IGN says the PS3 controller is poopsky

IGN UK had a play test with near-final PS3 hardware last Friday and despite commending certain aspects of the system hardware, the game site wasn't impressed with the Sixaxis controller. From the hands-on: "Personally, we can't help but feel that the SIXAXIS (as it's now known) has been sadly neglected when viewed alongside the rest of the PS3. Compared to Microsoft's uber-comfortable Xbox 360 pad, the SIXAXIS feels cheap, plasticky, uncomfortable and disconcertingly light - almost as if it's going to fly out of your hands during those more extreme gaming moments."

[LAWMAN]

Also, if you are going to editorialize, then find a better word than "poopsky."

[power of Green]

You must be "pro" Duel Shock.

[LAWMAN]

It's better that that horrid orginal Xbox controller, and I'm not a fan of the 360 controller. Dual Shock 2 is the best for me, but it all comes down to opinion.

Oh, and you used the term "Most people" I presume you have a cite that has some sort of statistical research to back up this claim. If not then you are likely just another fan boy that likes to go off on tangents rather than back up your posts with facts.

I have never had a problem with the PS2's analog, in fact I think it's much better than my 360's. Again, a matter of preference. But I believe that if M$ came out with a pile of dog crap, POGII would say that it's better than anything in the world because M$ can do no wrong.

[power of Green]

Most people that used the Xbox1 pad(the small one) and the Duel Shock game pad know's the Duel is one step above SNES's controller and the quality of the anolog is piss poor and the layout of the buttons is SH*TTY, Sony did say that they worked on the poor anolog but no ones talked about it so maybe they didn't.

[daboosa]

its in the Bio of the controller and the buttons are more sensative

[FireAss4ssin]

old news, why do people feel the need to repost?

[D3acon]

They didn't think to highly of the ps2 dual shock, so if you like the current ps2 controller then it follows that you might as well like the sixaxis.

[ASSASSYN 36o]

Poopsky hahahahhaa!

[DJ]

Why does Power keep spelling it as Duel instead of Dual? The analog sticks are great, the button layout is great. I don't see why you just suddenly started talking crap about after months of being on this site.

It's funny that people were pissed about the boomerang controller without having even touched it, and then when Sony listened to their whining and went back to the old design the same people were still pissed.

Goes to show that you can't please everyone.

[Bhai]

...tame Sony down...do you remember Square Enix said 'they do not want Sony to be the overwhelming winner this time around too' ?! they defined the entire dark publicity in this one sentence.

For sure Sony is going to be the victor this generation too, but if devs, media, press and critics don't calm down the utter beauty and attraction of PS3 this time too then its bye-bye for any other console to ever appear in the market other than Sony's. PS2 simply butchered Xbox and Gamecube the last time just as PS1 did N64 and Dreamcast...now if 360 dies, the competition on the whole will die and they think that the industry will grow no longer. That is why they are so much b*tching around, the very controller they loved at TGS is whayt they are hating now.

Sony has delivered on all fronts as promised from blu-ray to online, from HDD to motion-sensing, from procedural-synthesis based games in the launch lineup itself to their CGI like beauty...everything is there...but no, they just want to bring down a little piece in the end of all the talk. Funny thing is that, although how much ugly Xbox controller was, it wasn't b*tched about much...the reason ?! they wanted that POOP to exist so that their business continue to grow. Well, Sony is an untameable beast, and yeah Xbox had to commit suicide...finally !!!

[zypher]

Joystiq only comments vaguely on how ign actually praised the rest of the system. but they decide to focus heavily on the only negative thing about the article. whats funny is there's really nothing to worry about. while it seems that ign themselves never really liked the Dual Shock, they did say that the Sixaxis is pretty much the same. so, that they compare the Sixaxis (still a sucky name) to the Dual Shock is a good thing...at least for most PS2 fans who also liked the Dual Shock

[macncheese]

What about rumble response? Do you care that they chose not to include it? Agree also the name sux.

[Bhai]

...well, most of the people don't, I've never read even a single review the whole 5 years of current-gen and the whole past year after 360 launch that mentioned rumble making any difference in the game experience...yeah some were 'dependant' on it like Fatal Frame or MGS, but absolutely NONE other. So no, I've never found one guy who said he's getting the console because the rumble feels so good, when there is Kratos...there are people, when its Dante...here are the fans, when its Tekken...there are players, so really rumble doesn't even start to exist in console-buying decision. People will always get the systems for their beloved games, with or without rumble !!!

[zypher]

personally and honestly, back in the days of the N64 rumble-feedback was a concept that at first i abhorred. i thought it detracted from the overall experience of the gameplay. but i soon buckled down and dropped the cash for a rumblepak. it took some time for the feedback to grow on me, but it did nevertheless. i think it's a great feature, but--being honest--i can live without it. half the time when i'm playing my PS2 or 360 i don't even notice when my controller rumbles. as it stands i'd probably rather have rumble over motion-sensing, but thats simply because the Sixaxis hasn't been released yet. i'm quite sure that given some time to see how motion-sensing actually feels, it'll grow on me just the way rumble-feedback did. my only concern with the Sixaxis at this point isn't the lack of rumble, but rather the fact that the controller is light. the original PSOne controller was cool; but when the heavier Dual Shock was released i thought it was god-send in comparrison due to its heavier weight.

[power of Green]

Yah! you guy's are right The Due(a)l Shocker doesn't suck ass it's a wonderful controller(?). I can understand if you have never been wing-ed off the Due(a)l Shocker you wouldn't know the difference.

