At first glance, I truly thought so. But after getting use to it, I think I like it a bit more than the launch PS3's aesthetics. That thing was just weird. I mean, it even shipped and was branded with Spiderman font for crying out loud! lol. And while Sony would never say such a thing publicly, the fact that the PS3 Slim reverted back to PS2's font and style is confirmation enough, imo, that they thought so too.