Sony's DualShock 3 is finally official: PS3 gets rumble
By Ryan Block 
posted Sep 19th 2007 10:08PM
posted Sep 19th 2007 10:08PM
LIST OF PS3 TITLES COMPATIBLE WITH DUALSHOCK 3 IN JAPAN
As of September 20th, 2007 (in alphabetical order of company name)
Vampire Rain -Altered Species-
BIOHAZARD 5
Devil May Cry 4
Dark Sector
Burnout Paradise
FIFA franchise (title name TBD, by EA K.K.)
BUMPY TROT2
Dynasty Warriors 6
Fatal InertiaKOEI Co., Ltd.
GI JOCKEY 4 2007
METAL GEAR ONLINE
METAL GEAR SOLID 4 GUNS OF THE PATRIOTS
IMABIKISOU
Blast Factor
echochrome
Folklore
FORMULA ONE CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION
Go! Sports Ski
Heavenly Sword
MotorStorm
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
Resistance: Fall of Men
Super Stardust HD
TOY HOME
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Warhawk
LIST OF PS3 TITLES COMPATIBLE WITH DUALSHOCK 3 IN NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE
As of September 20th, 2007 (in alphabetical order of company name)
The Darkness
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Soldier of Fortune
BIOHAZARD 5
Devil May Cry 4
N-Cube
Warbit
Dark Sector
Turok
Highlander
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
Burnout Paradise
FIFA franchise (title name TBD, by EA)
Legendary: The Box Gamecock
To End All Wars Ghostlight
RAGE id Software
WarDevil - Unleash the Beast
Within
Dynasty Warriors 6
Fatal Inertia
METAL GEAR SOLID 4 GUNS OF THE PATRIOTS
Blacksite: Area 51
TNA Wrestling
Unreal Tournament 3
Wheelman
Cops (codename, title name TBD)
Planet One (codename, title name TBD)
Heroes over Europe
Condemned 2
Iron Man
The Club
The Crucible
The Incredible Hulk
Blast Factor
echochrome
Elefunk
Folklore
FORMULA ONE CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION
Go! Sports Ski
Heavenly Sword
High Velocity Bowling
MLB 08: The Show
MotorStorm
NBA 08
PAIN
Rat Race
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
Resistance: Fall of Man
Snakeball
SOCOM: Confrontation
Super Stardust HD
TOY HOME
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Warhawk
WipEout HD
GirpShift Sony Online Entertainment
NBA 2K8 Take Two Sports
Destroy All Humans 3
Stuntman Ignition
Assassin's Creed
BEOWULF
HAZE
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced
Warfighter 2
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas
Prototype
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
lol double post.
So when will Sony be sued for exploding controllers?
SPRING!?
I love how this generation were freakin out about controllers.
i wasn't freaked out, just excited
I wasnt talking about you, i meant the whole video game community
Oh man... I feel so bad... I ate your pizza over a thousand years ago!
dude, phillip, WHAT?
Because your name is the name on a pizza Fry ate on the pilot of Futurama when he fell into the cryogenic freezing chamber and his name for that post was (Phillip J. Fry... Fry's full name on Futurama). Get your futurama trivia down or get off the internet.
Why is everyone getting highest ranked here?
Pssst... In case you didn't notice, he made his name "i.c. wiener", which along with prank phone call fodder, is also a reference to Futurama. It was the customer name for the pizza delivery at the cryogenics lab.
Not sure if he was trying to be funny or not, but whatever it was didn't look like it came across as planned.
Who cares?
best example of the numerous of trolls around the intertube... they just surf on whatever site, find out if they have a comment system, and if they do, just keep on bombarding the site with "why is this news?!?!", "who cares?!?!", and "are guys being paid for reporting this?!?!"...
get lost, trolls, just get the fuck lost.
I care...
I will care, but I guess not until Spring 08.
Screw sony, its all about Halo 3 baby. Best game EVER!
Worst comment ever.
I played Halo I and Halo II and it's not the best game ever as u speak!!
it's really normal game!!
Microsoft again..!
It is a good game series but i wouldnt be surprised if the 3rd installment is as hyped up a product (or more) as the iPhone.
It would be nice to see it do well, i would definitely play it. However - this is completely off topic, if you want to go and flame sony do it on the xbox forums.
I am excited about dual shock coming back, the ps3 controllers feel way to light and somewhat weak without lead slabs rumbling inside them.
haha I'm sorry...but both of the other consoles have had it since release...so it doesn't improve my perception any...
wow. rumble. what a new invention that it makes sense it should be implemented so late in the product's life cycle.
Nice one Sony! Good way to make your early adopters feel like it was worth their time splashing out all that money right away. Do an apple and give them rebates :-)
Well I sure hope the PS3's life cycle is longer than 1.5 years...
except... Again, US early adoptors are the ones screwing all you who waited, I have HARDWARE PS2 support. Kaythxbye.
Hopefully they'll slash the price of the old SIXAXIS and I'll make off with three of them on the cheap... I don't need rumble, if going without can save me a few bucks...
my hope exactly. Except I'd be fine with just 1 or 2.
