Sixaxis honoured with Emmy?
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People question sony's award... they MUST be sony-haters!
The problem was that it was worded such that the SIXAXIS controller, which isn't revolutionary in any way whatsoever, received an award. For what? For technology SONY all but ripped straight out of Nintendo's R&D? For removing rumble? For packing a 3 foot USB cable in a $600 package for a controller that doesn't last as long as a pair of AA batteries? For using the exact same outward design as their prior two controllers?
Heh
Why does these PR blunders always happen to Sony? I'm starting to think its actually on purpose :S
Oh, btw i checked out The Emmy winners and turns out Microsoft won something for best media streaming and for
"The Emmy Award for Pioneering Work in Near and Real-Time Fully Programmable Shading Via Modern Graphics Processors"- (i don't know why i mentioned it, but its just such a silly name for an award and i kinda like saying it
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Does anybody got any suggestion to what that award would be if we weasel it into Sony PR talk?
Why does these PR blunders always happen to Sony? I'm starting to think its actually on purpose :S
Oh, btw i checked out The Emmy winners and turns out Microsoft won something for best media streaming and for
"The Emmy Award for Pioneering Work in Near and Real-Time Fully Programmable Shading Via Modern Graphics Processors"- (i don't know why i mentioned it, but its just such a silly name for an award and i kinda like saying it
) Does anybody got any suggestion to what that award would be if we weasel it into Sony PR talk?
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What's there to question? They got an award.
That you or others may feel it was undeserved (I might well agree) or that Sony put PR spin to it is rather irrelevant actually.
That people constantly rag on sSony for every single reason imaginable - and even some that aren't - gets old however. Real fast.
Peace.
As it has already been pointed out to you, the award wasnt for Six-axis.
You dont see why people ragged on Sony for this one?
What Sony PR initialy managed to tell people was that the award was for the Six-Axis. Now there is a competitor out there, with a controlling scheme that not only is better, but its also more advanced and can do anything that the Six-axis can do. But for some reason, Sony still won that award, despite of having a worse product.
Thats like, Nintendo winning an award for "Best next-gen graphics", even thought you can say that graphics, like controllers are very subjective, anybody who is not a Nintendo ****** will feel that the award was unfair and that there was something dirty that went down.
Why you try to defend Sony in this particular thread, is beyond me.
The difference is, they didn't say it wasn't for antything "best", or did they?
You just can't do PR these days, especially if you're Sony
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Ouch, looks like SONY's been busted! It appears the emmy was actually for the old duel shock controller, and has absolutely nothing to do with the sixaxis!
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=71647
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=71647
If it was, they should get a new PR team
these people are paid to put across the company, if they can't get that right then they shouldn't be in PR. Either way you look at it - lying, an error, it still looks bad nowIf it was, they should get a new PR team
Well they still won an award......Nintendo too.....but certaintly not for Wii either
Different, not better. Better is subjective and varies from application to application
Not necessarily true. It's right to say the Wiimote can do things sixaxis can't, but we don't know for sure that it can do everything sixaxis can. In fact obviously it can't, because with Wiimote you can't apply motion + two analogue stick simultaneously. On the movement side, we don't know how sensitivity is between devices either, which may see sixaxis managing to outperform Wiimote in non-direct-pointing situations.
Again, worse is a poor choice of word. I'd say the Wiimote should definitely trump the sixaxis for innovation, but I wouldn't say sixaxis was a worse controller. Such a statement would be utterly subjective. And as this award wasn't for innovation in a next-gen controller, it's not surprising Nintendo didn't get it
One reason to defend Sony is to at least blame them for the right crime! There was a fair bit of excusing Nintendo (they don't show at CES so wont get any awards) and saying the award was bought with some old fashioned bribery and corruption. The truth was that both Sony and Nintendo got awards (so ya-boo-sucks to those who excused Nintendo with that idea
) but the awards wasn't for sixaxis.Rainbow Man
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I knew that already before I even entered the thread but thanks for reiterating already common knowledge I guess.
My point was however that just because they won an award (for whatever reason) doesn't mean they bribed themselves to it. Which is what some of the initial posters suggested.
Don't try and twist my post into a point I never argued thanks again.
I see a PR department doing..well what PR departments do. It's all pretty much the same really no matter which large corporaton you look at.
I can't be bothered to get outraged or even upset over something as small and insignificant about sony winning an award for their dual shock and spinning it into an award for the sixaxis. Especially as the two products are practically the same thing anyway with some fairly minor differences. UIf you squint a bit and don't look too closely sixaxis looks very close to the original dual sticks pad released for the original playstation.
On the grand scheme of things this "scandal" is maybe three feathers.. and three thousand feathers short of a hen.
What makes you think I'm defending anything. I'm just tired of people slamming sony left and right for baseless reasons (the bribery accusation).
I can state an opinoon can't I? But if simply pooping on Sony for any/all reasons is the "in" thing to do oin this board then I apologize and quietly bow out of the discussion. I've no interest in such.
Peace.
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