120GB PS3 Slim Hardware Specification
The
new PS3 slim is priced at £249.99. The PS3 Slim is smaller than the old
PS3 80Gb and has more storage capacity. The addition of a 120GB hard drive
means that the PS3 slim could hold approximately 35,000 songs. The price
of the old PS3 was reduced by £50 just before the PS3 Slim was released
and the PS3 Slim followed that lead and is still priced at just £249.99.
This makes the PS3 slim great value for money, and much more competitive
with other games consoles.
| PS3 Slim 120Gb | |
|---|---|
| CPU (Central Processing Unit) | Cell Processor , PowerPC-base Core @ 3.2 GHz 1 x VMX vector unit per core , 512KB L2 cache 7 x SPE @ 3.2 GHz / 7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs / 7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE Total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS |
| GPU (Graphical Processing Unit) | Cell Broadband Engine 1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance Full HiDef (up to 1080p) x 2 channels Multi way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines |
| Sound Sub System | Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell- base processing) Memory 256 MB XDR Main RAM @ 3.2 GHz 256 MB GDDR3 VRAM @650MHz |
| System Bandwidth | Main RAM 25.6 GB/s / VRAM 25.6 GB/s System Floating Point Performance |
| Storage | 1 x Detachable 2.5" Serial ATA HDD 120GB |
| I/O | 2x USB2 Front / 1 x HDMI slot / 1 x AV optical digital out |
| Communication | 1 x Ethernet 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T 1 x Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g 1 x Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR) Support up to 7 controllers |
| Controller | Bluetooth (up to 7) USB 2.0 (wired) Wi-Fi (PSP) Network (over IP) |
| AV Output | Screen resolutions: 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p HDMI: 1 x HDMI out Analog: 1 x AV MULTI OUT Digital audio: 1 x DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) |
| Disc Media | CD: PlayStation CD-ROM, PlayStation 2 CD-ROM, CD-DA, CD-DA (ROM),
CD-R, CD-RW, SACD, SACD Hybrid (CD layer), SACD HD, DualDisc, DualDisc
(audio side), DualDisc (DVD side) DVD: PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM, PlayStation 3 DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW Blu-ray: PlayStation 3 BD-ROM, BD-Video, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE |
Manufacturer subsidies
Games console buyers have always been shielded from the true price of
the console by the subsidy that the manufacturers have provided. In a
nutshell, what Sony and Microsoft are doing is making a loss on the console
and a profit on the games. The theory is that you may only buy one console,
but you could potentially buy hundreds of games.
PC gamers know the true price of these components, a top end graphics card alone could easily cost over £300. If you look at what goes into making these games consoles, they are leagues ahead of their predecessors. These are multi-processor systems with stacks of memory, high end HiDef graphics cards and hard disk storage. The PS3 even includes a HiDef Blu-ray player, this alone could set you back £300. If you were to look at building the equivalent gaming PC, you could easily spend over £800.