Played_Out on 27 January 2008
| Parokki said: Historically only very succesful consoles (NES, SNES, PS1, PS2 etc) have gotten a remake, and I'm not sure if the PS3's sales are going to be high enough to warrant the expenses of designing, producing, and marketing a whole new model. New SKUs with more/less/different parts inside happens all the time, but different sized models are pretty rare. Then again, the PS3 has lots of expensive tech, and making a slim version might actually save money in the end. Feel free to tell me if I'm forgetting something here. |
That's not true. The Sega Master System & Megadrive both had redesigns and the PC Engine was released in several variations. Also, I think the PS3 is pretty much guaranteed to shift more units than the SNES, and probably the NES too. I don't see a PS3 slim coming anytime soon though.
@ zackblue
I understand your point about small parts costing more (like in laptops etc.) but that is generally not the case with console components. The smaller blu-ray lasers are cheaper to produce, and the smaller CPU/GPU chips will be cheaper too.
