Sony Producing New PS3 Hardware, Slim Appears Likely

The Opposable Thumbs blog reports on a confluence of rumors and information leaks that suggest Sony will be unveiling a PS3 Slim sooner rather than later. Despite waning console sales, orders for PS3-related hardware have risen sharply. There's evidence to suggest that Sony is phasing out its 80GB model, which would help clear the way for a hardware revision. Some expect the official announcement to come as early as August 18th, during the gamescom expo in Germany.

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Re:When's the Yakuza 3 / Ryo go Gotoku 3 NA relea

[KamuZ]

Still unconfirmed, someone from Sega said "no localization" but took it back, who knows really.

http://kotaku.com/5326900/yakuza-3-american-release-still-unconfirmed

Re:He means the original 60GB one

[CastrTroy]

That reason is the reason I have the Wii this generation, and the reason I had the Gamecube last generation. Nintendo actually cares about loading times. Nintendo does a really good job with their consoles, and creates many games that don't suffer from loading times. There was quite a few games for the GC that had loading times (Need For Speed: High Stakes), but that was due more to bad design than to limitations of the console. Plenty of games like Metroid had almost no noticeable loading time. Loading on consoles annoys me to no end. Maybe it's because I grew up on the Nintendo, but games that take minutes to load are not something I like to deal with.