TGS 2007: Sony confirms PS3 rumble, sidesteps any admission of failure

Thank you Sony, for finally adding things to your controller instead of removing them due to stupid legal troubles.

Now...how about you make an actual new controller?

Now, for those who bought 4 controllers by now, Sony's going to force them to buy all-new ones? hoo-ray.

Aw, BFeld13, you beat me to it. Kotaku = morons.

Well, I’m certainly glad I didn’t blow $50 on a second featherweight SIXAXIS...

I wonder if Sony has officially named them yet. I remember that Jeremy Dunham over at IGN put together a list of 2007 PS3 Predictions in which he saw this coming, and he thought they might call it the “Dual Shake” controller or something. But if Sony has the audacity to charge even a cent more for the new rumble controllers, they can go to hell.

Why are all of you treating this like a bad thing? And why would a company admit they made a mistake? It seems more like a sign of weakness to me. People wouldn't repect that, they'd give them the same amount of shit for being wrong in the first place.

Cool. Now Sony can remove the stupid triggers on the controller for better ones. They're so bad.

They should of just copied the 360 controller all the way. I mean, they stole that guide button from it.

360 controller is the most comfortable controller ever, guys. TRUFAX. Anyone disagree?

Why does it take em 6 months to deliver those rumble pads to places outside Japan? The US/Europe version is pretty much identical with the Japanese one I assume, so what`s the deal with the holdup?

Maybe instead of "DualShock 3" they'll call it "SixShock". They can justify it by multiplying 2 ("Dual") by 6 ("Six"). MARKETING GENIUS AT WORK HERE, FOLKS!

@ Nex:
"Like your 60 year old father who was raised in a small midwestern town before enlisting in the military, seeing combat in Vietnam, losing a thumb to a mishandled shell casing, and settling down to raise two children with his wife of twenty five years, Sony is completely unable to admit any failure."
It's like you know me so well... :(

OH, NOW I GET IT! Litigation = Failure.

*rolls eyes*

Now LAIR will be even awkward to control.
"Jesus Christ all this shaking is messing my motion controls!!1ONE"

How dare anyone speak badly of Crecente and his golden hair palace employees!

Much love for Kotaku.

I am going to be posting a cblog about this tomorrow. It fucking pisses me off that Sony does this fucking bullshit. I hope they aren't surprised when they only have 15% of teh video game market worldwide in 3 years. Fucking retards.

Well, I wouldn't say they made a mistake by not putting rumble in the first place. Their hands were tied because of the lawsuit. No, their only mistake is shamelessly spinning it as "last gen" or as a technical impossibility when just about everyone believe it had more to do with the lawsuit than anything else.

Anyway, good thing I waited (not that I have much choice in the matter; I mean c'mon, $600).

Sony have announced there new revolutionary controller!.. its called....the 80's JOYSTICK!...

so sick of the sony bashing. stop.

they will win in 09. that is the wii will topple, and bogus hardware of 360 will finally catch up to microsoft..

@namelessted: "It fucking pisses me off that Sony does this fucking bullshit."

What the hell do you care? They couldn't legally put rumble in, they sucked it up and made a settlement, then gave the consumer what they have been whining about and added rumble into the controller. How is that bullshit? Grow up children.

No, sony gave us blue ray, and i am a fan of blue ray. i wanted an hd system, with hd content in my games, and hd movies. microsoft didn't give us this, and early adopters had to pay 200 more for the blue ray. so what.

in 1 year the consoles will be priced the same, and the 360 will be using LAST GEN DVD. all ready some games are suffering due to the lack of storage. and this is part of the next gen experience..

sony was wise. what everyone fails to understand as that the PS3 is truly the only next gen system because of this. it uses a next gen storage format, with the cell a truly next gen processor that really is beyond the talent of most current gen programmers.

you cannot argue against this. sony wanted to launch the ps3 in late 2008 but their hands were forced early because of the 360 and wii, which to me are last gen console not next gen. using last gen parts.

i dont think any of the games that have come out in the last 2 years on the 360 or wii even come close the the AAA titles on the PS2. So to me, this re vamping of last gen hardware the wii and 360 is a joke, 360s, wow 4 out of 10 break. bah. wii, gimmick games that lack depth. gears of war is a pc game to me. this game is last gen pc spec non sense. whatever.

