| Me said: The Ps3 is supply constrained and it beats me why Sony dont just roll out the 80GB Ww and create more demand. July will be interesting with the 80GB bundle arriving, after that E3 and the wii's production being upped to 2.4M per month. Ps3 long term sales will no doubt increase but all eyes on E3? |
my personall guess is that new SKUs with BC will come out worldwide with the next chip shrinks. if the shrinks are really going to happen in late summer then it does not make much sense to start producing new versions now which will be replaced with the next version in a few months.
ibm allready published that they shrinked cell to 45nm and got a 34% smaller chip with 40% less heat than the current 65nm, also there was also the rumors that the rsx got shrinked from 90nm to 65nm which should again result in die size reduction by at least a 3rd and probably compareable heat reduction.
with both chips shrinked they could probably also reduce mainboard size and reduce cooling which would make slimline models available and probably replace all current models.
