It was earlier this month when we heard about an "anonymous source" at Sony saying the PS3 was slow and broken.

At the time we rebuked this as bunk but apparently it may be true.

The folks at Kotaku have an interesting conversation with someone who is also supposed to be inside Sony who confirms that the PS3 has issues.

Now, this could be the same guy pulling some elaborate hoax, or it could be legit, but if Kotaku ran with it we're pretty sure it's legit.

So the lowdown? The PS3 sounds like it is slow and broken after all - components don't run to specs which could lead to a delay in the consoles release. Not only that all the hardware apparently doesn't fit in the case. Currently the only running PS3s out there are dev kits which come in a, shall we say, less than glamorous case.

And the units they proudly displayed at E3? Well they were dev kits too, but still they ran at 400 MHz less than expected.