next year, and the year after, with games like final fantasy, and metal gear, we will finally see true next gen gaming. sony doesn't have a thing to apologize for. the media's short sighted bs, and buying into the diversions of the 360 and wii are bs. seriously those systems are not next gen, its dvd based games, dvd is what the ps2 uses.

to use a prison analogy:

sony has gone from being the king of the cell block to being just another shower bitch.

nintendo? a lifer who snatched power back with a whole new hustle...

microsoft? a mob boss who's still ruling their empire...from the inside! BA DA BAH BA BAH!!!! (Horn blast here)

sega? lost use of legs (and balls) after a vicious shanking by the once mighty sony...

and sony...

wearing autumn-sparkle lipstick and awaiting early parole in 09....also has the hiv.

BAH BAD BAH BAH BAAAAAAA (OZ STYLE Horn blast)

@Brain

Everyone else settled their lawsuits with Immersion, WTF was Sony's problem in meeting a deadline. Oh right, they didn't wanna pay. Well, that worked out well for them, didn't it? Settled for what? $109 million or something? Instead of cleaning up their mess early like everyone else, they dump half-assed technology with a statement that the technology in their previous controller was inferior to what they had now. And in addition to that, they also stated that Rumble and the motion controls were not technologically feasible.

???

Yeah...

@hex

Fuck your bullshit about DVD not being HD. I've been playing HD games for years on my PC. They came on CD's back then.

Sony's "wisdom" in forcing a consumer to install 2-4 GB of that content to the internal HDD to buffer playback. Wanna guess what that 2GB of Heavenly Sword might be? My money's on those precious HD textures needed to make the pretties in the game.

I'm sorry you won't get to enjoy any of the fun games on 360. I'm sure everyone here including myself would surely enjoy ripping you a new one in Bomberman, COD4, or Gears.

Show me this "next-gen" game you brag about so much. Everything I've seen on the PS3 looks equal or inferior to the 360. See, I've got all 3 consoles. I don't see the difference. I bought the PSTripahz for BR content, and the occasional game. Why? Because my eyes don't see any damn difference. Why did the precious Heavenly Sword, that's a BR game, clock in at 6-8 hours if the heavy duty BR holds 50GB? You'd think they'd wanna give us some content on there. I'm pretty sure I'd be a bit bored soon enough.

I've seen every title Sony's put out on the PS3 so far. Nothing's hit that high water mark you brag about, with "next gen" Resistance runs at 720p. The story is a different (in location and story) version of what happens in Gears, since both are man vs alien FPS.

Heavenly Sword is an overly long demo.

Ninja Gaiden is an upgraded visual version of a last gen game.

Warhawk is probably the one title I can't rip on much. It's basically Battlefield though, which has been on every console, save Nintendo.

What's your point about next-gen? Storage? Bah. Pointless. Anything they can't fit on a DVD can be put on a 2nd DVD. You're clearly a Sony Fanboi. Remember all those J-RPG's that came on 80 CD's? Like that, but with better visuals.

Graphics? Bah. That's in the eye of the beholder, especially when you can't release a 60fps version of a cross platform game that's better looking on an "inferior" console.

Sound? Maybe so. That Dolby HD does sound pretty sweet.

After all the 'Playstation - The Third Place' adverts, I find it highly amusing that Sony really are in the third place this gen.

Hex you retarded you just explained yourself because in the end...

PC > PS3. Oh and COD4 probably won't come out until sometime next year since everyother damn thing is pushed back.

Oh boy my hands can vibrate again..

Will it make more games come out?

@hexfix

"125 million ps2 users still. 10 million wii, 10 million 360, 4.5 million ps3. dont make me laugh, most of those 125 million ps2 owners are waiting for the good stuff to come, and most of them will buy the ps3 by default brand loyalty from loving their ps1 and ps2 systems which sony truly delivered on. "

Negative. Most of those are average consumers, who will buy whatever is the reigning console system. That is the Wii, oddly enough. Not my cup of tea, but there it is.

And past the Wii, it's not either of the other two systems. It's the DS.

I love how an article on the PS3 finally getting rumble somehow turned into a giant fanboy rumble.

Good times.

I've never heard the word Next-Gen used so much before...

FAILURE!

I can summarize everything this post is about :

Hexfix is an ignorant ass.