SO, in case no one has noticed, the new PS3 Slim has released! Its been dropped in price to only $299.99! Hallelujah! Sweet! Hype +1...yeah...great...ok now lets hit reality.
Everything else doesn't really matter. You heard me. Its a cheaper ps3 and thats it. Sure it might be a half an inch shorter in lenght, the polish isn't exactly the same and you have to push on the buttons instead of sliding you fingers over them, but is that really going to matter?
People have lost all common sense and are making posts after posts about "how heavy is the new slim?" ... why, do you plan on bench pressing it? "Does it play DVD's?", it IS still a ps3 buddy. Its like people think the new ps4 has come out and they havn't heard of a ps3. NO, its not backwards compatable, neither are any of the other ps3's with the exception of the 60GB's that came out at release over 2 years ago.
What issue needs to be addressed instead is if the ps3 community going to get enough boost in its population? There are a lot of games that are going to come out and many of them depend on a good player base in order to succeed. Games like M.A.G and MW2, Demon Souls, (among others) are releasing within just a couple of months from each other and we currently don't have enough players online to make each of those games a success.
If everyone from CoD goes to M.A.G. and MW2, the Uncharted 2 community might not be strong enough to make it fun. Borderlands might spring alive and quickly grind to a hault much like F.E.A.R 2 did when Killzone 2 came out just a few weeks later. Now you might find 3 people playing on a Fri-Sat night max on FEAR 2.
The only hype worth noting about the ps3 slim, is the possible boost to our player base that will fill all the new multiplayer games comming out. Whenever the population goes up on a network, things change. Sometimes good, sometimes bad. World of Warcraft started charging its customers more when they got a couple million more players. Final Fantasy Online started adding updates once a week! What will happen to the PSN...who knows, but there will be change and it will be thanks to the mighty ps3 Slim!