PS3 Controller Officially Called 'Sixaxis' 179
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)."
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Given that it doesn't have vibration feedback, I'd say Triple Shock would be out of the question. This is really sad, because I really like the Dual Shock controller. I've found it to be the most intuitive controller of all the consoles. They took something that wasn't broke and tried to fix it.
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I can get you close. Think long and hard about Sony executives, then just say six asses. It just rolls off the tongue!
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Three D space and Six Axis (Score:2)
Seriously. Here is it
Stick 1 - X, Y, Z(press the stick)
Stick 2 - X, Y, Z(again press the stick)
Motion sensor X, Y, Z (Assuming the sensor works in 3 dimensions.)
Theoreticly it could be Nineaxis instead of Sixaxis
Re:Fire Sony Marketing (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Two birds with one poorly lobbed stone dept. (Score:4, Funny)
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 [wikipedia.org] 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...
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Marketing BS (Score:2, Insightful)
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Six axes? (Score:3, Interesting)
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you were a lonely child... (Score:2)
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Yep. Select Start. Who played "Contra" by themselves? Too easy to die.
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I thought they were changing the Konomi code just for Sony's revolutionary controller, which didn't steal the movement from Wii or the guide button from XBox360...
Up down Up down left right left right shake the snot out of it in frustration
On a side note: I would like to see a game that could figure out that you just threw the controller across the room and bring up the help system. 'I see that you are frustrated. Would you like some help with the game or cool off with a walk first?'
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How about "Velocity" and "Distance" for when you throw it in disgust during a long boss battle.....
Yes, I know, they're mathematically related.
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Re:Six axes? (Score:4, Informative)
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What's suspicious is the summary says "linear movement" along 6 axes. This could be construed to mean rotation movement is not tracked.
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Well, if one wanted to be a smartass, one could point out that the axes of rotation do not need to lie exactly parallel to the translational axes. Nobody ever claimed all six axes were orthogonal. Really though, you are picking
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Six-axis! (Score:2)
Carefully placed accelerometers might be able to solve the problem through software integration, but it's certainly non-trivial.
On the other hand, 6-axis could also have meant x, y, and 4 throttl
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Movement and rotation.
Re:Six axes? (Score:4, Funny)
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Peripheral for Uploading (Score:2)
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What about N64 memory cards? (Score:2)
The PS3's adapter can read PS2 and PS1 memory cards. How do I copy my N64 Controller Pak save files into Wii's Virtual Console?
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Mainly due to the fact that it has 2 Gamecube memory slots already on the console.
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Six? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Six? (Score:5, Informative)
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Are the six axes not orthogonal or has Sony come up with some practical use for string theory? (If the latter, I can see why it's on the expensive side...)
The PS3 will now support the Time Cube. [wikipedia.org] Your PS3 will be able to play four, er, six simultaneous games in one revolution of the BluRay disc.
Nintendo's Harmonic Simultaneous 4-player GameCube (Score:2)
Perhaps, but will it support the Game Cube [botheration.org]? Wii does.
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Simple movement through space:
Up-Down
Left-Right
Forwards-Backwards
And rotations around the three axis:
Pitch
Roll
Yaw
They're all really easy to show visually, but it's sort of hard to explain the differences with words.
I guess sony's controller can detect all 6 types of movement, but it's really only happening around three axis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6_Degrees_Of_Freedom [wikipedia.org]
The Sex Axis? (Score:2)
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Don't forget about the Italian hotties! [imdb.com]
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Is it just me? (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
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'Cheated'? In what way?
Re:Is it just me? (Score:4, Funny)
My Xbox slept with my wife, stole my credit cards, and drove my Camaro to Vegas.
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I feel bad for the people who gave it to me as a gift... and will not likely be buying or showing a desire for a Xbox 360.
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I feel bad for the people who gave it to me as a gift... and will not likely be buying or showing a desire for a Xbox 360.
You haven't really said why you felt cheated.
There were loads of really good titles for the X Box, something that would be true even if you only counted the ports from other platforms (like the Dreamcast, PS2 and PC), and of course there were some great (even iconic) console exc
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B: It was not the "most advanced system on the market" by any means... it was a computer, an obsolete one at that, yes it
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You still haven't answered the question of how you have been cheated by Microsoft with regard to the X Box. The only thing that you seem to have offered up that remotely sounds like why you might feel 'cheated' is that you seem to have felt it didn't have 'enough good exlusive titles'. That is, even though pretty much all the multi-platform titles were graphically superior and typically they had additional features such as surround sound, additional downloadble content (levels/tracks/vehicles) and of course
I actually felt the same way, but 360 > Xbox (Score:2)
A lot of it has to do with the fact that I'm a huge fan of RPGs, particularly Japanese-style RPGs. With games like Disgaea, all the Xenosaga titles, and all the Final Fantasy games (just for starters) on the PS2, it's a no brainer which console I played more.
