Where there's smoke, there's fire. Rumors of a "slim" version of the PS3 are almost as old as the console itself. Not surprisingly: sony has a history of releasing "miniaturized" versions of its consoles. It's a great business model. Without evidence, we never gave much credence to the rumors though.
This changed about 2 months ago when the pictures turned up that looked remarkably like a squashed down PS3. Speaking to
CVG, Sony denied that these were pictures of a new PS3 (note that they did not deny the existence of such a machine) and looking at the pictures, the shape in it looks more like a mold than an actual game console. In hindsight, maybe it was.
A Taiwanese site called UDN, now reports that
Sony has placed orders with two plants to produce Slim PS3's. As my Taiwanese is rather rusty (read: non-existent), I have to make do with Google translate:
To attack the summer vacation "home business", Sony (Sony) to launch a small section of the PS3 game changed, foundry list of recently finalized, it is said Hon Hai (2317) in "Feng also nest" PS3 back to the ranks of the foundry, divide up the PS3 with half Heshuo orders.
Upstream component makers that the new Sony PS3 console OEM orders formally approved last week, of which Hon Hai Heshuo pie with 50 percent of all orders, is expected to ship from the beginning of July to meet the summer demand.
To be honest, the English in that quote is so poor that its source might even be the recipe for tomato soup. If we assume it is not, it looks like the slim PS3s are already in production and are actually due to be shipped at any time.
Another rumor? We can't be sure, but it would put a couple of things in perspective. One of these being why Sony has been so adamant about not wanting to lower the price of its flagship console. A price reduction timed with the introduction of a slimline PS3 would make complete sense.
Before I started playing, I thought Anno 1404 (Dawn of Discovery) would be "more of the same" and little more than that. As it turns out, I was right about the first, but wrong about the second: there is a LOT more to the game than just a remake of 1701
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