Rumour: New PS3 Model Photos Leaked

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Interestingly, these images of what appears to be the new PS3 surfaced this evening.

As to whether they’re real of not we don’t know, but that looks like a sliding, top loading section on the top with the ridges, and the profile definitely matches that of the FCC filings a week or so back.

In addition, Joystiq is reporting that the label numbers – CECH-4011A, CECH-4011B and CECH-4011C – refer to consoles with 16, 250 and 500GB of storage.

That smaller 16GB one might just be solid state storage, then.

It’s all falling into place.

From what I can gather, it looks like Brazilian site Tecnoblog found the images on the Brazilian Agency of Telecommunications site, rather like how the label positions were found on the FCC site.

Source: Tecnoblog, via Joystiq, IGN and NeoGAF.

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  1. Highly likely Sony leaked pictures to draw on public feedback for assistance in the final design, pretty normal business practice I’d have thought…just a tester put out there.
    Although it looks a bit like a Turbo George Foreman grill, as long as it doesn’t cook the CPU and GPU then I’m not too fussed about the design. It might even be available in different colours from the start which would give it more appeal.

  2. Nobody seems to have noticed that the power usage of this new model seems to have gone up from what the Slim version has. Why?

    • You’re basing that on the 190W figure on the label I presume?
      Assuming that’s a maximum rating then it’s actually less than the PS3 Slim was at launch. The PS3 Slim’s power supply was rated to deliver 18 Amps at 12 Volts. You know Watts = Volts * Amps yeah? So plugging 18A and 12V into the calculation gives us 12V * 18A = 216W.

      So if the 190W figure is a maximum rating, this suspected new ‘ultra-slim’ PS3 has a maximum power draw that is actually 26W lower than the PS3 Slim.

      (You can find images of the power ratings on the PS3 Slim’s power supply at http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/PlayStation-3-Slim-Teardown/1121/2 . See steps 12 and 13.)

      • Actually, correcting myself, the difference will be even bigger as the PS3 Slim’s supply also delivers 0.9A at 5.5V and the power supply won’t be 100% efficient, so the maximum power draw at the socket could be even higher.

        Of course the power supply will probably be able to deliver at least 10-20% more power than the console can use which is why the maximum draw seen at the socket when using a PS3 Slim will be lower than the power supply’s maximum draw.

        Indeed the PS3 Slim’s power draw was measured to top out at only about 100W (http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10318727-1.html) which may mean its power supply was significantly over-specced. The same may well be true of the ‘ultra-slim’.

      • Please, someone, get me a pair of donkey ears. I’ll position myself quietly in the corner of the room and shame myself. You’re absolutely right, my brain wasn’t awake when I wrote this and I don’t have a calculator on my watch either. I was probably confusing it with the measure in game energy consumption of the slim, measuring about 95 watt.

  3. ewww…. need some strong alcohol to forget i saw this thing, my eyes they burn

  4. This looks legit.

  5. It looks like a PS3 thats made woopie with a security shutter!

  6. But does it have a free view tuner built in?!

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