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PS3 Controller Officially Called 'Sixaxis'
morpheus83 writes "Sony has decided to call the PS3's wireless controller 'Sixaxis' as it has sensors which allow it to sense linear motion along six axes. The Bluetooth controller charges when connected via the USB cable, after a full charge it is good for 30 hours of gaming. It becomes a wired controller when charging so you can continue playing." The Next Generation article also offers some further details on PS3 accessories: "Sony will also sell a memory card adapter used to upload data from PS or PS2 memory cards to the PS3 hard drive. That peripheral will go for 1500 yen ($13) and will be available at launch as well. A Blu-ray/DVD movie controller will also be in the accessory mix, selling for 3600 yen ($31)."
Spin and Flavor.
The other two are curled up infinitely small.
I think they're dividing each axis into 2 - instead of x y and z, they have forwards, back, right, left, up, and down. So technically, its actually 3 axis.
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3 rotational axes(pitch, roll, and yaw) and and the 3 regular axes(x, y, z).
Close, it's actually up up down down left right left right B A start.
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Translation in three axes, plus rotation in three axes. Not sure what the problem is.
Sony Exec 1: Ok people, we're naming the controller "PooS". That's an infinity sign in the middle
SE2 through 12: Brilliant!
Everyone else on Earth: Poos?! Sony is retarded.
SE1: PooS didn't test well. We'll need a new name.
SE2: I still want the batman-style controller...
SE1: Shut up. Names, people.
SE7: Dual Shark?
SE4: Uhhh, "Weemote"?
SE9: Sticktwiddler.
SE10: Thumbtron!
SE12: iStick.
SE11: Guys....Sixaxis
SE1: Done!
Everyone else on Earth: Six asses?! Sony is retarded.
The controller is just a single button, but you get to play a character with six arms who wields six axes.
Is there an engineer in the house? Six axis implies movement along X Y and Z as well as rotation about X Y and Z. The "shock" in "dualshock" refereed to the rumble feedback, seeing as there is no-longer any rumble feedback it'd be silly to still use the shock title (hence why many journalists started calling it "dual shake". Also sixaxis has the marketing benefit of reading the same when spelled backward, which plays along with the symmetry Sony seems to feel is terribly important with their controller designs.
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Sony isn't going to use force feedback vibration because of their suit with Immersion so calling it the anything-shock without changing the feedback to being an actual shock would be out of the question.
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They also saw the buzz that Nintendo was creating with their accelerometer based revolution. So a quick implementation of this into their current controller designs gives them a new tout-able feature (ooh... the Sixaxis) and a lame excuse about why they can't implement vibration. Sorry, we had to remove vibration from the controller because it interferes with the motion sensor despite the fact that the Wii-mote will have both. Actually the Wii remote can rumble both sides giving it two vibration motors as opposed to just one in the Gamecube; maybe they should call it a "DualShockWiiMote"
Anyway, I'm glad that Sony was able to quickly implement accelerometers to make the Sixaxis controller. I would've hated to hear the alternatives coming from Sony's marketing department...
"Bundled with the Playstation 3 is the exclusive DodecaClick3 controller. It has a whopping twelve buttons which is much more than at least one of our competitors. Imagine the games that can be created tot take advantage of this."
Although now I kind of do like the idea of kids yelling "Mommy! Mommy! I want a DodecaClick!" Hold on a sec while I trademark that...
Who wants to bet that the logo for the controller will feature some kind of symmetry?
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