Turns out “Sand Dollar Enterprise, Inc”‘s address in Foster City, CA is registered to Sony, and by listing the PS3 Slim under a different company, they avoided detection by diligent FCC hunters like, well, us. Interestingly, the filing includes mention of two other models, differing only in HDD capacity from the 120GB model we’ve seen—looks like a 150GB and a 250GB. They’ll presumably command a higher price, though we have no idea exactly how much just yet. Still, we’ve got to commend Sony for this little bit of FCC espionage. [PS3 News via Engadget]
anonymous
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 10:56 AMHave confirmation it will be released September 3 for $499 with 120GB hard drive. Possible TV Tuner accessory to be released for Xmas!
matt
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 2:02 PMTV Tuner is kinda interesting!
I couldn’t care less about a “new ps3 model” thats just the same as the current model but with a bigger harddrive…
I replaced the 40Gig hdd in my ps3 with a 250gig one . Look at me! Ive got a pre-release PS3 Model!!1!
Wardski
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 2:33 PMCrikey some people are slow..
The TV tuner is already available. Its called PlayTV.
Google it!
matt
Thursday, August 20, 2009 at 9:22 AMits not available in Aus. I’m not sure how location dependent these devices are (would an american tuner work in aus?)
for instance, the delay in Aus may be to do with freeview integration.