The above designs, along with some other Star Trek-ish ones, arrived at the US Patent Office today. The above design seems to bear some resemblance to the ones we saw demoed at Sony's E3 press conference, except that they don't have that light orb glowing at the end of the stick.
These designs were registered a year ago, last June, says GoFreak at NeoGAF, so they may differ a bit from what Sony has now. But they do have something that looks like a similar buttons layout. With a stick, the diamond of four buttons, two triggers and the function buttons, this looks like half a DualShock3. Well, it's really closer to what you'd expect if Sony took a Wii Remote and did it their way. Either way, it certainly looks better than the "Magic Wands" that Sony was swinging around on stage.
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3:20 PM on 06.09.2009
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P.S.: I have gotten used to the PS3's bottom trigger buttons, but the corresponding trigger in that picture looks even more unusable at first glance.
@Naim Master
Actually the wiimote has more buttons. There's 8 on that and the wii mote has control +, A, B, 1, 2, +, -, home and that's not counting nunchuck.
I think more buttons goes against the point of the motion controls. Simple easy to use gameplay that's casually and hardcore friendly. Adding too many buttons will kill that. 8's a good number though
Nintendo's a ripoff of Atari who's a ripoff of Odyssey. In gaming, it happens.
@Christopher J Oatis: Wave of the future? I'm not so sure about that. Some people still like to play games to relax, not flail their arms (or other body parts) around widely. I'm not saying that motion controls are a fad that will soon disappear but they're not exactly going to replace traditional controls either.
But how many buttons you can actually reach in the middle of the action ? Just A , B , Z and C ; on the Sony one , all the facebuttons and two triggers ; 4 in the Wii and 6 in the Sony thingy ...
youre over estimating how much you actually move with motion controls. Theyre usually just used for aiming and QTEs. Even when you use them fully they usually only use a cheeky flick.
(lol sorry for double post)
Huh, well, maybe it works better in practice than I'm giving it credit for, I don't know.