Sony Announces PS3 Slim, Price Cut, Improvements To Home

Sony's press conference today at the Gamescom convention was full of announcements. They officially revealed the PS3 Slim, which will be 36% lighter and 33% smaller than the normal PS3. It will come with a 120 GB hard drive and list for $299 when it hits retail stores in early September. Normal PS3s will drop to that price as well starting tomorrow. (Unfortunately for Sony, their unveiling was spoiled a bit by several retailers jumping the gun on new advertisements, not to mention the rumors that had been swirling for weeks ahead of time.) Sony also announced a PS3 firmware update as well as new features and customization options for Home. In addition to that, the PS3 and PSP will be getting a digital reader service. At launch it will bring access to Marvel comic books, and will expand from there. They didn't talk much about their upcoming motion control scheme, but promised more details next month at the Tokyo Game Show.

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Unfortunately for Sony, their unveiling was spoile

[KharmaWidow]

And that's why Apple's secrecy is so important.

Re:It would be really nice...

[Jaysyn]

I've tweaked about 6 PSP Fats to run custom firmware using Chickhen as a starting point. No hardware modding needed if you have Sony Firmware 3.5 or lower. http://www.ps3news.com/PlayStation-Portable/psp-chickhen-homebrew-enabler-r2-is-now-available/ This works on *any* PSP1000 or PSP1001 & I think most PSP2001's. It can take a while for the TGA hack to actually "catch" & work. 1st time I did it probably had to try it 60 times or more. Then I use PSX2PSP to convert my PSX games into a format that the PSP can use. http://pspslimhacks.com/psx2psp-v13 An 8GB MemoryStick can hold quite a few compressed PSX games. Then I install BookR to read my ebooks. http://sourceforge.net/projects/bookr/ Hope this is useful to someone.