Rumour: PS3 Downgrades, External PSU & No Functional Beta's

[Zeus]

Some 'Phantom insider' claims we will see the PS3 with downgraded specs than originally planned for Sony's next-gen console. We're looking at lower clock speeds, an external power supply and fully functional PS3 beta's are said not to exist. Sounds rather fishy to me right now.



Phantom Insider says: Fully functional PS3 betas still do not exist

Red says: hmm

Phantom Insider says: Despite that we have seen a number of downgrades

Red says: clock speed?

Red says: remember it was going to be 3.5 ghz?

Phantom Insider says: And now we have been told that the powersource might be an external 400 watt unit after all

Phantom Insider says: instead of internal as promised

Phantom Insider says: The current designs despite having vents all over the place apparently still cant dissipate the heat to sufficient levels

Phantom Insider says: And yields on 3.2 Gigaherz CELL processors are too low

Red says: they can't produce them in mass supply still?

Phantom Insider says: so the final release might run only at 2.8 gigaherz

Red says: were the units at e3 2.8?

Phantom Insider says: yes

Phantom Insider says: and had 2 gigs of ram

Phantom Insider says: dev kits ya know


News Source: <a href="http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/sony/more-ps3-downgrades-on-the-way-179863.php#more" target="_blank">Kotaku</a>

[Kaomaru]

crap crap crap, bored of those morons launching rumors etc...

[Cyphix]

crap crap crap, bored of those morons launching rumors etc...

I second that.

[The Bat]

The factories will have to be cranking out PS3 units for retail within about 2½ months to meet their production schedules for November. I'm not buying that they're looking at a complete redesign of the console at this point. The specs may have been for the development kits, in use for the last couple of months at least, which isn't final hardware anyways.

In short, crap? Thirded.