Ach, Sony, what’s with you and your inability to produce some creative and inspiring names/slogans for your products? It looks like the PS3 has taken another negetive hit by the Sony marketing train, this time with the controller. With the loss of any rumble in the controller, going down the route of calling it the Dual Shock 3 is out of the question. So a rename is in order. After devling deep into Sony’s patent records, 1UP disovered the name SIXAXIS had been patented by Sony sometime ago.
Could Six Axis be the name of the PS3 controller? Aside from being as thrilling as ‘This Is Living’, it does make sense, since they’ve been pushing the controllers ‘six degree of freedom’ the controller is able to acheive with its motion sensing abilities. What does everyone think? Is it another possible poor naming choice by Sony?
Give me rumble or give me death!
I hate it that they put in that crappy axis stuff… it’ll just make games more complicated and annoying. If it was the main feature (as it is with the Wii) it might be useful, but all it’s going to do now is bug the hell out of me whenever I lean back in my chair and my aircraft suddenly flies straight up then stalls. Arg.
I hope they have enough firesight to make rumble-enabled-non-motion-sensor versions. the motion sensor novelty wont last long… especially once your friends realise they can mess up your game by bumping into you.
I hope they have enough foresight to make rumble-enabled-non-motion-sensor versions. the motion sensor novelty wont last long… especially once your friends realise they can mess up your game by bumping into you.
Yes you’re right. Just like the novelty rumbling functions, introduced by Nintendo quickly disappered
A gimmick you all want to be kept in the new controller. Or the gimmick of an analog controller, or touch screen or a Virtual Reality GB…. It’s quite difficult to figure out which gimmicks gets popular!
Any I don’t think players bumping into each other is gonna cause the motion-sensor to fail. Mainly because people aren’t that stupid and bumping so far have not ruined EyeToy, Singstar, Dance games or even games that require a normal controller…
Scott!
As a Big N fanboy to another – be fair. Sure Sony’s marketing seems strange but this was also the case with the PS2 (and it’s weird Lynch commercials), and it would seem that the marketing was quite succesful.
And speaking of stupid name products….Nintendo Wii…..W-I-I…..ahem ahem
I know that you said you kind of liked it, but is that not the fanboy speaking? I mean come on. Six axis is not a worse name than Wii.
Actually, that sixaxis thing could be really cool if implemented properly. As much as I don’t care for the company, they’re not a total bunch of asshats.
Remember the first-person-shooter genre now most dominant on the console – as in “wow – I can freelook with this thing!”.
Could be wicked cool.
But I sure as hell ain’t throwing down $600 for the thing. Waaaaay out of my pricerange.
As much as I hate to advocate unoriginality, however, I bet MS 360 sales would take off like an oil slathered Barefoot Contessa released off the side of an icy mountain slope if they implemented this kind of technology in the system (and eventually they will, I’m certain).
I thought it was going to be called the PooP?
hehehe.. i just had a really stupid, yet funny mental image of “an oil slathered Barefoot Contessa released off the side of an icy mountain slope”
but falling down a mountain doesnt exactly indicate sales going up, now does it
maybe if you put a ramp at the bottom so that the high speed fall turns into a high speed upwards launch (bet some companies wish that worked in real life – turning a fall into a rise just by adding a ramp)
I think Sony’s approach will cater even more to hardcore gamers and further frustrate the casual gamer. Having to play games the way we always have _and_ be concerned with the angle of the controller..?
@ trentors just to let you know Scott didn’t put this up. Wee did, Scott now has a few people posting stories to.
I do not mind the name. Nothing creative but it is self explanitory so I can’t complain. I have seen worse names.
Palyndromes FTW!
Palyndromes FTW!
“hehehe.. i just had a really stupid, yet funny mental image of “an oil slathered Barefoot Contessa released off the side of an icy mountain slope” ”
lol – yah, I’ve been watching that show a bit more recently. I even got up the courage to try out her authentic mac & cheese recipie last week.
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…and it’s soooooo bad for you.
Trentor: Two points. Check the author on the posts, and second, i agree with you on the Wii point. Dumb name. A must have, and I want it bad, but dumb name all the same.
The six axis control scheme “can” be an amazing feature, with or without rumble and second. Naming the controller sixaxis seems kind of stupid at first but, then I realized “I really couldn’t care less what the controller’s name is” it’s not like they actually market the controller and not the PS3 as a whole anyway. All they do is stamp an official sony logo on it and people will eat it up. I know I will.
Yeah, last time I checked they named it “P o o P” the 2 o’s stand for the 2 analog sticks and the PS3 itself…
Sure Wii was a worse name, but now we all got used to it and I don’t imagine it not being called Wii anymore.
#Rezlow & Scott.
You are absolutly right. My mistake. Sorry
Hehe yes the name has nothing to do with not wanting the machine
I want it badly to but I’m also gonna get a PS3 when it hits Europe somewhere in the next millennium (thanx Sony for always ditching us).
I think the Wii is going to deliver a very interesting gameplay experience, combined with the rock solid gameplay of Zelda, Mario, Metroid etc. But IMO the PS2 have also given me some great gameplay hours with games like God Of War, Ratchet & Clank, Jak & Daxter, Ico, Shadow of the colossus. So even though I have been a Nintendo fanboy for years, I have come to the conclusion that I can’t live with their consoles only…