14 DAY TRIAL // Sony has been severely criticized for not adopting rumble for their latest machine's controller, the SIXAXIS. The company has gone through lawsuits and deals as high as the sky, but more recently, Sony has finally confirmed implementing rumble in the SIXAXIS. The upcoming Leipzig Games Convention in Germany, might just be the place where they finally show the revamped controller, thinks Gamersquad.com. You'll soon see why.
According to the respective site..."The much-maligned lack of rumble in the Sony PlayStation 3's SIXAXIS controller could soon - perhaps - be coming to an end because, according to InnerBits, Sony has started to ship prototypes of the new force feedback-enabled game pads to developers. [...] InnerBits also reports new versions of the SIXAXIS controller are slowly replacing those originally shipped with the console"
Now, even though it hasn't been confirmed by any Sony official that the PS3's new, soon-to-be-rumbling SIXAXIS will actually be shown at the upcoming Leipzig Games Convention in Germany, there is serious reason to believe that's going to happen, given that David Reeves promised last month that there would be "fireworks" at the Leipzig Games Convention. So honestly now, what else could they be showing off? Yeah of course, other stuff too, but the revamped controller is a sure thing.
At E3 2005, Sony actually showcased a boomerang-shaped controller for the PS3. The strange looking controller was accompanied by much criticism, and so the design was later abandoned. Sony pulled their act together and later stated that the original controller "was very clearly designed as a design concept, and was never intended to be the final controller, despite what everybody said about it."
Of course, they just didn't want to admit they were wrong. When so much money is involved, you don't make controller designs just for the sake of it. Anyway, the original design was replaced by the upgraded, wireless version of the PS2's DualShock 2 controller (lacking rumble of course).