Penny Arcade on the PS3 slim

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Sardauk said:

Xoj said:

Sardauk said:

Rob6021 said:

It's been quite obvious Microsoft has a lot of 'friends' in the media biz, Cnet, Forbes, and now this.  You can expect to hear all good things about windows 7 when it launches this fall, especially from Cnet (we have haven't we so far.) 

When i loaded up Google news today,  The two stories representing the PS3 slim were one about how you should choose a blu-ray laptop over a ps3(HUH??), and another saying it was too little too late for sony.  None of the top stories actually gave a fair representation of what Sony presented or what the REAL NEWS STORY they were supposed to be covering was.  It was clear to me they had succeeded in dampening the excitement and media impact on the announcement.  For crying out loud Sony announced a $299 PS3 and a redesigned slim model, how is that a negative?  

Nobody says it is negative. But if you consider the past success of the playsation brand, nobody would have imagined that they would need to create a slim version, so early,to try to catch up.

Inevitably, this is conflicting with other trends on the market (see also the fight between the PSP and the iPhone).

early? slim version always come at the third or fourth year.

Really ?

Well, it seems maybe early to me due to the 10 years plan.

PSone released 6 years after it's Playstation launch in 1994. PS2 Slim Launched 4 years after PS2. PSP slim came 3 years after launch.

From the trend given the time between launch and slim is getting shorter. But "always" is far from truth, typically when things fall in a sales rut Sony releases the slim to stimulate sales again, much like Nintendo with it's colors.