E3 2006: Redesigned PS3 controller unveiled

PS3 News | To the surprise of nobody (though to the possible annoyance of Nintendo).

Sony has officially revealed a new controller for the PlayStation 3. And whilst we're yet to get our hands on an actual image of the new peripheral, reports coming live from E3 suggest the design is largely similar to that of the PlayStation 2's DualShock, though with one crucial difference - the PS3 pad will boast a - dare we say it, rather Wii-esque - motion-sensitive feature that allows players to control games through turning and twisting the controller in their hands.

Speaking at the conference about the controller, Sony head honcho Ken Kutaragi explained that the new pad would come with "6 degrees of motion-sensing movement" and would be lighter than PS2's DualShock. And to demo the capabilities of the new controller, SCEE's Phil Harrison took to the stage to play on the forthcoming PS3 flight sim/fighter, Warhawk. By twisting and turning the controller in his hands, Harrison managed to pull off somersaults, flips, barrel rolls, lightning-quick turns and all kinds of other fancy moves in his virtual jet, before nonchalantly landing the ship on a ledge. We can almost feel the tremors of outrage emanating from the Nintendo fanboy community as we type.

Looks familiar...

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53 Comments

David

6 years ago

JimDash360 wrote

losing rumble will hurt. After all these years with rumble technology, and the latest doesn't have it?

To be fair, Nintendo dropped rumble last gen, and I didn't miss it because the trade off (wireless) was so worth it.

mrcivic

6 years ago

That's all I have to say. Thank you.

ObsoletE

5 years ago

well, rather than make a thread no one will care about, you can all ignore this one again.

Immersion has offered to look at adding rumble features to the PS3 controller on the proviso Sony drop their appeal.
Linky

apparently Immersion believe that since the rumble operates at a certain frequency, the motion sensor should simply only require a filter to this frequency and voila, motion sensor and vibration in one nice hand shaped package.

i did kinda wonder about this, but figured it was more to do with the lawsuit (it's omission i mean) than anything else.

so who thinks Sony will accept?

DancesInUnderwear

5 years ago

Who knows, really?

I would hope they would go through with it (or put a rumble in there somehow, whether its with Immersion or not), but are Sony worried about the rumble enough to spend more than $90 million on it (even though they'll probably lose the appeal anyway)? I'm not sure.

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