By Eli Green
October 18, 2007 - 11:55
In fact, along with the announcement of the new Playstation 3 model, SCEA announce that, effective immediately, it the price of the 80GB model of the Playstation 3 has been reduced to $499 USD and CAD. The announcement of the price reduction and matching of the Canadian price to the American price, Sony has become the first of the big three video game console manufacturers to compensate for the state of the higher Canadian Dollar.
Finally, for those of our readers who like the technical side of things, here are the specifications for the new 40GB Playstation 3:
CPU
- Cell Broadband Engine(TM) (Cell/B.E.)
GPU
- RSX(TM)
Sound
- Dolby 5.1ch, DTS 5.1ch , LPCM 7.1ch, AAC, others *1 *2
Memory
- 256MB XDR Main RAM, 256MB GDDR3 VRAM
HDD
- 2.5" Serial ATA 40GB
I/O
- USB 2.0 x2
Communication
Ethernet - X1 (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T)
IEEE
802.11 b/g - Included
Bluetooth
2.0 - Included
EDR
Wireless
controller (Bluetooth) Included
AV
Output Screen size/resolution 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
HDMI
OUT x1 *3
AV
MULTI OUT x1
DIGITAL
OUT x1
OPTICAL
BD/DVD/CD
- Maximum Read Speed BD 2x (BD-ROM)
Drive
- DVD 8x (DVD-ROM)
(Read
Only) - CD 24x (CD-ROM)
Dimensions
- Approximately 12.75in(W) x 3.86in (H) x 10.8in (D)
Weight
- Approximately 11 lbs