PS3 Ready To Rumble
The rumours have been flying for what seems like months and finally, after many evasions and misdirections, they have been confirmed. The PS3 is to get a rumbling SIXAXIS controller, dubbed the DualShock 3.
Although announced at Sony’s Keynote at the Tokyo Games Show this week, the cat was let out of the bag ahead of time by EA. When reporters for IGN had a hands on demonstration of the game they thought something was slightly different about the controller they were using, it was slightly heavier and had “Rumble” on a sticker on the underside, they weren’t that surprised when the pad shook violently i their hands weh they crashed.
During the Keynote, SCE’s CEO Kaz Hirai, confirmed that the DualShock brand would be reborn as a SIXAXIS controller for the PS3, and that a number of games already supported the feature whilst others, such as MotorStorm, Resistance: Fall of Man and Warhawk would need a software update.
From the press release:
LIST OF PLAYSTATION®3 TITLES COMPATIBLE WITH DUALSHOCK®3 IN NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE
As of September 20th, 2007
The Darkness 2K Games
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Activision
Soldier of Fortune Activision
BIOHAZARD® 5 CAPCOM
Devil May Cry® 4 CAPCOM
N-Cube Creat Studios
Warbit Creat Studios
Dark Sector D3 PUBLISHER
Turok Disney Interactive
Highlander Eidos
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men Eidos
Burnout Paradise ELECTRONIC ARTS
FIFA franchise (title name TBD) ELECTRONIC ARTS
Legendary: The Box Gamecock
To End All Wars Ghostlight
RAGE id Software
WarDevil – Unleash the Beast Within Ignition Entertainment
Dynasty Warriors 6 KOEI
Fatal Inertia KOEI
METAL GEAR SOLID 4 GUNS OF THE PATRIOTS Konami
Blacksite: Area 51 Midway
TNA Wrestling Midway
Unreal Tournament 3 Midway
Wheelman Midway
Cops (codename, title name TBD) Pyro
Planet One (codename, title name TBD) Pyro
Heroes over Europe Red Mile Entertainment
Condemned 2 SEGA
Iron Man SEGA
The Club SEGA
The Crucible SEGA
The Incredible Hulk SEGA
Blast Factor (*1) Sony Computer Entertainment
echochrome Sony Computer Entertainment
Elefunk Sony Computer Entertainment
Folklore (*1) Sony Computer Entertainment
FORMULA ONE CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION (*1) Sony Computer Entertainment
Go! Sports Ski (*1) Sony Computer Entertainment
Heavenly Sword (*1) Sony Computer Entertainment
High Velocity Bowling Sony Computer Entertainment
MLB 08: The Show Sony Computer Entertainment
MotorStorm (*1) Sony Computer Entertainment
NBA 08 (*1) Sony Computer Entertainment
PAIN Sony Computer Entertainment
Rat Race Sony Computer Entertainment
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction Sony Computer Entertainment
Resistance: Fall of Man (*1) Sony Computer Entertainment
Snakeball Sony Computer Entertainment
SOCOM: Confrontation Sony Computer Entertainment
Super Stardust HD (*1) Sony Computer Entertainment
TOY HOME Sony Computer Entertainment
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune Sony Computer Entertainment
Warhawk (*1) Sony Computer Entertainment
WipEout HD Sony Computer Entertainment
GirpShift® Sony Online Entertainment
NBA 2K8 Take Two Sports
Destroy All Humans 3 THQ
Stuntman Ignition THQ
Assassin’s Creed UbiSoft
BEOWULF UbiSoft
HAZE UbiSoft
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 (*1) UbiSoft
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas (*1) UbiSoft
Prototype Vivendi Games
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena Vivendi Games
*1　 Users will be able to enjoy the rumble feature through software update.
So the devs have known for ages, and of course Sony has known, and lets face it so has everyone else. Due to ship in Japan in Novemeber and the US and Europe next spring, no price has been announced for the new controller as yet but as soon as it is I’ll be the first to let you know.
(From Kotaku.)
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