@ Aurain - Exactly. While this is -kinda- neat I find the fact that you can already just plug in a USB keyboard to a PS3 and do this much cheaper a bit hilarious.

Doesn't the ability to use a USB keyboard right out of the box make this a teeny bit irrelevant?

Damn, at least Microsoft knew to place their keypad on the bottom of the controller. It also costs $20 less than that ugly thing.

@Aurvantoid well Microsoft is selling their little keypads even though the xbox can also accepts usb keyboards.
Eventually it alway comes down to the fact that you always will find people dumb enough to buy your stuff.

do not want, I got the 360 one for $30 cheaper and it came with a mic.

50 dollah? That's fucking ridiculous.

I don't have one personally, but a friend of mine has the Microsoft keypad, and it's pretty good. It doesn't get in the way while gaming, and your hands dont have to leave the pad to send off a message if you need to.

Unfortunately, this Sony one just seems to be in the wrong place. If you have to move your hands off the pad, you might as well just use a USB keyboard.

Hookah, look at where the letters are. You would have to shift your whole hand up to type on that. The 360 chatpad you can type without moving your hand placement (except your thumbs, obviously. Why would you even make that sort of comment?)

its because someone is a fanboy who is trying to defend a shitty design to the end.

there are way too many cheaper solutions for them to really justify a 50$ keyboard... I do like the WAY it looks but... as covah said... how the fuck do you hold it? I'd rather spend 50$ other places... I don't need to chat this bad yet...

You guys are a bunch of bitchers, seriously.

Argument A: OMG, that design totally sucks!
Compared to what? Microsoft's smaller, harder to use, having to move your thumbs the same distance to use keyboard that doesn't operate as a mouse as well?

Argument B: OMG, Sony prices this shit high!
Really? I guess no one else does this, right? Like MS' overpriced proprietary HDDs or the need to buy chargeable batteries outside the usual box or the need to buy a wireless adapter outside the usual box? And I'm sure the Wii doesn't make some ridiculous money on all the crap it makes for its remotes.


Seriously, lots of people don't want to clutter their entertainment system with a keyboard, so they buy something small that can attach to the remote and allow them to text when wanted and put it away in a drawer without much hassle or clutter when they're not using it. It's as simple as that, but you guys can bitch about idiotic things like the cost and usability because you're fine with using a regular keyboard when the item pretty much then isn't directed at you.

Ugly

Expensive

Hard to use

fugly thing for $50? the 360 is sexier and cheaper too....

Christ people... anyone maybe think that the keypad was up on top because that's where the fucking USB connector is?!

God forbid that Sony might want to have it attach and work as one synchronous unit because the keypad retrofits over several buttons on the controller.

I'll get it- I have a usb keyboard, but not a wireless one, and I don't want to occupy the usb all of the time- that is the draw of this vs. the madcatz one

I don't see how it's a crappy design. Please show me a game you play where you move and type at the same time. Bottom line is that if I'm chatting, I'm not moving or playing. So who gives a shit if you have to move your thumbs up or down to type; you're not using the rest of the controller at the time anyway.

As for the price, it's keyboard + mouse + bluetooth + hot-buttons... last I checked the 360's keypad was just a keyboard. Maybe some company like MadCatz can make you a shitty one for less money down the line.

@ Quiotu

GTFO lol. mouse? where? You mean that b.s. about it using the keypad as a touchpad? Oh yea, im sure that's going to be super accurate & not burdensome or clunky. Bluetooth? maybe so then why does it need the USB port pray tell? Hot buttons? Is that supposed to make it more convenient? because sliding my hands up & down the controller or trying to stretch the thumbs up there doesn't seem very convenient.

Then the issue of it being completely off balance w/ the rest of the controller, i wouldn't be at all surprised if it moved the center of balance enough to feel awkward just by having it on. There's also the fact that it looks hideous. Go ahead shell out 50 clams for it, but mark my words check amazon's rankings of it 2 weeks after it's released (after all the automaton fanboys buy their copy) & you'll see it deeper than the Mariana Trench.

Seriously, think about it. The whole point of a keypad is so you don't have to move your hands to type. If you need to move them it would be more efficient to use a $7 Logitech USB keyboard or if you must have BT Logitech even makes a PS3 version (w/ an actual touchpad, though mouse would still be much better).

The whole problem w/ they keypad imho is that it was an afterthought since the controller was carried over almost exactly from PS2. Don't get me wrong i like the PS controller design (though personally i wish it were bigger, cramps my wrists after a while); but this keypad is just horrible.

Why doesn't everyone just stop their bitching

This isn't bitching. It's called 'making fun of something'. :)