| nightsurge said: 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.
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BD drive? I don't know if it's that huge... But I doubt it's really that big. I mean, compared to DVD drives? Motherboard apparently has shrunk already, and probably will even more. Judging by the pic someone posted here, it could be pretty close, and with new technology, it will shrink even more. Maybe the 40GB model isn't just small enough but the situation is probably improving even now. Rearranging won't be a problem. 45 nm will not require that big cooling, it produces less heat. HDD location is probably easy to move if it's possible, and if it's needed (I've never looked into a PS3 myself). External PSU won't be a problem, why would it?
Leaks a month before, and about a model that's probably not getting on the market by E3 and at earliest some time after it - maybe even as late as fall, if it's happening this year.
And just to make it clear, I'm not implying a new model is likely. I'm only saying it could be possible.
Anyway, does someone actually doubt a new model's usefulness to Sony? It would certainly increase sales even by itself, and in case of no pricecut, it would increase profit/make losses smaller, while in case of a pricecut, it would increase sales even more. You know, like new colors but with the added benefit of reduced production costs?
