If what they say about the PS3 Slim is true..

[darkhaven63]

nightsurge said:

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.

So if they would've started out making the slim, then not only would it be time consuming, but it would have a shorter life span? But with the original PS3 models, it would have a longer life span. So here's another question, how many people do you think are going to buy the Slim?