nightsurge on 01 August 2009
| Carl2291 said: Its a boost to the lifespan of PS3. Also, they wont have had the tech for a slimline version when PS3 released. |
This.
The cost reductions come from die shrinks, motherboard shrinks, pretty much all internals getting shrank and now the exterior (for the Slim). The shrinking only comes after a mature manufacturing process. In other words, it would have been a lot harder and taken them a lot longer to produce PS3's if they had wanted to start out with 45nm chips.
