With the next holiday season gearing up in manufacturing centers worldwide, this would be a good idea for Sony. If there is going to be an actually "upgrade" to the system in the next year, other than a new HD and some changed BT/WiFi cards, august-october would be the best time to get it out. I would expect to see a high dollar contract signed for advert. if they did do a redesign.



I've been hearing rumors about this, and a new wii out for holidays as well(now that worlwide demand is almost equal to production), we'll see what happens.

I would actually be surprised if it followed the other "slim" offerings of the past. I don't think they've gotten enough of a tech boost yet to force the form size for most of the pcb's to fit inside a smaller package. I also don't see them releasing a 3rd model later on to make an even more slim version. So we'll see, guessing it'll be a less power hungry version this year, slim by next holiday(2009).

Well if you can 'slim' it down and shave off a few hundred off the production cost AND drop the price with still making profit then there is no downfall to changing the model.

I want to get the MGS4 Bundle when it comes out but I don't know if I want to for the holidays to see if a slimmer ps3 sku will be out. This really affected my decision. I hate when things like this pop-up when I already have my decision made and some thing similar or worth better better comes out or is rumored.



I wonder if it will have the new bluetooth version, blue ray version, and if it be compatible with ps1/ps2 gave via emulator or E.E.