the ball controller? lol thats funny looking one i know my friends would have a field day make fun of that and the boomerang one, personally i would take the one thats in the picture of the article i like that one the most then the grill
I actually liked the boomerang, mainly because it looked more modern so suits the console better. The current design has been used since the playstation 1 so in the gaming world that's ancient architecture.
That third picture is slick! That truly would have been awesome to have that slick looking console nect to my entertainment center. I love the PS3 design as it is but that pic would have been a very acceptable console.
You guys are all wrong. The third, fourth and fifth pictures are prototypes of the PS4 code-named "casual"
It will come out in a couple more years, but the technology will have only have advanced one year on from the PS3 (1.5x PS3) It will cost $100 dollars to manufacture but will sell for $250 and it will come with a headband controller that supposedly works off your brain waves, but in real life doesn't actually work as well as the advertising lets you believe. You'll end up controlling it by raising and lowering your eyebrows.
BUT two and a half years after it's released Sony will release the "headband plus" peripheral that will ACTUALLY read your brain waves.
Although all the major 3rd party developers will leave Sony because the machine is 4ss and they want to create "next" gen games on the other systems. Don't worry! Sony will support the PS4 "casual" releasing all its big name games with cartoony graphics in the first one and a half years. Even though there will be shortage of games after that there will be a few third parties that also offer games with cartoon graphics, but - hey - the system will have more mini game compilations than you could ever dream of!!!
I wouldn't of mind playing with the boomerang controller. Might of felt good with the big curve on it. Guess I'll never know. I like the controller they have always used anyway tho. Really I can't think of a controller that I have not liked except for the d-pad on the 360 controller. Everything is fine.
They intended to ship the boomerang controller until Nintendo unvieled the Wii and they had to start all over from scratch. Quickest thing they could do was use the old controller and add the parts they wanted for MS(motion sensing). Had Nintendo never shown the Wii remote and gotten such a huge response, Sixaxis would have never seen the light of day.
@above: awesome idea, I think you should put a patent on it. A controller that can take on any shape, you can sue Sony later when they start using it for PS4.
Probably the last thing you would want to hold when pissed off at a game, a ball... Atleast there is a chance the boomerang may come back to you after you throw it.
no no it was some time around 2004, WAY before the PS3 was officially announced. There were a couple of PS3 concepts and one of them (a picture) showed some kind of box standing on 4 metal legs and projecting a hologram
the second image down that shows what the game disks would look like.... Thats an XD Disk that Sony uses for their professional XDCam video cameras. Its what we use at work and are very very nice. Really fast access and re-writable. They hold about 29 Gigs if I remember correctly
Why o' why didn't they change the d-pad to the one pictured in the first prototype controller photo. They could have kept the overall look of how it looks now but changed the d-pad.
Try playing a fighting with a ps3 controller for longer than a hour and a half and you'll see what i'm talking about. How the buttons is designed they take a toll on your fingers with extended play.
The only issue I had with the boomerang controller was from the pictures I saw with someone's next to it it seemed extremely small for my hands. If it was about the size of the current PS3 controller then I would have been all for it.
I signed up for this site about a week ago and I already think pp is the dumbest person on the internet. Coming from someone that used to play world of warcraft, that's an amazing feat.
The thing I don't like about the boomerang controller are the face buttons which are rounded like the 360 ones and I hate it like that and the D-pad would have been kinda arkward at that angle but oh well thats my gripe with the controller but I love my DS3 so im happy with taht.
because they don't work well comfortably. After 2 hours of playing you probably would have to stop playing because of your newly formed arthritis. They may look cool but not work well.
The current design is perfectly practical and the important thing is, of course, the actual functionality and performance - but looking at these does make me feel that the design could perhaps have been a bit more interesting. Mine is pretty much hidden under the TV stand.
I guess that the practicalities took centre stage (which is fair enough), with a case that would fit the hard drive, angular circuit boards, blue ray drive etc - then they made the case shiny.
Would have been interesting to see what you would get if Sony did the internals and Apple did the case...
haha yeah...that white tower thing looks like a Wii and a netgear router had seks...
that ball thing is nuts though...glad it didn't make it I guess, but would be cool to see a real version of that idea...
none of those look better than the final system though imo...I really like the PS3 when standing up right...similar to the original PS2, but better in every way...the second pic (i think) with that drawer that slides down was kind of cool, but the rest seemed pretty nintendo'y...
How many generations are sony going to fail to innovate with their controllers?
For gods sake, OFFSET THE STICKS!!!!
They were initially TACKED onto the PS1 pad. Not designed, Tacked on! Design a pad from the ground up with analogue sticks next time (if there is a next time) sony!
U know i like the third picture more than the final product.But the circle controller was so LAME.... :/
These were fan made. All except the boomerang.
WTF ball control
i actually liked the boomerang..
The pad is lame, i thik sony should never change the ps3 pad.It should forever remain the same.