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[PSthree] T3 lies - "New Playstation 3 this autumn?" 'mockup' included
LewieP
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New Playstation 3 this autumn?
Our man in the US has hunted down news of a size zero version of Sony's killer home hub.
Trawling the CES show last month, we happened across a rather juicy piece of gadget gossip.
According to a particularly well-informed insider, it seems that the Big S is prepping an all new PlayStation 3. The new incarnation is supposedly slimmer, lighter weight, and sexy as hell.
It's not as if Sony haven't got a history of making things slimmer and, er, lighter: The PSP shed a lot of its weight last summer, the original PlayStation ended up as the minuscule PSOne, and the PlayStation 2 re-incarnated as the PSTwo, which was an all-round sexier piece of kit to boot. Roll on PSThree?
Specs-wise, we're probably looking at the same machine with stacks of space and the trusty Blu-Ray player on board. The new PS3 is a proper looker: if it's anything like the illustration our team of designers have come up with, then we're looking at one hell of a sexy piece of kit.
We wouldn't be at all shocked if the much-touted 160GB PS3 is in fact this slimmed down puppy.
Sony has peddled their usual line of 'not commenting on rumours and speculation', but that is exactly what they said before they dropped the size zero edition of the PSP.
For now, that's all we have. But rest assured we'll be pounding the phones and keeping our ears pricked for any news as soon as we get it.
Like the pictures we've got here? Then you'll love the ones we've got in T3 magazine. This little beastie looks a hell of a lot better in full, glorious, glossy high-definition print than on a pesky computer screen!
Looks to me like a photoshop and a surefire way of selling more magazines, but who knows.
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And it was false back then, too.
Analysis of the image showed that it is, LITTERALLY, a stretched Wii photoshopped on to half of a PS3.
And the 'insider knowledge' is basically the same as one of us saying 'well yeah, the PS1 and PS2 has slimline versions, so they'd probably do this too.'
They'll do one eventually. But only when they need to boost sales, and they don't need that right now.
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Absolutely worthless.
Ploy to sell magazines, nothing more.
The thread can stay as a testament to how much magazines suck compared to the interwebs.
The way these (especially the ones with no disclaimer...) are done is usually in three steps. The first is to do a decent analysis of the company's existing design cues and trends along with rumors and sketch a few concepts. Second, the fake is modeled in a 3D app such as Maya or 3DS Max (or Blender). Finally, after a render, the image is brought into Photoshop for some touching up to make it look less like a render and more like an actual photo. Things like blemishes, slight plastic molding inaccuracies, and photographic artifacts are added there.
I know this because...
PSN:RevDrGalactus/NN:RevDrGalactus/Steam
The idfference here is that it is a few months old, and they made up the rumor entirely.
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Go watch more Zero Punctuation!
Edit: I just noticed, the disc seems to be upside-down...
I did a GIS for "xbox 360" again and got to like page 20 and decided that moment of fame had probably long since faded.
But.
But.
Do the same search for "xbox 360 fake."
Apparently some dude with a Gamespot account found it again last fall. And liked it.
As I recall, I had started on it right after Engadget had posted a brief firsthand description from an insider saying the long-awaited console was white, stood vertically, and "looked like it was sucking its cheeks in." My timing was a bit off, though; that same week Engadget broke an official image. Which ironically was a flat front-on shot that actually could have been done just in Photoshop.
PSN:RevDrGalactus/NN:RevDrGalactus/Steam
That is the magazines mockup
They admit to this
right there
there's no way they're getting a PowerPC chip of that power in that kind of case yet, much like how you're not going to see a slim 360 soon either.
edit: yes i know it's fake, but I seriously think the day and age of console re-casings is slowing down, as only the PS2 did it last time in a noticable fashion.
That would practically be a CD sleeve
Of course it is, it says so right in the article. They aren't exactly lying, just showing what it could look like if the rumour were true.
wait wait wait. your fake was this?
Although, imo, any mockup should have a watermark or something saying that it is a mockup, so that it can't be reproduced as if it were the real thing.
edit: fuck the game "Prototype" for making it impossible to find on youtube
edit: some pics not from the MTV event
Ha, that's awesome! Yes, that's the one I did. Part of the original image was a superimposed Microsoft logo in the lower right that was intentionally half-cut-off (to look like it was cropped out of some sort of ad) but that seems to have been removed by someone later.
I never did quite figure out how the image climbed the Google rankings even though it never made it to Engadget or Gizmodo, although I guess it got passed through a number of forums. A side note about this practice: One of the rules I (and any accomplices) would always follow is "never actually lie."
PSN:RevDrGalactus/NN:RevDrGalactus/Steam
There was an OXM around 360 launch that had images of a bunch of them, some not in that post either
I'll see if I can dig it up, but yeah, the game Prototype is making it difficult
I laughed pretty hard at this post.
Also, it's pretty much a given there will be a PSTHREE, but I doubt it'll be any time soon.