Sony’s PS3 Slim is undoubtedly slimmer and lighter than its predecessor but had the price not been a constraint we could’ve got more slimmer and lighter version of the PS3 Slim. In an interview, Masayuki Chatani, SCE Strategy Planning confirmed that Sony had tried their hands on flash (or SSD) and network-based storage before going with the same ol’ spinning hard drives. Primary reason they dropped the idea was because “the price would be too high for the amount of storage capacity the PS3 needs.”
Sony also considered to make the PSU external, much like the PS2 Slim but refrained as it “would have imposed restrictions on transport and use, making it harder to use freely.”
But if we take this as an indication, we might see it in the future PS3 iteration. Called as PS3 Slim+?
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