How big of a difference would a Slim PS3 make?

[IllegalPaladin]

Max King of the Wild said:

Skeeuk said:

Max King of the Wild said:
skeeuk - the reason theyd shrink the casing would be to lower cost for materials. less plastic equals less money

 

well to make the consoles look uniformal they may aswell keep the size.

what they could do is move to lower grade plastic etc mabey with matt finish instead of shiney. other tweaks..........

• standard ejecting disk drive
• press buttons instead of touch
• take away needless lights
• external psu
• take away extra ports from the back
• removal of on-off switch on the back.
• no wifi

ie. have a basic entry model and keep a premium model as it is today, but with b/c reinstataed.

i dont think there are needless lights and some people dont want their consoles on standby all the time and the back button is theonly way off turning it off if the ps3 freezes. the standard disc eject and wifi are good ones though. (normal eject button would probablly be included with different disc loader) if they did that they could compete with the 360s price. id reccomend just changing the case too if they were going to save money on the finishing. why not pay less and get more with a base model.

Yea, I'm not really sure what needless lights there are.... Everything that lights up has a purpose, it's not like a PC case mod or just having LED's on all the fans.

Power/stand-by light, blu-ray disk drive light, hard drive indicator, and the ethernet port are important and have a purpose.