This is no PC where certain specs have to be followed to maintain interoperability between mixed-and-matched parts. There is no enforced "border line" between "PSU" and "motherboard". They can do whatever to get the most efficient whole.
Fun thread, I'm not going to try to predict if it´s fake or not, too many pictures for that. I'm not sold on it yet, however, if this were true I think this would be reserved for TGS more than E3, at least that's what I feel.
If it's a fake, someone has made a ton of effort on fabricating this story.
If it's a fake, someone has made a ton of effort on fabricating this story.
Bojanglez
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It looks a bit cheap compared to the launch units, which is what happened when they shrunk the PSP. If they are real a will buy one just for my bedroom, PS3 rules for media playback.
I wish Sony introduced a cloud service for game saves so I could switch between rooms and auto-load the save associated with my PSN account.
I wish Sony introduced a cloud service for game saves so I could switch between rooms and auto-load the save associated with my PSN account.
Hey, that would be neat. A smaller case would be quite welcome. I still want BC back, but whatever. Not like I'm in a good enough economic situation to even consider a non-essential 200+€ purchase nowadays. Still, it'd be another point in PS3s favour.
Now if they actually made it less round and more stackable I'd be even more interested in it.
Now if they actually made it less round and more stackable I'd be even more interested in it.
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pseudocaesar
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DieH@rd said:
Well thats generally what happens after people are shown compelling(ish) evidence. Not that big a deal.
XxBigP123xX
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This looks cheap as fuck. Bring the shiny back
MrPing1000
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Isn't it extremely early for this? I guess the ps3 hasn't exactly followed the PS and PS2 formula so far.
Psychotext
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Very early.MrPing1000 said:
DieH@rd said:
I would have thought it were fake in the beginning, but thinking now, the evidence is very similar to how Sony has done things previously. PSP2K was announced 2.5 years after launch (December 05, E3 07), and PSP 3K was leaked a few weeks before E3 last year by *gasp* a Chinese website, complete with blurry-cam. I'd be seriously surprised if PSthree didn't get announced at E3, and released by the end of the year. I mean, Sony is expecting to sell 30% more consoles this year, it has to be for some reason.
Worm_Buffet
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Psychotext said:
It's ~3 years instead of ~4, for the PS2.
Sony are probably more eager this time around.
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