PS3 Slim & Lite Rumoured February 4, 2008

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The PS3 is a big brute when it comes to consoles. To be fair, the Xbox 360 is hardly a slinky either. Sony is rumoured to be sorting that out this Autumn with a PS3 Slim & Lite, for want of a better name.

T3 are pushing this latest bit of PS3 gossip from what it calls a “particularly well-informed insider” it met at the CES Show in early January. The new console is said to be slimmer, lighter and sexier. It could be the one sporting a badly needed bigger hard disk drive too.

Of course, slimming down its gaming products is nothing new to Sony. The PSOne PS2 and PSP have all been put on the Belly Button Lint diet, or similar fad diets, at some stage in their lives so a slimmer PS3 seems more a certainly at some stage than a possibility. But by this Autumn? Great if it happens but it sucks if you already bought one.

Anyway, if T3 got this nugget of information at CES more than 3 weeks ago, why has it taken so long to reveal it? Maybe it's because it took its art department that long to create the illustration here. -Martin Lynch

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