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Well, what do you know. On the very day Sony denied a redesigned PS3 was in the pipeline, images have surfaced on a Chinese gaming messageboard purporting to be leaked factory images of just that: A new PS3 "Slim" that appears well into production. Much more after the break.

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If US retail boxes are already being printed and assembled, we have to imagine this new, rebranded "PS3" -- no sign of Spider-Man font anywhere -- is coming very soon, perhaps post-E3.

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Will there be an accompanying price drop? Or is this simply a very, very well done fake? We'll know soon enough. For now, peep the vaguely illicit-looking cell phone cam images and speculate.

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