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.

For the past few days rumor mills were crunching the possibility of a €399(Euro not Dollar) PS3. Today Sony officially at London confirms this in fact is true. Its will be launched throughout all the SCEE territories” on October 10th for €399 ($565).

But before you gets hands on one of these mind it only comes with just a pair of USB 2.0 ports rather than the usual four, no multi-memory card port and it no longer backward compatible with the PlayStation 2 titles.

OLED display has been buzzing since long time but never made it to TV sets, maybe few gadgets like MP3 players. But Sony Corp yesterday confirms an ultra-thin flat TV based on the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology will ship starting this December 1.

The debutant XEL-1 is a 11 inch display TV sports a “crazy contrast ratio” of 1,000,000:1, thats crazy. But most consumers will give it a pass this because of the paltry resolution of just 960 x 540 which is way short of true HD. Actually original prototype boast as resolution of 1024 x 600, maybe because of technical difficulties they dropped the idea.

Kaz Hirai finally has some good news for the PS3 fans at the Tokyo Game Show 2007. The DualShock 3, SIXAXIS with rumble is official. Already few big names including Metal Gear Solid 4, are in development to use the rumble facility and existing games can be updated with the rumble. Atlast… we really missed the rumble feature. Sony has been constantly been blaming technical difficulty as the main reason behind the late arrival of the DualShock 3, but you can’t keep the Immersion lawsuit out of the story no matter how much Sony tries to convince us. No word on the price for the DualShock 3 but here is the official list of games that will use the DualShock 3 or get a software update to work with it. 

Opposable Thumbs are reporting the possibility of two new PS3 SKUs this holiday season. Rumor has it that Sony might clamp down the 80GB PS3 to $499.99, But the biggest buzz is with the 40GB Ps3 that expected to retail at $399. Another rumor says the SKUs might pack in a copy of SpiderMan 3 on Blu-Ray. Still hot in the news is the PlayStation 2 that might get a $99 drop as it still adds in huge for Sony’s bottomline. Its been already proven how a $100 (PS3 60GB) price drop can clean the shelfs faster then you can say “OMG”. At upcoming Tokyo Game Show, which commences from September 20th through 23rd, Sony may infact reveals some details.

Sony too jumps onto the SSD bandwagon after unveiling its 11.1-inch notebook pc ‘VAIO TZ18GN’ equipped with SSD instead of HDD. Well you’d ask the benefits of switching to SSD rather then HDD …… guess what your SSD based notebook will be faster as the data transfer in SSD’s is damn quick, lighter weight and longer battery life then the existing HD.

As we had told earlier about the fast loading time, slimmer shell, lighter in weight but now we would like to highlight some real facts about the all new PSP.

The new PSP is based on a TA-085 PCB, which is not really different from the previous one. The new PSP also includes a WLAN switch on the top. Unfortunately one can’t use an original PSP remote with the new PSP. The RAM in the new PSP has been doubled from 32MB to 64MB, oooh that’s what I feel is something really awesome. The 1200mAh battery consumes less energy and can stay for about 3-6 hours, the previous PSP had 1800mAh battery, and well it also would give same stand by time. Now, you don’t really need to worry about charging when you’re busy with your pc as you can charge the new PSP over USB.