Who knows if the "leaked" images of the slim PS3 are real or not? They didn't look very real to us. Or maybe it was a different one. We keep hearing about a slim PS3. Regardless, someone doesn't want us looking at them.
Someone called in the lawyer attack dogs (à la Call of Duty: World at War) and sent them to website Spong. Taiwan-based lawyers asked the site to remove images and a story named 'New Slim PlayStation 3 Pix Torn Down,' which they ran late last week. They were also asked to keep quiet on the request, which they did not.
Here's an excerpt from the lawyer's request:
As appointed by our client, we hereby inform you that the web pages on your website contain some of our client's confidential documents and photos, which were highly possibly illegally released and posted.
...please immediately remove those pages and keep our request confidential.
If those images were fake, then why would someone sic lawyers on them to remove content? Remember that on the internet, anything could be fake. Even this letter.
[Update: Engadget also got one of these letters.]
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7:40 PM on 05.18.2009
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Even this post.
And this comment...
And me?! GAH
I refuse to believe that a plastic board with PS3 on it is a new version of the PS3!!
Plus, this letter is what was officialy published, under our noses Sony send Snake to take car of the guys who posted thos pics.
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Is that like 'kinda-sorta-maybe'?
You're right man, it smells like bullshit
So incredibly fake.
And "the web pages on your web site" sounds awfully redundant.
But, if you look at the other picture included in the gallery, you see that it is lacking this button board thing. Why would Sony have two different models of the "slim PS3" already, both of which look horrible?
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Preach on. If Sony released an affordable PS3 Lite without Blu-ray or the extra ports, so many people would buy it day one. They're just stubborn about "every PS3 having to be cutting edge Blu-Ray!!!OMG!!!"
Forthcoming Sony statement: "We said we weren't planning a slim PS3, when really we were. But now we're definitely not... bastards."
The trade mark is to assure customers that they're getting Sony (in this case) products. A good reason to remove them is to avoid any confusion, and rightfully so. There were more than a few people who were instantly interested in getting a PS3 once they saw those images - The last thing Sony need is another "When will you do this?" grudge (like price reduction, backwards compatibility), based on a product that doesn't even exist.
Either that or the site that posted the pics were told to remove them, and they're just making something up to make it that much more believable.
The games are on blu-ray, if they release a blu-ray less PS3 it wouldn't work. Its safe to say blu-ray isn't optional at this point.
Besides blu-ray is replacing dvd, is being studied and improved everyday, and is the reason games like MGS4 even exist, why on earth would they give that up?
And don't believe that low percentage of people are buying it crap, only those truly straped for cash or those who happen to be in the center of the recession(AKA America) seem to be having issues.
The reason they haven't lowered it is because the rest of planet earth seems fine with it.
I meant without a blu-ray disc player/capabilities. It would only be a small downgrade (to not include the software to run them), but it's something to cut costs. And yes, it's not outselling anything comparable to it (Xbox, Wii, DS), so I do say it's sales are low, but they are not suffering.