Rumor: Third PS3 model in the works?

This version, which has yet to be verified, isn't going to be packaged as a gaming platform like the former two, but will instead be featured as a video entertainment system. In line with the "mod" to the system, this third variant will carry these features:

* Anti-vibration mechanism for the Blu-ray disc drive.
* 512MB XDR memory.
* Advanced power supply unit.
* Two HDMI connectors to divide audio and video data.

[BIadestarX]

If you follow the article link you will see how some Sony fanboys are happy this is comming. I wouldn't dought many Sony fanboys would not think 2 times before selling their balls to get this. Besides whats the point of getting this? To be allowed to make your own games so other with the same expesive console can see them? Here is an advice; get yourself an HD-TV buy yourself a PS3 (which comes with blu-ray) and you may still have money to buy a PC which you can use to make games. Or if you are not married to Sony, get yourself a 360 for $399, the xna free ($100 to distribute to other 360 owners) and get an HD-TV with what's left.

[DJ]

This is a bunch of BS. We can already get top-of-the-line Blu-ray functionality and the most powerful console for the low price of $499. There's no way people would shell out 25 grand for a slightly suped system.

[power of Green]

Twenty Five Hundred, not grand.

[ChickeyCantor]

"This version, which has yet to be verified"
and it should be kept that way, first sell your first PS3 then go talk about 2500$

[djbassay2k5]

caught my eye and had me rolling on the floor for what felt like hours...

[Aflac]

sony was stupid enuf to price their system $100-$200 more than it's higher powered rival, yes, but i highly doubt theyd be stupid enuf t price another sku $2100 more. that would take away the viewpoint of it being a steal as a bluray player too.

[Scrumptious]

of the PS3 with different specs? More RAM?

I remember how well this worked for the Turbo-Duo from NEC. When you change the essential parameters of the system, it creates trouble and confusion. I doubt any developer will optomize software for this system.

[power of Green]

That Dev's developing title's for the 3rd sku and leaving out the majority of consumers, i wonder how they'll over come; the two diferent versions on the same platform problem(* 512MB XDR memory).

This has to be BullShit although Sony's probably feeling cornered and may feel this is their last hope to compete with MS's future title's and for the maket leadership for that matter.

[DJ]

PS3 beta kits had 512 MB XDR and 512 MB GDDR3, so it wouldn't be very different. Either way, this story just isn't going to happen. They're concentrating on building up the PS3 and preparing for PS4. There's no reason to even attempt something like the PSX again.

[MicroGamer]

and it is only going to make the supply situation for the first two SKU's even worse by tying up vital components. Nobody bought the PSX media center thing in Japan, and I don't think anyone is going to be buying this, either.

[OutpostCommand]

I personally think this is good news.
Why not ? I most definately buy this more expensive version.

Anyhow, guys, XBIT seemed to talk about this in a rather convinced manner, so im not sure whether this is fact instead of mere rumour:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/new...

[dbug360]

http://www.xbox365.com/news...

Sony have done this before with the psx(dvr)and that thing was dam expansive!! so i wouldn’t put it past them again

[THAMMER1]

512mb over 256mb winns every time. I think this is a rumor at best.

[Athlon]

This is unnecesasry on Sony's part. 512MB? For What? Will developers use this memory in game development? If so, that a pie in the face to all those buying a current PS3 or who currently own onw.

[GRUNT]

Why not just put 1 GB?!?!

Definintion of ram:
http://www.webopedia.com/TE...

[OutpostCommand]

Remember thought-
The PS3 already has 512MB of RAM.
It has 256MB of GDDR3 and 256MB of XDR.

It just means that with 512MB of XDR, you may get a extra few FPS here and there since XDR > GDDR3.

[Liarlair]

The improvement of this system is not for gaming,but TV's function,like vedio recording or picture in picture.I mean multi-vedio(HD) recrd/edit,and alots of pictures in pucture.And I heard they will even put 2 cell in the box in this version.
This PSX2 is not facing the vedio game market.This is just a BR-player with PS3.And yes sony done it before,PSX sell well in japan too.

[djbassay2k5]

Ps3 modular like a pc with base line specs to be release for everyone/and for the devs to develop to.

Minimun of 1GB of RAM (512XDR/512GDDR3)
--good frame buffer
-larger game environments
-possible frames per sec improvement

hot swappable HDD(pretty much really done)
i mean like 3.5" hdd's not those B!TCH@$$ laptop hdd's everyone is into

Changable Gpu(nvidia did this at one point in time)
to choose between a system HDR/AA limit from 2x to 16x

Changable Disc drive for faster speeds....

man i should have headed the ps3 dev team lol

[FKN Unbelievable]

With What Money sony has to experiment again?
Don't they Owe? This is Bogus along with being a Fanboys dream.

