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Last holiday season Sony’s PS3 console faced its fair share of challenges. Sony’s latest hope in the console race is the upcoming version of the console that sheds some weight to get the price level of its competitors. Even at the $600 price tag Sony’s next gen console could have sold like hot cakes if only it had console selling games like Halo 3 at the launch. It had a great Blu-ray disc player, basically it was a powerhouse of a system but without games PS3 is just a playboy’s fantasy.

The upcoming low end version of the PS3 houses a 40GB harddrive besides no backward compatibility with the PlayStation 2 games. Sony also axed the memory card slots, dropped down to just 2 USB ports, and removed support for SACD playback. Thankfully Wifi stay.
Since both the Xbox 360 and Wii come in white, Sony decides to try the new ceramic white case design as the alternative to the magnet gloss black(the black version is still there) maybe white is a luckier color then black.
The new models will ship day-and-date with the new DualShock 3 controller, which adds vibration feedback. But unfortunately, it looks like the new console won’t ship with the new DualShock 3, and instead will pack in a standard SIXAXIS model. You might have to purchase the DualShock 3 pads if you wanna enjoy feedback.

The 40GB PS3 will hit stores in Japan on November 11th (for the equivalent of $341 USD) and in all likelihood, they’ll be available in North America within a couple of weeks of that for around $399.

[SCEJ via CrunchGear]

Pranjal