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)."

Six axes?

[HunterZ]

Linear motion along six axes? Height, Depth, Width, Time and what are the other two?

Is it just me?

[GundamFan]

Or does the lower end PS3 look like it is on par with the value of the Xbox360?

With the exeption of Live(a pay service that Sony intends to compete with in the future) and a few "exclusive" game deals (on the Xbox exclusive tended to be more of a "head start") I don't think that buy buying a $500 PS3 you are giving anything up that the $400 360 has plus you get the blue ray drive... this has got to be cheaper than a 360 + HD-DVD thingy...

Anyway... just a thought... I'll wait till there are a few games out that I want to buy before I make a purchase. Dead Rising looks tempting... but I feel majorly cheeted by MS on the Xbox so I need more than that.

Blu-ray / DVD accessory

[anti-human 1]

Sony's been touting PS3 as the blu-ray machine from the beginning, and now they are charging an extra $30 for the remote to play movies? You don't buy a Media Center PC and buy the remote separately (unless the box comes with a wireless keyboard & mouse or something).

Sounds to me like someone at Sony decided to try to recover some of the loss of the manufacture of the console by selling a $6 remote for $30. Limited functionality anyone?

Re:Fire Sony Marketing

[twistedsymphony]

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.

The name is a palindrome.

[Chardish]

Who wants to bet that the logo for the controller will feature some kind of symmetry?

Price?

[Leviance]

So the price will be $42, $2 more than the basic Wiimote? Interesting...