I'm just wondering why there are predictions by several people along the lines of "Slimline PS3 in 09" or "Sony will announce slimline PS3 at E3 this year".
For the original Playstation the PSOne came out well over five years later. (12/94 - 07/00)
For the Playstation 2 the slimline model came out over four years later. (03/00* - 11/04)
It takes years for the technology to improve to the point that the components can be bought cheaper and packaged into a smaller model without sacrificing hardware quality. Since the Playstation 3 was released in 11/06 we shouldn't expect it till 2010 at least. Did I miss some announcement where they said they were working on a slimline and hoping to get it out soon?
*Japanese release was March, the rest came in October/November of that year.
