PS3 controller now a "Conceptual Design"

[barnak]

Found this thread on team xbox dont know if you guys read it yet

http://news.gaminghorizon.com/media...91500.2314.html

PS3 Controller "Conceptual Design"
If you haven't heard already, those on the show floor of the Tokyo Game Show 2005 have been quite surprised to visit Sony Computer Entertainment's booth and discover that the PlayStation 3 controller is labeled as a "conceptual design" (view photo below, courtesy Game Watch).

Apparently the company has taken the public's reaction to the Batman-inspired controller to heart and may even be reworking their PlayStation 3 controller options. We'll keep you updated if Sony decides to comment on the matter.

 

[valioso]

i thought they had the same thing at E3? or maybe I remember it wrong.

 

[Kb-Smoker]

i thought they had the same thing at E3? or maybe I remember it wrong.

yeah, they been saying that all along.

 

[BlueTsunami]

Batarang GO!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know...it grew on me. Also seeing how small the controller is has improved my perception of it. For some reason, the batarang design makes it seem BIG...when in reality its pretty small.

 

[Pozer]

yeah, they been saying that all along.

actually they only started saying it until after initial E3 backlash. They may have always intended it to be a concept design though. E3 could have just been a gage for them. Personally I think its a neat design if its comforable to use. Considering the basic PS controller is almost over 10 years old I think a change is overdue.

 

[pegisys]

I don't mind the shape so much, but the thumb sticks shouldn't be across from each other,that and they remind me of the psp stick

 

[DEO3]

I never understood why there was such backlash, I mean the most important part of a controller, is how i feels in your hand. And now one that I know has acctualy held the controller. What if it was the most comforable controller ever designed, but we'll never get a chance to use it because so many people criticized how it looked.

 

[Bobbler]

actually they only started saying it until after initial E3 backlash. They may have always intended it to be a concept design though. E3 could have just been a gage for them. Personally I think its a neat design if its comforable to use. Considering the basic PS controller is almost over 10 years old I think a change is overdue.

When it was displayed at E3 it came with a placard that said Conceptual design (or something similar). Most of the pictures just didn't include that. It was always a concept piece... Now, whether they will actually change it or not is another story.

 

[Powderkeg]

actually they only started saying it until after initial E3 backlash. They may have always intended it to be a concept design though. E3 could have just been a gage for them.

It was said at E3 that it was a conceptual design. It was latered clarified a bit when Masayuki Chatani said that the controller design is a "prototype, so there could be some small adjustments."

But I don't think a major redesign of the controllers appearance would be a "small adjustment."

Personally I think its a neat design if its comforable to use. Considering the basic PS controller is almost over 10 years old I think a change is overdue.

I can see one potential problem with it right off the bat. If your thumb is on the right thumbstick and you are using the lower shoulder button (Either one, but most likely the lower) there is a distinct possibility that the fleshy part of your hand between your thumb and finger would rest on the Circle button.

Aside from that, it does look like a comfortable design. Who cares if they stole it from the Saitek P120 gamepad?

 

[Guden Oden]

I never understood why there was such backlash

Well, apart from it simply looking terribly dumb (mutated banana), it still has the poor ergonomic design of putting the now almost redundant D-pad in the primary position for what is comfortable to use for a human. Maybe for a chimp hand, a low-positioned stick is best, but not for us. Second, it is completely unchanged compared to dual-shock; no new buttons, functions or features, unless they're internal as well as classified. Third, it's spraypainted metallic, which we all know who have used spraypainted metallic plastic items for a while (logitech and microsoft mice are a prime examples), RUBS OFF EASILY and looks like PURE CRAP after a pretty short while.

It just doesn't look anything like the console itself, it looks like something some intern tossed together, doesn't look cool, professional, interesting, innovative, and the ergonomics are questionable as well.

 

[DemoCoder]

Don't need any new buttons. Take a dual shock, swap d-pad and left thumb stick, make wireless, done.

Next, introduce a trackball/mouse extra controller you can buy which works on a mousepad surface which you can velcro do one of your thighs. The leftside of the pad has the d-pad/left thumbstick/start/menu/l-trigger buttons, the mouse has the other 4 buttons, plus R-trigger. Holding onto the leftside of the pad, with the center of the pad velcroed to your leg, you form a stable surface to mouse around.

Wow, maybe I should get a patent?

 

[RancidLunchmeat]

Oh Come on!

We all know this is just Sony backpedalling now that they've seen N's revolutionary controller and are working feverishly to copy it for use on the PS3!

 

[Powderkeg]

Don't need any new buttons. Take a dual shock, swap d-pad and left thumb stick, make wireless, done.

I would prefer a minor redesign of the dual shock casing (It hurt my hands) but I agree completely with the rest.

I think MS hit the near-prefect design. Analog triggers, thumbsticks inthe proper place, right number and location of buttons, and they finally moved those damned black and white buttons to the shoulder button position. It looks and feels comfortable, and they have a wireless version. There isn't much you can do to make it better.

 

[_leech_]

...swap d-pad and left thumb stick...

Why?

 

[valioso]

Why?

in my opinion, both sticks are too close to each other, and my hands always get too tired with the ps2 controller because of the position.

 

[Lord Darkblade]

Congratulations. Some of us like the existing configuration as much as you seem to like the XBox one, I play for hours on the twin sticks and its really really nicely positioned, the X ones seem rather out of place and uncomfortable, its all a matter of personal taste, ideally sony would make two but that would be a rather odd idea.

 

[Mefisutoferesu]

One thing that worries me about the controller is that it's rounded. What worries me is that it may be more difficult to slide your finger across the buttons, something I do a LOT in fighting games.

 

[mckmas8808]

Its a lot better than what nintendo came up with. That's all I have to say. Right now I think MS may have the best overall controller. And to think at the beginning of this gen they had the worst. Nice when companies listen.

 

[Guden Oden]

MS's controller, with the tiny little QWERTY-attachable keyboard and that stuff, is the most interesting conventional controller we've seen so far. It would seem to beat out sony's, if this conceptual PS3 controller turns out to not be so conceptual as we might have first thought, but it's still very conventional and has no new tricks whatsoever up its sleeve.

I'd say MS's controller is like haägen-dazs vanilla ice-cream. Exclusive and yummy, but still just plain ol' vanilla ice-cream when it comes down to it. Nintendo may be crazy, but at least they dared to be innovative.

 

[scooby_dooby]

actually they only started saying it until after initial E3 backlash. They may have always intended it to be a concept design though. E3 could have just been a gage for them. Personally I think its a neat design if its comforable to use. Considering the basic PS controller is almost over 10 years old I think a change is overdue.

actually they had that exact same little sign beside the controller at E3.