PS3 Opened For Pictures

An anonymous reader writes "As all of you surely know by now, the PS3 has just been released in Japan. What you might find interesting, however, is that among those 80 000 happy PS3 owners (or self-appointed resellers) was at least one who decided it was his or her sacred mission to crack this puppy open for a peek inside. About the article, it is in Japanese. Someone who knows enough of this fabled language of wonder well enough would do well to offer some translations, although I don't really suspect that the story is the most important thing here..."

Nice Headline

[aardwolf64]

I read the headline to the story, and then saw the pictures of the PS3. That thing looks like a flatbed scanner! Opened for Pictures indeed...

I am used

[cucucu]

I am used to surfing sites where the pictures are the important thing

Looks pretty but..

[johnlcallaway]

...how the hell are you supposed to stack anything on top of it?? Why can't engineers make something that is pretty AND functional. Including enough space for front-to-back air movement.

Oh ... I understand. Marketing got involved.

• Marketing: Let's make it neat.
• Engineer: But that takes up too much space.
• Marketing: But it's cool.
• Engineer: But it still takes up too much space.
• Marketing: To late, it's already in production

Thanks!

[blackmonday]

Hey, thanks for the circuit board pics. I just figured out where to solder the modchip!

Slashdotted in Japanese

[StewedSquirrel]

How do you say slashdotted in Japanese?

Re:Looks pretty but..

[abradsn]

Engineering: I don't like pretty or neat stuff.
Marketing: Do you like to get money?
Engineering: Do whatever it takes, I'll make it work.
Marketing: Okay, Thanks.

Google Racism?

[alohatiger]

Google translation: "Memory card leader"

Is that some kind of ethnic humor?!

If Zonk had submitted this article ....

[level4]

It seems that Sony is not content with forcing hundreds of foreigners to wait in line, in the cold rain, just to earn a few dollars for food .. now it's taunting disappointed fans worldwide by pulling apart a perfectly good PS3, taking pictures of its wrecked insides, and just posting it on the web to get page views. Is this sickening snuff photography par for the course in this godless age, and will the degenerate hoots of paedophile basement-dwellers clicking furiously from one voyeuristic desecration to the next drown out the heart-wrenching sobs of the child you know whose Christmas dreams have been forever ruined because of this soulless, wretched visual excursion into the depths of Sony's capitalist depravity?"

Looks like the PS3's actual value is about $1.50 in plastic and metal. Nicely done.

Re:Slashdotted in Japanese

[hal2814]

"Srashdotted" maybe?

Now It's Real

[blueZhift]

I guess it's not really real until someone takes it apart! Now I believe!

Re:Translated page

[MagicM]

"The HDD slot can access the user"

Made in Russia?

Re:PS3

[grommit]

Report to Zonk for re-education mister! Sony is an evil company and the PS3 is going to be a total failure and Zonk will make sure of that.

I can see the Slashdot offices later on today...

Zonk: Hey Hemos, I saw that PS3 submission you put up earlier today, about opening the case.
Hemos: Yeah, I thought it was pretty cool that it can be opened so easily and the hard drive upgraded.
Zonk: Yeah... about that...
Hemos: Hmm?
Zonk: *bashes Hemos' head in with a Swingline stapler*
Hemos: Grngh!

Re:Slashdotted in Japanese

[Anonymous Coward]

"Load averages turn on!"

"It's you!"

"How are you gentlemen! All of your server are belong to us! You are on your way to slashdotting!"

"What you say?"

"You have no chance to change IP make your time!"

"HA HA HA"

Re:Slashdotted in Japanese

[Aladrin]

Hm, almost... It'd actually be more like:

surashudotedu /nitpick

Yours is funnier than mine, though... Can't fix that and let the OCD win, too.

Translation: powdered men.

[Anonymous Coward]

"They forgot to comment on how shiny it is. You know that shiny sells."

Well then, bald men should be leaping off the shelves then.

Emulators?

[Dan East]

What I really want to know if any software PS3 emulators are out yet. I'd like to try this thing out on my Inspiron 6000 to see what all the hoopla is about. Sure, it might have to skip a frame every now and then, but I can live with that.

Dan East

Re:Translation: powdered men.

[Anonymous Cowled]

Well, I did read about an old geezer (in his sixties, IIRC) and his wife who managed to get an honorary mention in the Darwin awards - he was (probably) bald or balding and was attempting to jump off the top of the cupboard on top of his wife, who was tied up on the bed... unfortunately, he fell through the top of the cupboard, breaking both legs.

That would have been an interesting one to tell the grandkids...