Comments on: PS3 Slim Price, Release Date, Pics and Specs Announced by Sony

By: technabob

technabob — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:56:16 +0000

If it’s the 3.0 OS that breaks alternative OS installs (as mentioned in that post), I’m afraid that means this will affect ALL PS3s once that update hits.

(and I also still have the original PS3 60GB too, and the hardware PS2/PSOne gameplay is much better than the software emulator.)

By: Black ICE

Black ICE — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:31:09 +0000

I have one of the first PS3 so I can still play all my PS2 titles on it

Just for reference, here it says, that they remove the alternative ÖS thing:
http://futurezone.orf.at/stories/1624450/

By: technabob

technabob — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:15:20 +0000

Dunno. I can’t find any official details on the subject, but I’d bet that the alternative OS thing isn’t a priority for Sony. Sony has a tendency to eliminate less popular functionality as they downsize hardware and reduce costs (remember how the original PS3 had the actual PS2 hardware in it, then the 2nd gen replaced that with a software emulator?) I’ll check around and see if I can find anything out.

By: Black ICE

Black ICE — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:08:02 +0000

I read in a german tech news website that the new firmware will not allow anymore installation of alternative OS. Is this true?

I am using Linux on my PS3 as well and this would be very bad.

By: RosenRed

RosenRed — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:28:22 +0000

This also means that prices will drop for the older brother Not bad, not bad at all

By: technabob

technabob — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:47:57 +0000

More pics here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/playstationblog/sets/72157621951580007/

By: JimMoz

JimMoz — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:42:52 +0000

Ahh finally the PS3 Slim. After checking out my friends gigantic PS3 I decided to hold off and get the Slim. I figured they would release it eventually. Woot!