Yet another rumor about possible performance problems with Sony’s Playstation 3 made the rounds this week. This time, suggesting that due to heat and other issues, the PS3 Cell processor would be downgraded, and wouldn’t match the performance that Sony was promising at E3. Today, Eurogamer got the straight information directly from Sony, and one could almost feel the dismissive tone in their words. A Sony spokesman was quoted as saying, “Developers have been working with PS3 dev kits for anywhere between eight and 12 months, and to suggest that we’d now take the decision to downgrade the hardware at such a late stage, is, well, ridiculous.” One has to wonder why the Playstation 3 seems particularly targeted for rumors and wild speculation, but realistically, the bloom came off the rose a little bit at E3 after Sony dramatically scaled back on their previous showings, and introduced the dual SKU launch and pricing. Still, the amount of attention these “some guy said” rumors is getting seems out of proportion to the weight of the sources.