i think thats its a fact, everyone has been calling it a re launch, not just people on the forums, in stores, best buy, everywhere, so im pretty sure its official, and i also think they arent trying to make a second impression, ithink they called it the re launch because they are going to have more ps2 out since they doubled production and are coming out with so many games, thats why they call it the re launch, not to get tha same affect as they did on oct.26 that was the begining of next generation gaming, this re launch is the big game bambozle.