[THWIP]

...but I have to draw the line at "wing-ed".

It's WEANED, you f***ing idiot!

[Optimus Prime]

not that comfortable to me. but i can use it. i think the 360 is the best. this controller is a little to cramped. but i still like it.

[Retard]

Whats the 1-4 (Guessing channels?) Isn't it suppose to be 1-7? (Right?)

And this is SONY's controller packaged with the PS3, correct?

[Tut]

I assume you mean the lights on the top of the controller. In that case, they represent what controller port you are plugged in to. In theory, you are correct it should be 1-7 and not 1-4. Sony is clever though and implemented a mathematical system that will use a combination of lights to notify you if you are holding controllers #5-7. For example, if you have controller #7 then the #4 and #3 lights may be lit at the same time or the #4 and #2 lights for controller port #6.

It is genius.

[Retard]

wow didn't think that far ahead.

[THELANDSOFSAND]

i think the technical term is 'Poopski'

[drewdrakes]

People spell things differently, im from Canada, a lot of words are spelled differently, some spell it "check", we spell it "cheque". I agree with the guy that said Dual Shock controllers are like the SNES controllers, in fact thats why I bought one for the PC (a look-alike). But, its incredibly uncomfortable when using the joysticks. I prefer my 360 controller for everything else, which is why i bought an extra wired one which can be used in on the PC. The 360 controller is sooo comfortable. But cant wait to see the Sixaxis, may be an improvement.

[Tut]

Yeah that is true but in this case it is just a lack of knowledge from "power of green II".

Duel is a formal combat between two people.

Dual is something consisting of two parts. In this case, the controller has two joysticks.

[power of Green]

And #12 has it right matter of fact you're both wrong and right. My brother has an PS2 and it's what we call it because of the fight to use the dam thing, im not from Canada but we do Spell/call it different in my ring of family & friends. Come on bro the spelling of the controller is everwhere. lol

[TheMART]

Ofcourse Bhai, blame the competition for the things that Sony screws up???

Strange idea's you have mate.

The controller stinks. IGN thinks so and I've read other reviews about it that were negative. And that's not the only thing.

No one is 'backing up' 360/MS so the competition survives. They are giving MS/XBOX/360 positive feedback because it's the better product, the better proposition, the better programming environment and like this Christmas will be the best selling system.

Oh yeah and indeed: the 360 controller is really nice, especially compared to this upgraded PS2 controller that's too light because the rumble engines are taken out.

[The great 1]

Is this guy is trying to make this Xbox has christmas thing look like it's beating Sony, it's not Sony just has less consoles to sell, |Sonys sell ratio will be better and come christmas 2007 then wqe will see who is selling best and i can assure you it will be Sony, no.1!

[Bhai]

...I'm not blaming anybody up, no way, while you read the folks apppreciating 360, the very same folks find PS3 better than that, yeah all from GameSpot, IGN, 1UP, GamasRadar...and every other who got a hands-on even before launch say that about PS3, from its uber silence to the fresh disc-entering approach, from 'video-chat' in Resistance to online-ready downloadable e-distribution games...every thing is Uber in PS3.

And you have to agree, that its the consumers who decide the war, and they chose PS2 in the current-gen so no way Sony screwed anything up, well Xbox was there because of the very existance of Sony...that way Sony actually helped growing the market...after that buddy, there is pure competitiom...if your system brings enough cost-effectiveness, then its your system that takes the prize...ain't that correct. This has been proven with DS, and was not attained by Xbox, it simply lost !!! consumers won with PS2 and yeah it was consumers who found PS2 the most cost-effective device !!!

With PS3 we're seeing a similar approach again, there is 360, a whole year ahead of PS3, MS has the only bets on middle-ware, why is MS not making a great system specific engine to really show-off their creative power and console potential even after a 15 years experience of software and tools development ?! Why ?! Why is it that only having hardware experience Sony entered games business and is making games that are market standards of their times ?! strange things you see ! Is MS in console stuff only for business so that they may not loose the market share and so the interest in their OS(Windows) on the whole?! are they still doing the same things they did last time and failed with making only core games and leaving the entire world in question ?! Didn't Bill Gates lie when he said that they will be the market leaders this time around and at the same toime saying that if they failed again, they'll play again !!! clearly they have no trust upon themselves forthey are in learning process !!! and yeah this christmas season 360 will only sell if Sony doesn't make it upto 2mill. mark !!!

[TheMART]

THe consumers didn't really 'choose' the PS2. It was forced on them. Sony lied about it and therefor Dreamcast failed (lack of money). Then the PS2 was there alone to sell.

No competition untill XBOX came. It had such a headstart by then, that the userinstall base did the rest. Unless it was the worst console around in graphics.

This time around it's 360 having a headstart.

"why is MS not making a great system specific engine to really show-off their creative power and console potential even after a 15 years experience of software and tools development"

I can't follow you on this one. The industry/developers said the programming environment from the 360 is like heaven and the PS3 programming is lame and therefor 5 times more costfull. MS did the greatest job ever on this one.

And what shows it off? For example the new line of games, with Gears of War in the front lines.

Nothing like that out there. I saw it again this night in a gameshow called GameKings overhere. They were flabbergasted and are not fans of one console, they judge all. They plain simple said: this quality is only on 360. Nothing on PS3 can get there what we've seen from titles now and upcoming.

That should say enough. MS did a splendid job and there will be more games like Gears of War the coming time. Like Bioshock also!