[The great 1]

You said higher powered rivial, BS, since when has the Xbox 360 been more powerfull, fact is games that have been released on the PS3 later than the Xbox 360 look better, however games like COD 3 and Marvel Unlimited Alliance look better on the 360 by half an inch, so please it's due to developers effort, PS3 is a complicated machine, with power waiting to be unleashed, don't be suprissed if PS3 looks 5 times better in years to come.

[FKN Unbelievable]

"PS3 is a complicated machine, with power waiting to be unleashed,"

Hey @ss-Pirate Who wants to pay 600$ for potential in years to come When you getting you @ss handed to you right this minute? We all have potential to be geniuses but that don't mean it gonna happen years later. I mean Look at you perfect example. Keep it official Son.

"BS, since when has the Xbox 360 been more powerfull,"

It never has been more powerful, just easier to develop for and that goes along way.

[The great 1]

Well i guess in the eyes of rabbid hungry starved, deprived Xbox 360 fanboys like yourself i am retarded, but generally not as retarded as you now to my point, you idiots will never know what it means to have something you love, i loved ps1, i loved ps2 and hey guess what i love ps3 already, so why would i want to buy that heat box know as the Xbox 360? What reason do i have to jump ship, abslolutely none, for 1 the PS3 just looks like a better machine............ plus all these darn exclusives on the 360 sound like games i'd never play, the only interesting ones are, Lost Planet, Halo 3 and mabye 1 or 2 others, but as far as all this exclusive nonsense goes what's it worth if you don't like the games, they sound like there gonna be big games, but the question is they might be horrible games to me, such as cricket or something you know what i mean, game scores 90% but you hate the sport, plus i prefer the PS3 controller over the fat pad that is the Xbox 360, don't gimme this rumble nonsense, i couldn't care less about rumble, we did without it before and guess what we are again, it's nothing fantastic rumble, don't be suprised if in 20 years or something someone gets some sort of disease due to rumble, anyway i only can play so many games at once so Sony only having a limited amount of games out at this time means nothign as long as they have 1 or 2 good games, problem sorted so go kiss a+s elsewhere, or in more English, stop sucking up each others a+ses, i can see Xbox is a good console and has good games, but yous idiots will never understand i plain and simply just don't want the Xbox, i just don't thk it's a better console and the games comming out are not as appealing as the PS3 games comming out no matter how big there exclusive list is, the fact remains i still like more games on the PS3, plus rather than all you Xbots telling me what games are comming out to justify your purchase of console, how about you tell people what's out? The answer not much, jees if i were to name all the titles comming out for PS3, i think i could overtake that list o good games comming out on the 360, but for the sake of backing up what i said about not much being out on the Xbox 360, let's tell all the good games, Oblivion, Gears of War, Dead Rising, Fear, Smackdown vs Raw 2007, Saints Row perhaps, but at that of games out on the 360 that are exclusives that's all thev got out in one year onh my, pretty powerfull when you here it like that, so anybody reading my post and hearing it like that knows Xbox fanatics talk BS, better games, what better games, PS3 has only been out 1 month and it's already starting to take on there best games out right now, remember all these Xbox 360's sold are no doubt by existing Xbox 360 owners, it'll be funny, when PS3 hits Europe it will be the greatest launch ever with 30 plus games, then Xbox 360 will start to eat dust.

[FKN Unbelievable]

your still a @ss-Pirate and what games are coming out for PS3 that haven't lost their exclusive right? I figured since you are a Hardcore Fanboy at least be a smart one but then again there no such thing as a smart Sonee Fanboy. BTW your Post is Much Like the PS3, big,hard to Understand, Meaningless and could have been easier to read if you just shut the Fuk up.

[foghornlegahorn]

I am very tired of system fan boys. I am a gamer....that will enjoy certain titles on all systems. I own all three at the moment. Wii and the 360 I enjoy alot. PS3 has upset me so far, a true gamer you can take this critiscm to heart. PS3 has a lot of functionality issues that it needs to resolve. Wireless controllers that I need to push the PS button too many times evertime I want to switch a game. The PS2 games look like crap on the PS3 and, I only play PS2 games on it at the moment anyway, since their launch lineup has nothing of value except maybe Resistance. Blu-Ray...I threw in the movie that it came with and it showed me nothing, where I would rush out to best buy and start gobbling up all the BluRay discs. I have a PS3 right now because eventually Final Fantasy and God of War or a Kingdom Hearts 3 would make it to the system if they aren't lost exclusives. If I had read someone else's blog who owned all three and found what I did....I would have waited a year to purchase the PS3, because they would have fixed many issues and maybe had some good titles out also. Take it from a gamer and not a fanboy.

[The great 1]

You got owned plain and simple, you have never played a PS3 so get off it, i have little else to say to you.