September 20, 2007 at 14:56Sony Releases DualShock 3 and Delays Home
Sony Computer Entertainment, represented by its head, Kazuo Hirai, presented a couple of news at the Tokyo Game Show game fair in Japan, which is currently taking place in Japan. One, as usual, is good and one is bad.
The good news is the official introduction of the new game controller - DualShock 3, which is still the same SIXAXIS, but with a feedback function (two vibration motors inside the case), which was in the DualShock 2 joysticks.
For a long time Sony could not come to an agreement with Immersion, due to which the SIXAXIS controller, which appeared with the PS3 console, was deprived of the vibration function. Now, apparently, the parties have settled the conflict, but Sony is still trying to convince the public that the problems with the lack of a feedback function were exclusively technical.
So, DualShock 3 looks and works just like the original SIXAXIS, but it has a slightly larger mass. The appearance of the controller in Japan is expected in November, but in Europe (and Russia, obviously), the novelty will arrive only in the spring of next year.
As for games that support the DualShock 3 vibration function, the list of those even at the moment is quite large and has about six dozen titles , among which are METAL GEAR SOLID 4, Devil May Cry 4, Blacksite: Area 51 and The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. Interestingly, not only new games will receive support for the new controller, but also a number of already released ones, which can be updated through the Playstation Network service.
The bad news, in turn, is related to the Home project, an analogue of Second Life, an online virtual world that will exclusively be inhabited by Playstation 3 owners. As it became known the other day, Sony is postponing the launch of the project until the spring of 2008. The six-month delay, as explained by the head of Sony Computer Entertainment, is associated with the need to more carefully prepare the project for launch. Simply put, the guys just do not have time to meet the deadlines.
via Engadget , International Herald Tribune
The good news is the official introduction of the new game controller - DualShock 3, which is still the same SIXAXIS, but with a feedback function (two vibration motors inside the case), which was in the DualShock 2 joysticks.
For a long time Sony could not come to an agreement with Immersion, due to which the SIXAXIS controller, which appeared with the PS3 console, was deprived of the vibration function. Now, apparently, the parties have settled the conflict, but Sony is still trying to convince the public that the problems with the lack of a feedback function were exclusively technical.
So, DualShock 3 looks and works just like the original SIXAXIS, but it has a slightly larger mass. The appearance of the controller in Japan is expected in November, but in Europe (and Russia, obviously), the novelty will arrive only in the spring of next year.
As for games that support the DualShock 3 vibration function, the list of those even at the moment is quite large and has about six dozen titles , among which are METAL GEAR SOLID 4, Devil May Cry 4, Blacksite: Area 51 and The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. Interestingly, not only new games will receive support for the new controller, but also a number of already released ones, which can be updated through the Playstation Network service.
The bad news, in turn, is related to the Home project, an analogue of Second Life, an online virtual world that will exclusively be inhabited by Playstation 3 owners. As it became known the other day, Sony is postponing the launch of the project until the spring of 2008. The six-month delay, as explained by the head of Sony Computer Entertainment, is associated with the need to more carefully prepare the project for launch. Simply put, the guys just do not have time to meet the deadlines. via Engadget , International Herald Tribune