The PS3 will be the heaviest console to date

[Rolf N]

I prefer measurements over estimates. Thanks
edited bits: Oh, thanks Dr Evil! Didn't see your post when I wrote mine.

And the complete 360 premium box WAS really heavy, but it got worse in our heads by the fact the cardboard box is really quite small considering all the stuff it has to contain.

Very true. I thought the DS Lite was the same weight as the DS Fat (I currently have both, right here) and had to measure them before I could believe that the DSL weighs a third less. Just because it's smaller.

People are good at estimating relative density, but not so much absolute weight I figure.

That packaging was invented by a genious, I have to say, very slickly done. I remember my NES and SNES boxes, they were filled with huge pieces of styrofoam, very primitive and cumbersome in comparison. N64 box was fairly big too, GC box, very very small. Packaging has really come a long way since the 80s...

I thought Nintendo were the masters of cardbox origami

Nintendo boxes are very crafty. But then Sony knows a trick or two as well. Last time I tried I could actually not repackage my PS2 slim inside its original box at all. I have no idea how to fit all the cabling.

 

[NavNucST3]

Why, what'd be the point? It would actually have made the whole package even heavier, considering you'd need a second casing with metal EMI shield (and in this case - fan), plus a thick power cable to connect PSU to console. Having PSU internal actually reduces weight.

Anyway, if PS3 actually weighs 5 kilos... DAMN, that's cool. I love solid heavy stuff. I wish it was even heavier.

I always knew you were nuts,

For comparisons sake my 17" iMac at work weighs 7kg (according to apple) my home 20" intel iMac weighs 10kg.

Since I'm picking up an HD-DVD (which is one big damn box) this week I think with the size and weight of the PS3, and current quality of BDRs, I am going to wait for the next version. By then BDRs should be either on 50GB discs or hopefully have moved to VC1 or h.264 for encoding and the machine will hopefully have gone on Atkins AND I will be able to pick up a couple in the stores.

 

[Nesh]

5 KG!?!?! according to http://www.playstation.com.au/ps3/

I don't think even my computer weighs that much.

Dont forget the power supply is internal.

 

[rendezvous]

Last time I tried I could actually not repackage my PS2 slim inside its original box at all. I have no idea how to fit all the cabling.

Fold the cables a couiple of times and shove them down the small holes.
I have been able to fit everything except the manuals, 2 extra games and 1 extra controller in the box.

 

[dubyateeeff]

5kg?

I should've bought a 360! I should've abandoned you a long time ago Sony! Where is the good news?

Riiidge Raaacer

Interesting fact, but aside from that, of the possible millions ps3 customers who cares?

 

[Tap In]

I've read the power brick weighs about as much as the console itself, so ....

ummm no

I've got one here but no accurate weighing method, and as Shifty said... more to do with my time.

 

[OtakingGX]

I'm assuming a couple of those. Maybe 1-1.5 kilos of Cu? That seems an awful lot though! I can't see where else the weight would come from.

That would be a lot! In fact, the raw material alone would cost $12 for 1.5 kg of copper heatsink. And that cost would only go up in the coming months. Copper is getting so expensive that people are resorting to stealing it and selling it to make quite a bit of money.

Perhaps the console has a pretty hefty Farraday cage. It should have two, actually, one to isolate the PSU from the rest of the console and another around the console hardware. I'm not sure that accounts for the total weight of the console, so perhaps there's also a brick inside to, uh, add value...

 

[Ty]

Don't you know how heavy blue laser beams are in comparison to red ones?

Just so long as they don't make their controllers weigh twice as much as well...

It's not like you lug these things around. Heh.

And I seriously doubt it's heavier than your PC. Even a super-light case like Antec's Lanboy series comes in more than that naked. (But just about that.) A Shuttle case, maybe, but they don't strike me as going for the thin aluminum solution.

Heh.

The controllers are featherlight - maybe too light, I think I appreciate the perception of something more substantial. /shrug.

Hey, just think of it as more bang for your buck!

 

[StefanS]

They should sell it per kilo

 

[cthellis42]

The controllers are featherlight - maybe too light, I think I appreciate the perception of something more substantial. /shrug.

Hey, just think of it as more bang for your buck!

Indeed, they'd make a bigger THWOK when hurled in frustration that way.

 

[OtakingGX]

Heh.

The controllers are featherlight - maybe too light, I think I appreciate the perception of something more substantial. /shrug.

Hey, just think of it as more bang for your buck!

I prefer to think of it as "more bang for your brick."

 

[Guden Oden]

They should sell it per kilo

Considering the price, I think they are!

 

[kyetech]

PS3's must be hardened against nuclear EMP attack ;P

can't have all of those connected PS3-CELLs getting fried. there will eventually be 120-150 million PS3s worldwide, that's a ****load of computing power which will be used to simulate and fight World War IV

may I ask what happened to WW III , or have i missed the point of the joke?

 

[Nesh]

Oh no, PS3 is heavy how am I going to carry it while playing it? No wait.....its not a handheld

 

[Guden Oden]

Oh no, PS3 is heavy how am I going to carry it while playing it? No wait.....its not a handheld

PHEW! I'm glad you're here telling me this because I was really starting to worry about the battery life of this thing if it dissipates so much wattage it needs 1.5+ kilos of copper heatsinks...

 

[Rolf N]

PHEW! I'm glad you're here telling me this because I was really starting to worry about the battery life of this thing if it dissipates so much wattage it needs 1.5+ kilos of copper heatsinks...

Just use the included power backpack.

 

[LunchBox]

for a console that heavy...
it should mostly be the heatsinks that's adding to its weight...
from that stand point, I'm more confident to assume that keeping the console from overheating was their priority...

 

[AlNom]

"Not only can the PS3 change the nature of gaming and entertainment, but it can also make you lose weight!"

"It's a console that screams digital carpe diem and will redefine reality as you know it. Starting with your biceps."

 

[cthellis42]

Just use the included power backpack.

MAN is that a steal at $600!

 

[nintenho]

Where's does it say on the site?