{"id":12467,"date":"2011-06-20T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"sony-japan-reveals-new-ps3-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/12467-sony-japan-reveals-new-ps3-model","title":{"rendered":"Sony Japan reveals new PS3 model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Japan announced over the weekend a <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?js=n&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;layout=2&amp;eotf=1&amp;sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jp.playstation.com%2Fps3%2Fhardware%2Fcech3000b.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"new model of PS3\">new model of PS3<\/a> &ndash; the CECH-3000B.<\/p>\n<p>Coming in charcoal black, the power consumption has been reduced from 230W to 200W. Weight has been reduced from 3kg to 2.5kg. The standard accessories are included: One Dual Shock 3 controller, the power cable, AV cable and USB cable. A 320GB HDD is the standard retail package, with no word of other standard retail variations at this point.<\/p>\n<p>There is a special edition version of the CECH-3000 model for a Japanese game no one has heard of called Tales of Xillia (the 13th entrant in the series if Wikipedia is to be believed). This version comes with a 160GB HDD. Picture below to entice the one guy in South Africa that would make the effort of importing one of these collector&rsquo;s editions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/CECH_3000_tales_of_xillia_118942624.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Japanese pricing for the product is just about the same as the existing 320GB PS3 &lsquo;slim&rsquo; 25xx model, which means that if the gaming gods smile upon us in South Africa, it may cost around R3,899 when it hits our shores.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/14889-New-PS3-model-CECH-3000B\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Sony Japan reveals new PS3 model\"><strong>Sony Japan reveals new PS3 model<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andriasang.com\/e\/blog\/2011\/06\/20\/new_ps3_announced\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Andriasang\">Andriasang<\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new PS3 will feature a handful of design tweaks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}