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Everything Geeky: Sony Finally Releases Cheaper, Smaller PS3 Slim

August 26th, 2009 1:00pm EDT Post a comment

PS3 Slim

The video game Gods have heard our prayers, people, and/or finally Sony is paying attention to their fanbase. For years now the industry has been scolding Sony for their high prices

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Wed Aug 26 2009 15:00:12 By: Agent Smith (

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just fyi, the first wave of PS3s had either a 30 ($499) or a 60 ($599) gb HDD and IS backward compatible with PS1 and PS2 games, and it also has 4 USB/controller ports, along with everything else you already mentioned about the slim. They dropped the backward compatibility for the 2nd wave, which were 40 gb and 80 gb models with only 2 USB ports.
My guess is that people just don't really care about he backward compatibility (I know I don't) because once you play a PS3 game you're not going back to PS2 games.
My guess is that in a year or so Sony will announce that they're discontinuing production of PS2s and publishers will slowly stop producing games for it also.
These things are gonna fly at $299.

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Wed Aug 26 2009 15:02:32 By: Agent Smith (

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Also, the downside to the two USB ports is that you need a splitter for Rock Band/Guitar Hero. One does come with the drums if you get the whole game though.

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Wed Aug 26 2009 16:09:35 By: nicerack (

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Not a game fan.

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Wed Aug 26 2009 16:12:59 By: WildCat09 (

12242)
I wonder how much they will cost in UK....?

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Wed Aug 26 2009 16:17:11 By: WildCat09 (

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^lol...I just checked our prices and you can find out for as little as £249.99!...THAT'S GOOD!

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