[PS3] PlayStation 3 Discussion Thread

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PS3 controller to be redesigned
Posted Mar 22, 2006 at 07:04PM by Paul M

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In more news out of GDC 06,
Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios President, Phil Harrison, announced that the heavily criticised controller for the upcoming PS3 will be redesigned and will be on display at E3 2006 in May.

I also wonder if Sony's recent court decision about the Dual Shock and the possibility they may not be able to include this technology in any future product came into play.

I'll be honest; I just couldn't get used to the old boomerang design. So this would be a good thing.

Originally Posted by Megalith

Thank god I can play games that I don't understand.

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The capacity of Blu-Ray had previously been mentioned to allow for multiple languages of a game to be encoded onto the same massive-capacity disc.

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/697/697656p1.html

Problem solved.

Originally Posted by Taterdemalion

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/697/697656p1.html

Problem solved.

If Sonic Adventure 2 pulled off multilingual speech and text, it's not to much of a stretch to assume some newer games will as well. With PS2 games, how many single layer PS2 DVD-ROMs even fill up all the way? I've noticed some games with less videos tend to be less than 3GB in size, more than enough for multiple text and audio languages.

Are the blu-ray movies going to be region free too or just the games?

Most likely just the games, like the way it is with the PSP. Movies are under a different copyright law than games are, so I've heard.

Region-free, eh? Nice to hear! However, would that apply only to PS3 games? What about PSone and PS2 games?

Originally Posted by NoWittyComment

Region-free, eh? Nice to hear! However, would that apply only to PS3 games? What about PSone and PS2 games?

No it would not, because they (PS2 and PSX discs) already have a region coding in their specifications.

Originally Posted by SouthJag

I'm really excited about the news of Ratchet and Clank making the jump to PS3. I was fearful that, like the Jak and Daxter series, R&C was over after Deadlocked as far as consoles were concerned.

Hopefully with this announcement will soon come a similar one regarding Sly Cooper and Jak and Daxter.

Wow, you said it SouthJag. Though Deadlocked's ending could be interepreted as either the end of the series of possibly the start of a new adventure, there was never any word of a next-gen R&C game being worked on. Guess that little teaser today all but confirmed it.

About the region coding and controller redesign, it sounds like great news. But both really aren't all that surprising, given Kutaragi's announcement that all PS3 games would be on BD. The U.S. and Japan are in the same region according to Blu-Ray so even if it wasn't region free, the games could still play. Oh, and everyone and their mother knew the controller wasn't the final one.

Any new pics of the controller (revised?) I sure hope Sony is smarter than that to keep the present boomerang thingamajig.

Originally Posted by SouthJag

I'm really excited about the news of Ratchet and Clank making the jump to PS3. I was fearful that, like the Jak and Daxter series, R&C was over after Deadlocked as far as consoles were concerned.

Hopefully with this announcement will soon come a similar one regarding Sly Cooper and Jak and Daxter.

Great! R&C is one of my favorite PS2 franchises. Considering the graphics of the PS2 versions, the PS3 rendition will be a great sight to behold.
Do you have a source for this announcement?

Here's the teaser, Sega;

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Update 11:23am - A clip showing a futuristic city is ran, displaying a blimp with the words Ratchet and Clank on the side. The camera pans down through the site with enemy robots and flying vehicles overhead. It has been revealed that I-8, their first PS3 project, is now called Resistance: Fall of Man and looks "incredible". Price speaks a bit more about the hardware at hand.

Remember the Blimp in Metropolis from the first game? Well, yeah and the robots and futuristic ships pretty much point to a new game. That and the R&C across the blimp.

Oh, and the new design hasn't been revealed, they're saving it for E3.

The controller is being revised? ZOMG NO WAIZ??!1111???ONE!!!! Did they officialy announce that it's gonna be revised or is it some kind of rumor? I havn't read anything about that yet.

About the Ratchet and Clank game -- I read somewhere that the city they were overlooking was similar to one in a Star Wars game; something that started with a C. Oh well.

Originally Posted by SouthJag

About the Ratchet and Clank game -- I read somewhere that the city they were overlooking was similar to one in a Star Wars game; something that started with a C. Oh well.

Coruscant or whatever the hell it is? That's that massive city in Star Wars with the enormous skyscapers and endless number of cars. There have already been worlds like that in R&C, SouthJag.

I realize that, but having no idea what Coruscant looks like, the article made it sound as if it were some big deal. I 'unno.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Corus...00&sa=N&tab=iw

That's what Coruscant looks like, but why would it seem like a big deal? Sprawling mega-cities are extremely common in R&C and in Sci-Fi in general.

FIRST PIC OF THE PS3's RE-DESIGNED CONTROLLER!

RE-designed PS3 Controller

Looks cool.

That should be Miyamoto in the background. "AHH USE IT FOR ZELDA."

Well, Sony have been 'inspired' by Nintendo in the past, this could be the following 'inspiration'. The Magic Wand!