nightsurge on 13 May 2009
| Zkuq said: @Gilgamesh: And what do they say about those pricecuts, even if one would be coming tomorrow? I think a slim model could improve sales even alone, and then they might actually drop the price at the same time. But I guess you knew that already. @jonnhytesta: This year they've either cut the production costs or will do so; been know for a long time now. I believe they're going to be able to cut the costs next fall? Anyway, they started at 90 nm (I think, not sure) and this year's step is 45 nm so it'll be a big difference to the launch. Right now they're using 65 nm I think. I'd say it's about whether 45 nm (half of what it used to be) is enough for a slim model or if it needs to be reduced even more. Does anyone know more of this tech side; my knowledge, albeit I have solid basic knowledge, is pretty limited. |
Some of their chips are shrinking, but they will have to shrink the size of the blu-ray drive, the motherboard, rearrange things, shrink the cooling system, the hard drive location will need moved, the power supply will need to be external, etc.
I don't think you will be seeing a slim PS3 for at least another year.
If pricecuts are real, they are leaked weeks in advance. Same with the slim. We would have a leaked image or something by now if they were revealing slim models at E3.
