According to this India Times piece, Sony’s planning to release a fourth version of the PS2 hardware before Diwali, this year to be held on October 28.

Moving quickly to scotch talk of downloadable PS2 titles on PSN, Sony’s issued a statement saying it has no plans to do anything of the sort.

SCEE president David Reeves spoke of Sony’s belief that PS3 will eventually outstrip total lifetime sales of the phenomenally successful PS2. PS3 may have got...