Dave Karraker from SCEA recently responded to the mostly confirmed rumors of a rumbling Sixaxis controller by stating, basically, no such controller exists. He did confirm that better motion-sensing controllers were in the works, but downplayed it as more of a controller update than a new controller. He said that "[Sony] recently sent out to the development community some new prototypes that have a slightly enhanced sensitivity for the analog sticks and the motion sensing within the Sixaxis controller ... This is not a new controller, but is part of the normal development and evolution of controllers."
While this may seem disheartening, this may be a PR tactic utilizing semantics. Rumble, as far as controllers are concerned, involve rotating hammer weights, causing the controller to shake. That feature
is not coming to the PS3. But Karraker might have been dancing around the word rumble, when the proper term is TouchSense technology. Know what we're saying? Of course, maybe we're wrong. But we like dancing, too, Sony!
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8-03-2007 @ 10:08PM
Steve said...
Sony beats around the freaking george bush too much. It's a yes or no question.
They lie to us now, get us all pissed off, then take us by storm in 3 months.
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8-03-2007 @ 10:28PM
Stef Geiger said...
Take it with a grain of salt.
I'm sure he's just saying that because it'd be bad business for them to admit there's a new better controller coming - it'd hurt sales till it came out.
And I'm betting (and praying) that the controller DOES indeed have rumble in addition to touchsense.
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8-03-2007 @ 10:48PM
MYPS3KilledMy360 said...
stop it with your lies Sony! devs say they already got a hold of the rumble controller.
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8-04-2007 @ 12:18AM
Bluebrake said...
Where's that picture of Valerie in The Princess Bride screaming "Liar! Liaaaaaarrrrr!"?
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8-04-2007 @ 12:42AM
John said...
That is funny, Nick. We're sitting here with our mouths agape, going, what no rumble? And it's like, yep, no rumble. (Nobody asked about touch sense)
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8-04-2007 @ 1:07AM
Dahk said...
Yeah Stef gots it right. They wouldn't annouce something so early =P I'm itching to grab 2 more controllers, yet i'm holding on to my shameful 2 controllers. I need it when warhawk hits the road :S.
So I guess this announcement is supposed to justify me pitching out another 120 bucks (CAD) for 2 controllers. But nope. I need my touchsense! I'll hold off until Leipzig. Or maybe even TGS.
Plus they denounced PS3 price drops 2 days before they announced it =P
Maybe thats the delay for Lair?! Or... heavenly sword? (like... 1% chance of happening though) Or devs just got it for GTAIV and are owning up touchsense for 2008 release? Haha. Dancing around rumours are fun.
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8-04-2007 @ 12:31PM
ryano said...
i agree with 2.Stef Gieger:
which i can be accused of since i'm waiting for the new controller to be packaged before i purchase one! :)
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