Let me remind everyone that this should definitely be taken with at least a grain of salt, as it is a pretty big leak, and theres always the fact that many a person have tricked us into believing what they say to be true... and in the end some one always believes it, no matter how many times it happens again and again.

However, this is the same guy who predicted Firmware 2.80 to hit a few days ago, and everyone was surprised that for once, someone wasn't telling BS lies out. If he can find out about a FW update once, I'm sure he can do it twice. I've heard multiple rumors of Cross-game chat over the last 6 months and non of them have been proven true as of yet.

Perhaps this guy isn't lying, maybe these really are the specs for the new slimline PS3 everyone's being hearing about lately and FW 3.00 will really include cross-game chat.

PS3 Slim "Leaked" Specs

- It is a PS3 that's been cut down as much as physically possible without preventing the loss of playback of any existing PS3 title out there. It still has blu-ray, it still has wireless, it still has bluetooth and it still has gigabit ethernet.

- "OtherOS" support has been removed.

- Hard drive sizes will be bigger, it will come in 120Gb and 250Gb flavours. It's still replaceable and will actually be slightly easier as it has been relocated to the front of the console.

- It will NOT have any "new" features, such as backwards compatibility or enhanced peripheral support. It's just a PS3, but slightly smaller and cheaper.

- The power supply is still internal, but a different power cable will be used.

- Rear ports are still the same: 1x HDMI, 1x Sony AV port, 1x Optical, 1x Ethernet. And of course a power port.

- Release date and official announcement are not final.

- Price is undetermined, but make no mistake, this is a "slimmed" PS3 in ever sense of the word.

- It's as cheap as can possibly be, so expect it to launch with a smaller price tag than what you're paying now in your respective territories.

- Internally, several daughter boards have been removed, but all functionality is still there. This is due to a more advanced manufacturing process. It still uses a few extra boards, though, we're not quite at PSTwo levels yet.

- A Cheaper Blu-ray drive is being used. It wont be any slower, but expect to see similar issues that another competitor had a while ago.

- Touch-sensitive buttons on the front for power/eject are gone in favour of cheaper push buttons.

- It has a slightly different startup screen. Only slightly.

- It's about 50% smaller than current PS3s.

- It wont be called the "PS3 Slim". The PS1 "slim" and the PS2 "slim" were never officially called the "slim", either.

In short: It's a smaller PS3, but that's it. No new features, no special hardware, just smaller and cheaper. And it wont have sex with you.

Firmware 3.00 Quotes

Cross-game chat is in the works as part of Firmware 3.0. It wont be out during the summer, but assuming all goes well, it will be out well before the holidays. Current timeframe places it around September, but it's still very much a WIP.

If there are any major delays, that will slip and if there are very few delays at all, it might even arrive earlier, but don't bank on it as it is a lot more complicated than you might imagine. At this point, it's working quite well in the labs and supports several players at once.

It's targeted to work with all past and future games that support ingame XMB, much like text chat.

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