of course no, they have a stock to sell, no one will buy a fat version for the same price, they would have to cut the price and lose money on that.

if they have to do that better do it with a smaller stock.

the 23 million shipment from march 2009 should dry up already

This should confirm it's fake. Why would some random dude in the phillipines have access to these and be able to sell them when noone else in the world does ?

I can confirm that there is indeed a PS3 slim model. I can also confirm they have a street date of September 3rd at least in the United States. I work in retail and we received a shipment in today in fact I held them in my hands not four hours ago. They come in three packs wrapped in opaque black plastic. This might explain why you are not finding pictures online. The only reason I knew what I was holding was, because a corner panel of the plastic was ripped off. They are now in the stores caged lockup. Though I did leave the label facing outward. Hopefully on Wednesday when I return to work nothing will be blocking the package. If not I will sneak a picture. I couldn't tonight I was actually helping a manager lock them up.

Anyway I had thought this confirmed this morning.

I'm guessing this was from Divisoria (which has the city's largest amount of pirated electronic stuff but it's not exactly "underground" since everyone knows this place =P)...

All I can say is that my friends finally have a console and not just a PSP. 360, Wii, and DS are too expensive there (a Wii cost like 600 US dollars the last time I saw it)

It looks ugly as shit. I still think its fake but dunno maybe real I guess...

based on experience, I'd say it's 50-50 especially if it's in the Philippines 

besides, I want my friends to play games like Uncharted, LBP, etc. since all they have is a PSP...

I dont get the last sentence.........

But lulz on the first.

Because most original games/consoles usually costs a lot (Wii costs 600 Us dollars because of foreign taxes I believe), so we either play games on the PC, play pirated console games (except for Gameboy games...It's pirated but it's still full price >.>), or look for a rich kid =P

So far, Psp is the only current gen pirated console/handheld that's being distributed on the market

Hey, lets not forget, Asia always gets electronics like the PS3 before the rest of the world. It's kinda smart, test the crap on people who will buy anything new because it looks cool, and see how well it holds up.

1) Whats a card reader?
2) You can see the eject button