Sony: PS3 Slim could have been smaller
The PS3 Slim is small and cheap enough as it is, but did you know that Sony actually wanted to make it even smaller? Sony Computer Entertainment’s Masayuki Chatani let Nikkei in on Sony’s scrapped plans for the Slim in a recent interview.
The PS3 Slim is small and cheap enough as it is, but did you know that Sony actually wanted to make it even smaller? Sony Computer Entertainment’s Masayuki Chatani let Nikkei in on Sony’s scrapped plans for the Slim in a recent interview.
According to Chatani, some of the more radical possibilities Sony explored involved switching out the PS3’s hard drive and replacing it with flash memory. Sony also considered removing local storage altogether and relying on PlayStation Network to save all of a user’s data — everything from game data to personal files and settings.
In the end, Sony scrapped both options because they “felt that the price would be too high for the amount of storage capacity the PS3 needs.”
Chatani also noted that even after taking the above considerations off the equation, a much smaller PS3 Slim was still a possibility. In order to do so, however, they would have had to use an external power supply, which “would have imposed restrictions on transport and use, making it harder to use freely.”
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