The new PS3 Slim has just been released, and ifixit has already posted a teardown. First, they easily removed the included 120GB hard drive, suggesting that upgrading it shouldn’t be too hard.

In gaming terms, the PlayStation 3 is ancient. Sony’s third-gen console was released in 2006; to put that in context, the iPhone didn’t arrive until 2007, Android first appeared in 2008 and the iPad ...

This was the first Slim revision by Sony, which has been utilized in every PlayStation generation since. PlayStation 3 Slim arrived ... release was the lack of backwards compatibility.

The Sony PS3 Super Slim is the gaming brand's latest console and it's cheaper and slimmer that its predecessors. We went in for a closer look With the Nintendo Wii U set to launch before the end ...

The Sony PlayStation 3 game console was so eagerly ... Capacity HDD: 120 GB, 160 GB, 250 GB and 320 GB. The Slim model was 33% smaller and 36% lighter than the original. It had lower power consumption ...

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That didn't last very long either, though, with PS2 compatibility removed by the time the "Slim" models of the PS3 hit stores ...

The PlayStation 4 had seven years before the PS5 came out, and the PlayStation 3 was also around for seven ... so sticking with it would make things like backward compatibility and cross ...

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These concerns are mostly based on the issue of backward compatibility ... and both the PS VR headset and PlayStation Camera for PS4. PS3 games and earlier are not compatible with PS5 ...

In the meantime, Sony has released the PS5 Slim and has just shown off the PS5 ... and that apparently backwards compatibility was a big factor, and AMD's work on the PS5 may have made that ...