sixaxis controller design leaked

**marcode** · 15th July 2007

http://crunchgear.com/2007/07/13/new...design-leaked/

If you mosey on over to the Official Star Wars: Force Unleashed website, you’ll see a tidbit about info and a picture of the gamebox for the PS3 and Xbox 360. You can make out two things from this image:

1. It will be Xbox Live compatible
2. Is that a re-designed SIXAXIS controller? The one with rumble features?

It could be. The biggest giveaway is the swap the d-pad had with the left-analog stick. This sort of makes the PS3’s SIXAXIS sort of resemble a 360 controller. Could this be the new SIXAXIS? Surely LucasArts wouldn’t let any kind of photoshoppery on the game’s official website. What do you guys think? New controller or weird slip-up?

http://starwars.yahoo.com/

**whatnow** · 16th July 2007

it's a shame becuase i am such a d-pad slut

now it's further out of reach. Oh well, i dont have a ps3 so i'm sure i'll get used to it by the time i do!

**ultra238a** · 16th July 2007

Bad photoshop rip off. No PS button and they ain't going to move the D-pad any time soon.

**Sanj[UK]** · 16th July 2007

old and confirmed as fake. Fix up code!

**marcode** · 16th July 2007

i find it hard to believe a photoshopped pic made it onto both lucas arts official promotional material and an official yahoo starwars site..

wouldnt somone have removed it by now if it were fake? specially as its now been fairly widely circulated..

maybe they had to redesign to fit new vibration gubbins in.. including removing the ps button..

**Mario87** · 16th July 2007

Originally Posted by marcode

maybe they had to redesign to fit new vibration gubbins in.. including removing the ps button..

no way would they remove the PS button! How on earth would you quit a game otherwise?! cos if you just eject a game disc, it asks you to re-insert it, and doesn't go back to the main menu! Only way to go back to the main menu is by pressing the PS button and selecting "Quit Game", HAS to be a fake on that basis alone!

And they've just recently (in update 1.80, I think) made it so you can super impose the XMB while watching a film by pressing the PS button, if they were going to remove it they surely wouldn't do that, and they would bring an update which got the console to return to the main menu when the disc was ejected.

**Lee Macro** · 16th July 2007

Originally Posted by HermaN

no way would they remove the PS button! How on earth would you quit a game otherwise?! cos if you just eject a game disc, it asks you to re-insert it, and doesn't go back to the main menu! Only way to go back to the main menu is by pressing the PS button and selecting "Quit Game", HAS to be a fake on that basis alone!

Thats exactly what I was going to say. If all the main functions are within the PS button, what's the point of removing it??

**marcode** · 16th July 2007

yeah, a single button operation could never be replaced some how.. never..

.. madness..

**Mario87** · 16th July 2007

I never said never! I said that they would have to do it via some sort of FW update! And that it would be pointless to add new features using the PS button (as they have currently done) if they are just going to get rid of it!

And if they do get rid of the PS button, then where on that new controller would you bring up the PS button menu?!

And do you not think they would have announced a new controller design at E3, when they also announced that rumble would be returning this year?!

**marcode** · 16th July 2007

buhaha.. man your easy to wind up.

look its a news story, maybe they are updating the controller, maybe they arent... tbh i couldnt give a fuck as the ps3 is doomed anyway.. i was just passing on a story that circulated on news sites.

blame george lucas.

**Absurd** · 16th July 2007

Jesus, fella. What is your problem with Sony? Did some bigger boys make fun of you while you were button mashing Tekken on a demo pod in GAME?

Don't you just love open minded people with a penchant for constructive criticism and reasoned arguement...

**marcode** · 16th July 2007

yeah ive seen your idea of reasoned arguments lol

**whatnow** · 16th July 2007

I blame you marcode, clearly it's all your fault.

**lithho** · 16th July 2007

heres a thought, they could of moved the ps button to the top of the pad so its out of shot, it might be a fake pic but it might not, as above who really cares any way lol, its just an interesting story, make what u want out of it

**Lighty** · 16th July 2007

I dont see the need for the recessed cross shaped area behind the Left thumbstick so I would guess its a photoshop but cant confirm that just what I reckon