μblog: engineering from the trenches

Only days after the European PLAYSTATION3 launch and people are already taking their systems apart. Unfortunately, I didn’t find any easter eggs on the PCB. The biggest problem should be in the absence of a hardware PlayStation2 emulator resulting in some controversy. I am not sure if it is apparent from these pictures that the chip is missing, so I will try to post pictures of the U.S. or Japanese mainboards if I can find them.

( Via Engadget )

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