Sony has revolutionized and is taking our entertainment experience on a much greater height. Its innovative advances and seemingly unlimited ways to improve their initial products and releases surely overwhelmed consumers and prospective buyers. Five years ago, the said company released their first version of Playstation 2 which surmounted every existing gaming console in the market. And today, they set out a new trend, improving their initial release thus the birth of Playstation 3 Slim.
Sony Computer Entertainment had widely announced at their August conference in Cologne, Germany at GamesCom their new PlayStation. It has been tagged as PlayStation 3 SLIM, with great emphasis on the latter name. This will be available worldwide by September specifically in the first week with their promised lower price. So, before you jump out of your seats and head to your nearest game console retailer, here are bits of specifications you might need to look at.
The new PlayStation 3 slim had totally lived up to its slim name because of sleek dimensions and relatively lighter weight. It measures approximately 290 x 65 x 290 mm with its width, height and length accordingly. In addition it also weighs 3.2 kg. This is indeed the lean version compared to its former predecessor making this 33% smaller and 36% lighter from its former consoles.
The said gaming console already includes a bigger hard disk space amounting up to 120GB. This will be a perfect storage for your games more than anything else with perhaps more space for your movies, music and photos. Much more it has a built-in Wi-Fi with a browser already installed. It can even play relatively any DVD’s even the latest copies because of its Blu-ray player. Its magnanimity has transcended to its high definition view and better sound quality. It still supports various video format like MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4/h.264 whether from a disc-based media or a USB. It can even act like a digital media hub with its ability to stream content from DLNA-compatible network device.
Attached are other detailed specifications of the PS3 Slim that you might want to check:
* CPU: Cell Broadband Engine
* Product Code: CECH-2000 (Charcoal Black)
* Hard Drive: 120GB Serial ATA
* Audio output: 7.1CH LPCM, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS, DTS-HD, AAC.
* GPU: RSX
* Memory: 256MB XDR Main RAM, 256MB GDDR3 VRAM
* Hi-Speed USB (USB 2.0): 2 Hi-Speed USB (USB 2.0): 2
* Network: Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x 1, IEEE 802.11 b / g, Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)
* Controller: Wireless controller (Bluetooth)
* AV output HDMI OUT Connection: 1
* AV output AV MULTI OUT connector: 1
* AV output Digital out (optical) Connection: 1
* BD / DVD / CD drive (read only) Maximum read rate: BD × 2 (BD-ROM), DVD × 8 (DVD-ROM), CD × 24 (CD-ROM)
* Power: AC 220 – 240, 50/60Hz 4
* Power Consumption: Approx 250W
* Dimensions: approx 290 × 65 × 290 mm (width × height × length)
* Weight: Approx. 3.2kg
To allow a bigger audience to enjoy and benefit from this, Sony had cut off the price to $299. With such an amount you will not only etch a higher standard of entertainment but also a matte finish, good looking and substantial PlayStation gaming console. So if you are itching out to buy a perfect game box, then the PS3 is indeed a better choice.
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