Market sources are claiming that Sony is working on a new variant of their older generation Playstation 2 gaming console which would feature an internal power supply.
This version could be priced as little as USD 99 as the company would be able to cut costs by integrating the power converter inside the device itself.
Sony is currently offering the PS2 console for USD 129 in the US market.
Market analysts are also suggesting that the company could drop the price of the current PS2 to USD 99 for the upcoming holiday season.
They are failing to sell enough units of their latest Playstation 3 console and are facing huge losses. Microsoft and Nintendo are dominating the US market with sales of Xbox 360 and Wii gaming consoles.
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The 40GB Playstation 3 console bundle is now available for $399.99. Included with the 40GB harddrive PS3 is the Spider-Man 3 Blu-ray disc movie. Don’t forget that if you buy a PS3 before January 31, 2008, you can get 5 additional Blu-ray movies for free. If you’re not a gamer, this is a great deal for entry into HD movies. Having both the Xbox 360 HD DVD player and the PS3 Blu-ray player.
The 40 GB Playstation 3 Spider-man 3 bundle is available online from retailers such as Gamestop and Amazon.com.
The PS3 40GB has 2 USB ports, 2 less than other models on the market and doesn’t support PS2 game compatibility. Here are the specs on the Playstation 3 40GB model:
CPU Cell Broadband Engine(TM) (Cell/B.E.)
GPU RSX(TM)
Sound Dolby 5.1ch, DTS 5.1ch , LPCM 7.1ch, AAC,
others *1 *2
Memory 256MB XDR Main RAM, 256MB GDDR3 VRAM
HDD 2.5? Serial ATA 40GB
I/O USB 2.0 x2
Communication Ethernet X1 (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T)
IEEE 802.11 b/g Included
Bluetooth 2.0 Included
(EDR)
Wireless controller (Bluetooth) Included
AV Output Screen size 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
HDMI OUT x1 *3
AV MULTI OUT x1
DIGITAL OUT x1
(OPTICAL)
BD/DVD/CD Maximum Read Speed BD 2x (BD-ROM)
Drive DVD 8x (DVD-ROM)
(Read Only) CD 24x (CD-ROM)
Dimensions Approximately 12.75in(W) x 3.86in (H) x
10.8in (D)
Weight Approximately 11 lbs
*1 A device compatible with Linear PCM 7.1 Ch. is required to output 7.1
Ch. audio, supported by Dolby TrueHD or a similar format, from the HDMI
OUT connector.
*2 This system does not support output from the DTS-HD 7.1 Ch. DTS-HD 7.1
Ch. audio is output from a 5.1 or lower channel.
*3 “Deep Color” and “x.v.Color (xvYCC)” defined by HDMI ver1.3a are
supported.
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