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There's also a good posibility that it's the company that makes the boxes, who is very likely to be a separate entity. They could be worried about losing their contract for having an employee leak the pics.]]>May 18th 2009 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/
Slim is much nicer.]]>May 18th 2009 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/
Cina is getting peeved about IP theft...

AHAHAH I'll call you on your HiPhone to talk about it...

STFU AHHAAH

NUBS!!!]]>May 18th 2009 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/May 18th 2009 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/
But isn't that almost too obvious? Everytime I think that is indeed a dead giveaway I end up questioning myself. For example, if this really is a fake, why would they have the balls to use Sony's name, all their official PS logos, PSN logo, the Blu-Ray logo, etc... but then use a different font? Even the pink and green coverings in the background of the pictures match the setting of the actual PS3 assembly plant. It just almost seems too convenient that the font is wrong despite all the other details being correct. ]]>May 18th 2009 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/May 18th 2009 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/May 18th 2009 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/
Most likely this is a manufacturing or packaging firm contracted by Sony. Sony can sue their ass big time for this leakage, so they're trying to recover. Kind of a douche move on Engadget's part, but I also understand that once info hits the internet, it's public... there's no going back.]]>May 18th 2009 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/May 18th 2009 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/1. The font thing really isn't much of an issue, since the rest is correct. It's a new design, so why not a new font? The box looks legit enough with the rest of the appropriate logos and a design that looks like Sony could have done it, instead of a cheesy Chinese hack job, with tons of spelling/gramatical errors (and Chinese letters). None of the telltale signs of Chinese incompetence are on the box.
2. Chinese counterfeiters tend to copy or make things worse, not improve on a design. With things like a slot loading disc drive and usb ports, it's highly unlikely that this is a copy.
3. The backdrops look believable... if it were really a counterfeiter's factory, I doubt that they would use this many safety precautions.
4. The use of so many copy obviously copyrighted logos isn't what Chinese do, not on retail box art. One likeliness is risky, let alone three or four.
And it's about time Sony did a revamp of the huge/fugly PS3. They did it with the PS2 and PS1 (and somewhat with the PSP), so it's to be expected.]]>May 19th 2009 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/May 19th 2009 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/May 19th 2009 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/May 18th 2009 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/May 18th 2009 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/]]>May 18th 2009 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/
Can't say I would be happy AT ALL if I were this Chinese OEM, or Sony. But at the same time the pics are fascinating and really most right minded people would have suspected Sony of producing a slim anyway.]]>May 18th 2009 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/
The best is people crying about posts on websites and how it infringes on their rights for Engadget to delete them. People should do more legal research on issues instead of just reading a bumper sticker here and there. ]]>May 18th 2009 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/May 18th 2009 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/May 18th 2009 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/
Of course Sony wouldn't come after Engadget or any of the other web sites that published the pics, only unless there was some foul play involved. But more than likely Sony will hold the company that is producing the materials liable for any forseeable damages (that's IF this story isn't a hoax). ]]>May 19th 2009 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/May 19th 2009 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/May 18th 2009 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/May 18th 2009 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/May 18th 2009 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/May 18th 2009 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/May 18th 2009 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/
Engadget is powerful. Engadget pwned T-mobile. Engadget will do it again.]]>May 18th 2009 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/May 18th 2009 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/May 18th 2009 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/May 18th 2009 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/May 18th 2009 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/May 18th 2009 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/
that place is the den of copyright infringement and stealing]]>May 18th 2009 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/May 18th 2009 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/
*sighs at ignorance*]]>May 19th 2009 1:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/
China is where almost all of the copies of technology come from all the way down to rebranding memory and selling it as counterfeit. Some companies might be good, but don't be stupid and assume that China is good except for a few bad apples. It is much more the other way around. There will always be exceptions so it's moot to say "well, some are good". ]]>May 19th 2009 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/
Q: Why is mostly companies from china that make counterfeit items?
A. As thay are the only ones that can fabricate those items at a cost so low that after transporting it to the other side of the world it´s still dirt cheap. It´s not a question of moral, if a US (or European) company is be able to do it they will do it as well.]]>May 20th 2009 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/
LMAO! Yeah right.]]>May 18th 2009 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/May 18th 2009 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/May 18th 2009 8:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/
but that letter is funny all the same as its legitimacy is questionable and even if its not, well, see above...]]>May 18th 2009 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/May 18th 2009 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/May 18th 2009 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/May 18th 2009 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/slim-ps3-update-mysterious-chinese-firm-issues-a-cease-and-desi/May 18th 2009 3:24PM