One of a following only occurred today: either a GameStop employee only spilled a beans on an arriving Sony announcement, or someone in the retailer’s IT department has the cruel sense of humor. At any rate, IGN spotted a listing today (since removed) for the slim PlayStation 3 with 160GB of storage, purported to be shipping today for $299.99. That’s unfortunately not a case, but while we’d peril the genius enlarge is inevitable, it’d be infinitely more appealing if which brand-new hard drive came partial and parcel with the pallette barter — something in white, maybe. Hey, you can dream. It competence be worth observant which Sony’s got the press discussion lined up during GamesCom for mid-afternoon ET tomorrow; we’ll keep our German-trained ear to a ground, only in case.

Update: Newegg is right away display a same deal as above, with the projected attainment date of August 19 [Thanks, Disaresta51].