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Sony Preparing New Motion Controller For PS3?

N'Gai Croal and Geoff Keighley are in town, so it's time for a Five (!) Minute Warning, impressions from Nintendo's press event, a Fallout 3 appreciation festival, and Microsoft's rumoured motion controller and, also, Shane Bettenhausen announcing Sony's own rumoured controller that will have "transforming multiple configurations" that Call of Duty 5 and the highly anticipated Resistance 2 will have implementation for.

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Meus Renaissance5864d ago (Edited 5864d ago )

I think I'll wait a few months before buying a Dual Shock 3 just to get this confirmed to be true or untrue because, the negative to this story is that the DS3 just being released, the idea of another controller being released later in the year seems kinda stupid. The DS3 should have been launched with the console last year but Sony weren't able to for legal reasons, so with rumblings of a new exciting peripheral like this rumoured controller, should have come in place of this now released DS3. It's all happening with bad timing and this will probably lead to criticism that will over-shadow any possible confirmation that this new controller is coming; there'll be some with three different controllers!

Anyway, this sounds interesting - I wonder what he meant by "transforming multiple configurations".

sonarus5864d ago

I hope this isn't true. This is not the way to go sony. No need for gimmicky controllers. DS3 is fine as is

killax35635864d ago (Edited 5864d ago )

It should be very easy for MS and Sony to copy the Wii controller and more importantly the Wii games. I mean really, the most popular Wii game is Wii Sports, something Sony and MS can create very easily.

Wii Fit also seems pretty popular in Japan but I don't it will reach Wii Sports, Pokemon or Nintendog heights.

sonarus5864d ago

wii is cheaper. If sony wants to work on a casual control scheme they should do something with the ps eye

yesah5864d ago

not so sure this is a smart move. Unless its priced at like 5 bucks or included in a game or something. But let me just say, if Sony, and Microsoft both come out with wii like controllers.....well Nintendo will have to get moving

thePatriot5864d ago

If microsoft wants all the crappy third party games from nintendo wii
they can have them. ps eye is under rated. I want that tank game (draw your tank tech)

uie4rhig5864d ago

ARGH.. WOT? NOOOO... damnit.. leave it on the DS3!!!

QuackPot5864d ago (Edited 5864d ago )

And if it was true in any way, the new controller would likely come package with a specific game as an teaser for console owners to switch. That's what I'd do anyway.

As for Pseye, it will have a place in the future but unlikely as the main controller. Did someone say rumble? How do you do that with a Pseye? Hmmmmmmmmmm...?

gaffyh5863d ago

Sounds interesting, the only reason Sony is doing this is to compete with the Wii market and the soon-to-be 360 market, Sony need to have something out to compete if the 360 Newton controller is a success.

Omegasyde5863d ago

Guys,

The new motion controller might be that infa-red tech that supposingly the the new PSeye can track.

The eye focuses just on the "item" The camera its self doesn't move just if players stay within the the visual radius it will track the X and Y and Z planes of travel.

Unfortunately this idea has been on Sony's drawing board since the first ps2 camera. This story definitely deserves the label Rumor.

Positives, the item would be like a Wii-mote.
The Negative thing would be it would detect motion but no rumble. More than 2 people couldn't player either due to the taxing limitations and
errors (ps2 days).

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heyheyhey5864d ago

in other news:

Sony Santa Monica has scrapped God of War 3 to create a new "colourful" first-person shooter inspired by popular kids TV series "Power Rangers"

the working title for this project is Haro: Melee Combat Evolved

the lead character is rumored to be called Insignificant B!tch

Meus Renaissance5864d ago

A Power Rangers game needs to happen. I would so swarm all over that sh!t if it was released. Green Ranger FTW!

sonarus5864d ago

Yea was a HUUUUGE power rangers fan. I don't think i had any preference for any particular ranger though. If i had to choose though i would go with blu ranger just cus no one ever picks him

alanjp255864d ago

perhaps its a liquid morphing controller that morphs to fat hands and thin hands and long hands lol

Iamback5864d ago

i hate motion controls, not interested

xhi45864d ago

you're backward

and not interesting.

but seriously what would this look like aye, I mean they can't just scrap the original ps controller design

Iamback5864d ago

and you are nerd with no life(probably).
I am not going to wave with some crap like some nerd, i only want "classic" controls like Dualshock 3 and i am fine. Nerd can have motion dild.......

SickNick855864d ago

it was annunced some days ago via neogaf...best news to contrast wii

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Fallout 4 Xbox Series X|S Review | TheXboxHub

Richard writes: "Now was the right time to release the Fallout 4 Xbox Series X|S update. It just could have been more."

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anast12h ago(Edited 12h ago)

They aren't going to give more. We are talking about a company that has rereleased an 13 year old game at least 5 times.

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Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, Homeworld 3, and More Exciting Games Coming Out in May

Things are heating up in May a bit with Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, the Paper Mario TTYD remake, and a ton of promising indies. We pick the most interesting May games, from AAA to indie, so you can make sense of everything coming out.

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shinoff21831d ago (Edited 1d ago )

Doesn't seem to be that bad of a month. Got a bit of something for everyone.

Please do not support braid anniversary edition. Don't support Phil phish, he's a very despicable person, a a cry baby.

One example

https://youtu.be/yKUGwlFJAH...

Tacoboto1d ago

Wrong developer. Phil Phish was the developer behind Fez.

Jonathan Blow was behind Braid. If you're gonna cancel culture, don't take down the wrong indie...

CrimsonWing6915h ago

Man, I don’t know why, but it also irks me when people try to tell others what to do. Fez was an awesome game, I couldn’t care less if the dev was a douche.

This is just extra cringe since the person actually doesn’t know what they’re talking about 🤦‍♂️

remixx1167h ago

Welcome to the internet crimson

shinoff218334m ago(Edited 31m ago)

I wasn't cancel culturing shit. Phil phish is a complete douche. Did you bother to watch the video? Probably not.

I was wrong but call me cancel culture is just plain dumb also

Also crimson.

As you I'm human and we make mistakes. That was a mistake I mixed the games up. Shit happens. So go cringe yourself

Honest mistake, if you can watch that video and support the guy. Then I guess your in the same camp

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Keoken Interactive lays off majority of team after failing to find funding at GDC

Deliver Us Mars developer Keoken Interactive has laid off the majority of its staff after struggling to secure funding …

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mastershredder1d 3h ago

The industry model and standards and who's in place to approve/disapprove have changed ^ what Keoken is feeling now is much like the Mobile burst 15 years ago. Expect more to come out of your own finances. Investors are treating games like movies and now (thank$ a lot for involving yourself hollywood) only the big (and money blind) investors get involved, effectively killing a lot of content that would come out with proper non-gate-kept and/or with incentivized funding.

Markdn1d 3h ago

And when you only make a fraction of your games worth on gamepass you suffer

Tacoboto1d ago

Palworld and Manor Lords are so suffering.

RiseNShine15h ago(Edited 15h ago)

Sorry but i couldn't care less, Deliver us Mars was as woke game as they come, climate change disaster, all female cast plus only a comic relief indian guy (it takes only 5 minutes into the game for the main female character to say how smart she is compared to the guy), evil white guys, ugly females, then add generic gameplay and puzzles (how many times do you have to cut things with a laser for gods sake), you can't change anything in how the events develop so 0 agency in the story, sub par graphics even while using UE4. So well, go woke go broke, that's how it works.

Miacosa11h ago(Edited 11h ago)

That stinks but with a 68 average critic rating on their games probably made it difficult for people to invest considering there is a bloat of games getting made these days.

ROCKY287h ago

You guys will be back with team strength and funding !