Despite that, though, I've been pleas
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A little better (Score:2)
Well not exactly - as you noted the lower end PS3 has a Blu-Ray drive, and also an HDMI connector which the 360 lacks. Not to mention free mtach play using the online service.
So it's really a bit better.
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That is the kicker isn't it... there are some mighty tasty looking exclusives on the PS3 and not so much for the 360 and Wii, at least for me.
I think no matter what I am not going to buy a console that does not have at least 3 games I want to play.
right now the PS3 is winning but that may change.
Bingo! (Score:3, Funny)
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Great (Score:5, Funny)
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.
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Re:Great (Score:4, Funny)
Oh come on. (Score:2)
Ah well, perhaps this is their answer to the Nintendo Wii.
Obviously can't be called DualShock 3 (Score:2, Insightful)
30 hours (Score:2)
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And if the designers had any sense, they'd adopt a policy like that on the XBox, where if the main controler suddenly lost connection, the game pauses and waits for you to plug back in.
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Note from the world of people who have jobs:
You don't have to play all 30 hours straight.
Plug in cable, keep playing (Score:2)
You must have missed the part where plugging it in means it's a charging wired controller.
Presumably there will be a warning if the controller gets low on power.
Sixaxis? (Score:2)
The FEM Plate Abstraction (Score:2)
Most displacement-based structural finite element packages feature grid points that characterize motion with six parameters: X, Y, Z, RX, RY, RZ. This is because beam and plate elements are abstractions to reality that introduce the concept of "bending". Solid elements are "less" abstracted and often don't support the rotational degrees of freedom.
Just to say, using those six degrees of freedom at a point is a way to reproduce "reality" in a certain abstracted way.
Sony may be dipshits... (Score:2)
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So if these are USB and the wireless function is bluetooth, could these possibly be hacked to work as BT access points?
$300 discount (Score:2)
Then what about $500 instead?
That's how much the base console is, which has a few more things than the premium 360 pack which is only $100 less. Even an HDMI connector.
It's a NAME! (Score:2)
Let me give you an example. Here in the UK, expectant parents can now buy ultrasound scans of the child as videos. They are called '4D pictures' - which is of course sounds stupid to anyone that actually knows the 4th dimension is time. Sony's naming here is no different - they're probably just trying to equal the publicity Nintendo got when they named their next-gen console the Wii.
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An ultrasound is an odd thing. Basically you get a depth image, but somewhat different as it also has density. In order to give you a concrete 3d looking image they take that 3d (including density) image over time and take areas they know are of the same thing. While the output appears to simply be 3d the image is created using signals over a timeperiod.
sixdoof (Score:2)
Explanation: one of their brighter marketdroids included sixaxis on a short list for a focus group. Other choices of names for the new six degree of freedom controller which were NOT picked: "six doof," "sixtoy," "axis six," "funxxy," "wiiconsiide."
NATURE'S HARMONIC SIMULTANEOUS 6-DAY SIXAXIS (Score:3, Funny)
Sixaxis Creation Power,
then you are android dumb,
educated singularity stupid
and unworthy of existence -
with your death as positive.
Killing you is not immoral -
only unlawful by WiiMen.
(Yes, this is a Time Cube parody...)
Awful Name Contest (Score:2)
Microsoft should stay out of this one.
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The name is a palindrome. (Score:4, Interesting)
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Price? (Score:2, Interesting)
TO get the obligatory out of the way... (Score:2)
It's a palindr... (Score:2, Funny)
a puh... puhh...
pff, they spelled it backwards.
Why give it a name? (Score:2, Insightful)
Cutting Costs (Score:2)
What other costs would they have had to cut to put a $1000 Blu-Ray player into a console that would probably otherwise cost $300 - $400?
Also, why not let the game controller control the DVD? (Pardon my ignorance as I have never owned a PS2 or an XBox, so I don't know if those consoles let you use
Better than the 360 (Score:2)
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But the remote will look like a DVD player-type remote, which is a nice convienence.
Now if it functions like the X-Box remote that was required to play DVDs, that is entirely different.
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2) Probably not. Then again that version has more memory card slots, perhaps it would read directly (doubt it).
2a) Not everyone wants or needs one.
3) Most likley Bluetooth just like the controller, therefore no dongle (Even if IR that would be built