Sony PS3 components demand growing significantly

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makingmusic476 said:

tedsteriscool said:

pterodactyl said:

I really hate to break it to anyone getting excited over the slim PS3, but it'll probably be more expensive than the phat, which will probably retain its current price to pay for the slim's higher manufacturing costs.

Why do people keep saying the slim will have higher manufacturing costs? Aren't the slim models made of less material and have smaller components/dye sizes, making them cheaper to produce?

Basic logic would imply a higher price, looking at things like laptops vs dekstop PCs and whatnot.  It would be like cramming the ps3's internal architectue into something the size of the PSP.  Sure, it might be possible, but it would take a hell of a lot of R&D, and yield rates for whatever product they might come up with would be incrediblly low (just like initial yield rates on the 90nm Cells were low, hence Sony disabling the 8th SPU to increase the number of usable units).

With the ps3 Slim, however, they aren't trying to cram the ps3's components into an unnecessarily small space.  They're simply trimming the excess that remains from the original model.

Yeah, the motherboard went from rectangular to a rather square shape through its many revisions. The shape of the mobo now matches up quite well with the "leaked" pictures of the PS3 slim...hmmm.

 

Old motherboard (left) and new (right)

 

Leaked pic of PS3 Slim

 

They match up well, eh?