Dualshock 3 VS SIXAXIS

[Jules]

Originally posted by: VIAN

Originally posted by: fanerman91

Originally posted by: VIAN
My brother noticed it a few months ago, and then told me. You only thought my statement was ambiguous because it was unbelievable.

If it's so "unbelievable," you should have explained it more thoroughly. As a reviewer, shouldn't you be striving for clarity?

I wouldn't use the word unbelievable. It's just not obvious. It's also not worth arguing about.

I didn't think the fact that the SIXAXIS is translucent was that big of a secret. But whatever.

Not all of the SIXAXIS are translucent.

 

[shingletingle]

Why is the rumble feature so popular? I hardly ever notice it when it does happen. I just don't get it.

 

[Riverhound777]

Originally posted by: shingletingle
Why is the rumble feature so popular? I hardly ever notice it when it does happen. I just don't get it.

Neither do I. Wow it vibrates, it's like my whole world is shaking! I think i'll stick to the lighter sixaxis.

 

[torpid]

Originally posted by: shingletingle
Why is the rumble feature so popular? I hardly ever notice it when it does happen. I just don't get it.

I either don't notice it or it annoys me. I still maintain that it's the most useless controller feature of all time.

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: shingletingle
Why is the rumble feature so popular? I hardly ever notice it when it does happen. I just don't get it.

its just one of those things that you don't realize how much it actually plays into the game until it's not there.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: torpid

Originally posted by: shingletingle
Why is the rumble feature so popular? I hardly ever notice it when it does happen. I just don't get it.

I either don't notice it or it annoys me. I still maintain that it's the most useless controller feature of all time.

Rumble doesn't work with everybody, that much is obvious. But for those that it does work for, it works to bring the player more into the game world, kind of another immersion factor (and why the company that developed the rumble tech calls themselves Immersion).
I personally love rumble, especially in the DS3. I actually think the DS3 has better rumble than the DS2, but it might just be because it's a sturdier build, and maybe the rumble coding is a little better. I think it's the same tech, but I think they've gotten more sophisticated in how they implemented the rumble and how strong it is based on what occurs in the game.
I always left rumble on with the PS1 (for the games that had it, I got a PS1 basically at the end of its life, was a Nintendo kid growing up but a friend who had a PS1 made me like the games on it), as well as the PS2. So when the sixaxis came out with the PS3, I think I was mostly just missing the rumble factor and games started feeling a little more dull in my hands, coupled with the flimsiness of the sixaxis.

Oh, and my sixaxis is definitely translucent. Barely, but it is translucent. My PS3 was only a month after launch, so any of you who say the sixaxis IS opaque, when did you get your PS3, and what HDD size? Maybe they changed the plastic slightly with different SKUs... and maybe it isn't so flimsy and creaky with the more recent models. Maybe they noticed it was kind of a bad build and they improved it slightly.

I've had my DS3, a white one, since November. Imported it for $65 after shipping, so I can't complain. $10 more but what, 5 months worth of playing? And basically all games that were to support rumble, either old or new, came out with the proper patches for rumble right about the time I got my controller. Been in love with it ever since.
Batter life, is noticeably shorter than the sixaxis, but still not bad. The sixaxis had a long battery life. I'd say the DS3 has a battery life comparable to the wireless controllers for the 360. And standby is excellent, of course, since it's li-ion. I can go a week of intermittent play easily, typically far longer. GTAIV is going to force me to recharge more often, but yea a normal week I might game 5 hours. I waste too much time neffing, and then theres the whole college aspect.

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[Sadaiyappan]

I had my dual shock 3 imported from Japan before it was released in the USA. I must say that it depends on the game but if the game designers did a good job there is almost a "surround shock" type thing where depending on where you get hit the appropriate part of the controller will rumble. There is also the strength of the rumble, harder hits means stronger rumbling it is quite cool actually and it really does add a lot especially to a game like Drakes Fortune Uncharted or Grand Theft Auto 4.