Originally Posted by Kenshindono Honestly this seems like a shitty ass deal to me. I was hoping they would clearance out the good 160gb models for about $125-$150 or so. I know my local BBY has an absurd ammount of them. Maybe theyll have something going on BF ^_^x KD

I'm hoping Best Buy does some "custom" bundles to clear our their existing stock of slims. Something like buy a PS3 slim for $200 and pick any 2 games. I know they've done similar things in the past.

I would like to pick-up a 2nd PS3, but don't really like the super slim.

Originally Posted by aircobra Not really surprised. Last year it was $199 as well.

that's why I believe it'll be cheaper like $170-$180 but I'd go for a $100 GC on any model vs the $170-$180.

Originally Posted by Wii Got U Has anyone else noticed that Gamestop has stopped selling the PS3 Slim completely (new, not used)? All stores within a 100 miles have no stock. You can't even order a new PS3 Slim on Gamestop.com anymore.

I've seen them in my stores new Infamous & KZ 160 bundles the key seems to be slow stores or stores that get over-shadowed by the store in the mall or better shopping center.

Man I'm thinking of selling my current 40GB PS3 for the double credit promo going on but a month without my PS3 is going to be brutal!

Originally Posted by Wii Got U Has anyone else noticed that Gamestop has stopped selling the PS3 Slim completely (new, not used)? All stores within a 100 miles have no stock. You can't even order a new PS3 Slim on Gamestop.com anymore.

Maybe they sold out .

Originally Posted by Edge . . . since the PS3's port is only a SATA 1 and you won't get much more than 130MB/S or around there out of it.

SATA 1 is just , oh, so, that's disappointing then.
Can't really do much with that.

Originally Posted by Wolfpup You *can* put an SSD in any Playstation 3 though, or any other 2.5" hard drive. I've got a 120GB Intel drive in mine. You'd want Intel's 320 series drives over annoying else on the market because of lack of trim support.

I was kinda hoping that maybe the new 16GB PS3 would be able to take advantage of the faster R/W speeds and have some feature like TRIM and garbage collection.

Still, eventually somebody somewhere will give us some disk benchmarks on the new 16GB.

Hopefully there will be a BF deal on the 2nd gen slot loading PS3. I have an original Japanese 60GB, but this Super Slim is a POS. My buddy bought one and it's so cheaply made.

awww yeeaaah...i'd be all over this.

What games will likely come with it?

I am also hoping for a slim model clearance (sub $200). I really don't like the looks of the newest iteration at all.

I'll guess they'll do a bundle that'll include LBP Karting.

Originally Posted by SpartenOmega117 What games will likely come with it?

If I remember correctly, last year the $200 160GB holiday bundle came with Ratchet All 4 One and Littlebigplanet 2. Purely speculation on my part but I assume it will be family friendly / all age oriented and appropriate stuff for holiday bundles... Then again, I believe the holiday bundle from 3 years ago was Killzone 2 and Infamous... So you never know.

I think Playstation All-Stars should be one of the games, (just guessing, don't know anything). They have Little Big Karting dropping that month too, that makes sense too. Having two new releases will be the only way I'd consider this deal, and even than, I'd still would want the old slim. Really don't want that thing to be on my shelf for show.

I completely expect a deal like this and that is why I sold my 60gb fatty. I sold my fatty and a broke xbox (I informed them that it was broke) to gamestop and I'm not sitting on $300 credit.

Originally Posted by kupomogli It won't be the 16GB model. 16GB is exclusive to Europe.

This.

I saw a 500 GB Super Slim bundle at GS with AC3, and it was $300.

Im gonna guess Twisted Metal and God of War Saga

Originally Posted by kupomogli It won't be the 16GB model. 16GB is exclusive to Europe.

No. The 12GB PS3 is exclusive to Europe.
The OP is suggesting a rumor that Gamestop could get a 16GB flash model for Black Friday at $200.

Originally Posted by diplo I think Playstation All-Stars should be one of the games, (just guessing, don't know anything). They have Little Big Karting dropping that month too, that makes sense too. Having two new releases will be the only way I'd consider this deal, and even than, I'd still would want the old slim. Really don't want that thing to be on my shelf for show.

PS AS comes like the week before BF. No way is that gonna be a free game. It'll most likely be something that came out a couple of months earlier

It will probably be the 250gb with Gran Turismo 5 XL and Uncharted 3.