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PS3 Price Drops Tomorrow, Slim Redesign Coming Soon

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Gamescom press conference reveals all on Sony's new model.


The scene from Cologne. 
The scene from Cologne. 
Well, it looks like the retailers listing a Slim PS3 were right. Sony has announced that redesigned, 33-percent-smaller PlayStation 3 hardware will be available worldwide by September 1. It will come with a 120GB hard drive and will run for $299 in the US. That'll translate to 299 Euros and 29,980 yen in other regions.

Prices on the existing PlayStation 3 hardware will drop tomorrow.

Other announcements revealed by Sony in Germany this morning include a digital comics reader for the PSP (with Marvel Comics supporting the service), and smaller downloadable games for the PSPgo launch called "PSP minis." For a blow-by-blow look at what happened when, check out Joystiq's live blog. 
 

 
 
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Edited By MrJiggerski

Look's hot, I hope there are some games for it.

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Edited By Cartridge_Eater

The time to buy PS3 has come

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Well, good to see the worst kept secret of the year finally came out!

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What are the odds of Microsoft doing their own price drop on August 31st/August 28th.

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Jack: .....the ps3, the world's greatest gaming system....
while i love the ps3 (my favorite console right now) that statement  takes some balls to go out and say "our console is the best evar."
great news though!
 
@thewanger: wait, what?   blu-ray won the format war. if you go to best buy or wal-mart you would notice there are no HD-DVDs there.

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" and will run for $299 in the US. That'll translate to 299 Euros and 29,980 yen in other regions."
Noooo. 299 euro is not the same as $299. Come on people, give us fair prices

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Already pre-ordered one and I'm going to pick up MGS4 once I go and get it.  Its a bummer that it only has composite cables.  There goes another $20-$50 from my wallet to get HDMI cables.

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Hey, I was just at Best Buy the other night picking up  a new camera, and right on the screen on one of the check out computers was the advertisement for preordering the PS3 slim ($299.00 CAN). I thought that was pretty cool, because usually in Canada I feel ripped off buying games.
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$300 isn't exactly "cheap".

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@m1k3 said:
" Didn't SONY say they were working on something to give BC to the PS3s that dont have it? im just assuming that what ever it is and what ever firmware revision it will be on, im sure that the slim will get it also. "
yeah, i've heard sony is going to make a firmware to make ALL ps3 to have backward capability. i kind of hope it comes true because there are some games that i want to play that i never got to finish. 
 
i knew this was going to happen. i just got a ps3 around the end of june. i used a coupon that i found online that was like 30% off electronics at dell.com. i bought a 80 gig hard drive for $360. it's not to bad of the price going down.
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I'm seriously considering trading in my original 60GB model for one of these, mainly for the Bravia Sync.

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Edited By Anarchist4Eva

Time to see the excuses why you shouldn't buy a PS3 get modified. It was for the longest time "Just too expensive." Any guess what it'll be know? How about this; "360 is more reliable, dude. Ya' know that YLOD thing!"

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Its about time!!!