Yesterday's PlayStation news, all in one place

Sony had itself quite a day yesterday, effectively reinvigorating the PlayStation brand with the $300 PS3 Slim and a host of upgrades and updates to the PSP, the PlayStation Store, and PlayStation Network. Now that the dust has settled, we thought we'd throw down a little recap in case you didn't catch it all -- it's clear that the lower-priced Slim has a lot of people talking about finally buying a PS3, but we think things like PSP Minis "snackable" games and the new PS3 firmware 3.0 might be equally important in the long run. Here's the full breakdown:

Liveblog:

• Sony's GamesCom presser coverage live at Joystiq!
• Live from Sony's GamesCom Press conference (at Joystiq)

PS3 Slim and PS3 classic:

• Sony unveils slimmer PS3: $300, lands in September (updated!)
• PlayStation 3 Slim unboxing and hands-on!
• PS3 Slim sized up: smaller, deeper, no Linux or PS2 compatibility
• Sony sneaks PS3 Slim through FCC under pseudonym, 250GB model discovered
• Sony finally hacks $100 from 'old' PlayStation 3 price, starting today
• Sony announces PS3 firmware 3.0, European PlayStation Video Store, Digital Reader comics viewer
• Editorial: A slimmer, cheaper, better PS3. Was that so hard?

PSP:

• Sony announces 'snackable' 100MB Minis for PSN Store
• Sony announces three new PSP-3000 colors for Europe
• PSP Minis, Digital Comics get their own promo videos

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 26th 2009 11:41AM]

I've had a PS3 since 2007- LOVE IT- Sure I am only a casual gamer and could care less who has more games, a better live service ( I hit the bars if I need to deal with another human being) and wether it "bricks or not". However, Sony has never sold a product who's biggest claim to fame is that it crashes less often. I mean Microsoft is where it is because business folks are locked into it's office products and it's os being put in cheap off the rack pc's. The fact that Microsoft has never really sold an actual physical product (can outsourcing every aspect of producing something be called producing??) speaks volumes about how they feel about their customer base. Good for Sony. I Hope they sell em like hot cakes. Although based on some of their past success's, the consuming masses will continue to go for cheap and not better product. Btw.... I am not drinking the Sony Kool-Aid, I actually love Nintendo and keep the Wii for whenever Miyamoto (sp) puts out something else. TTFN