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Forums - Sony Discussion - When will the "PS3 Slim" come out?

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.



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brute on 27 January 2008

i think it will come out around 2009 but thats if they release a slim one,i think that they wont though but thats just my thought



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TheBigFatJ on 27 January 2008
wiifm said:
It's unlikely that the size of the Blu-Ray diode makes the PS3 look as-is ....



Exactly correct. The BD has nothing to do with the PS3's size -- it's all about heat dissipation. If you cram powerful CPU/GPUs into a small case with insufficient airflow, you'll have serious heat problems.

As the PS3 becomes relatively weak (compared to current technology) and the manufacturing processes for the chips/memory continue to shrink, Sony will have an opportunity to make it smaller. But that time isn't just around the corner.

Not likely in 2008.