Good Point, if the regular SixAxis come down in price, I'll pick some up and then eventually get a couple rumbles...
cant wait
this will defintely be a good step for sony
Ew... how last-gen
how are the controllers different that other countries get them later...?
Oh no, I've bought a ps3 with 2 controllers at great expense just to find out that I now have to re-buy the controllers at great expense to get a feature that has been standard on games controllers for the best part of a decade.
Just kidding; I'd never by a ps3, can't afford it.
Do what i did, get a friend who can and just leach off of their PS3. It comes loaded with 32 LCD TV, PS3 w/games, and you can even yell at each-other halfway through a death match.
HDTV - 1200$
PS3 - 600$
accesories - $$$$$$
Good friends that let you game on their new counsel - Priceless
the last reason i need to buy a PS3! :)
good news!
Sucks for anyone who has bought 4 gimped controllers. Good news for those that don't want rumble because there will be a lot of cheap controllers on ebay.
Will Sony give sixaxis owners $100 back for buying the controller with no rumble?
yeh, i'm a fanboy.. i will definitely import a controller or two from japan. yeh i kno uncharted will support it, but that's not what it's about. i just want to hold that weighty new controller in my hand..
Wow that would be really cool, if this was 1997.
my sister is currently doing a no receipt exchange for the sixaxxis i have right now, brand new never been opened. i knew if it was going it was gonna happen today. better to get the full $50 worth of store credit @ best buy rather than 20 or 30 bucks in the future. yay for me
i don't get it; what's the fig bucking deal??? Sony is bringing back a feature from the last century, so what?
Could someone please explain to me the big deal over rumble feature in a controller? I honestly don't get it. Does a vibrator in your hand really add that much to gameplay?
Not really, it's just something less for people to complain about the PS3 not having(look, Sony is actually listening for those of you who say they turn a deaf ear to everything, than complain about how long it took...seriously).
If you ask me, its a perk for new owners who buy a PS3 with rumble in it. I've had my PS3 since launch and say honestly, I didn't miss rumble. I have surround sound with a great AMP and Subwoofer, you want rumble, do it that way! I guess it's an inexpensive way to make people think they have a mini sub/amp in their hands and can feel the blast of an explosion.
People feel what they feel, ya know?
To be honest, when I bought the PS3 I didn't miss the good games, I was happy with my Call of Duty clone, especially with shuffled Perfect Dark weaponry. Even when the good games came people just complained that it wasn't enough...really people, get a grip (sigh).
See how I did that? I can propose an opinion, while at the same time condescending to those who oppose it, as if THEY are the ones who're being irrational! I sound like an ass even now don't I? This is you! Why should we give Sony quarter for legal issues of their own creation that prevented them from implementing what has become a standard in games for a decade? "Oh, seriously guys rumble doesn't add anything to games," what are you, a Sony parrot? That's analogous to "Rumble is so last gen."
Oh I'm sorry you're a gamer, and you love games, and you don't have a preference, and you own all three systems, and you don't like people railing against Sony even though they got what they wanted. This what comes of bad blood, when you're up you're up and when you're down you're down.
People wanted rumble, didn't get it, went along with their lives. Sony could've hinted at rumble in the future, so people could buy one or two controllers, save some places for shockers, but instead took a we're-too-good-for-rumble stance. Now it's been sprung on people, perhaps at a greater cost, and with a three month difference between Japanese and releases in North America and Europe. Suggesting that they might consider rumble in the future did not have to be presented as confessing a mistake, but that's what you'll hear as an excuse. Didn't they say that the motion sensing didn't work well with the rumble? Even if that wasn't true (there were skeptics on the web) they could've have claimed to, reconcile the two technologies, or that they were working on doing so, and perhaps rumble could be added in the future.
Seeing as how people aren't happy with Sony to begin with, this poorly calendar-ed reparation is sparking more complaints. These things may brush off you, but most people, if they are denied something they expected to receive, and when they are finally met with the hugely delayed response, only to reveal that what they want will be even further down the line, they won't enjoy it one bit. I don't see any good reason why Sony can't manage a worldwide launch for a controller.
I dont see what the big deal is. Rumble has never been a draw-card as a feature, for me at least.
I would rather them focus on producing quality games for the system rather than adding in an additional feature I hardly notice during normal gaming on any other system.
I notice the rumble every time I play. For some reason the plastic in my controller is messed and every time the left rumble activates, you get the lovely sound of metal scratching across plastic. Gets my attention all the time, as I yell at it to shut up.
Rumble was vital to finding secret treasures in Ocarina of Time...
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3157501
How delicious that humble pie must be!
So...
two new thrice singles out today "firebreather" and "digital ocean"
seriously goood.
but off topic.
Didnt kaz harai said in the beginning that rumble is the past and motion sensing is the future? What a loser trying to bring back dualshock. Idiot ate his own words and swallowed it.
I would like to buy one, try it out. Just FYI, you can import one from Japan to get it earlie, it might be a little more expensive that's all
Earlie? Hey there fella, looks like you just invented yourself an ickle new wordie.
I'm looking forward to the DualShock 3 for use with PS1 and PS2 games and future games like Gran Turismo 5 that support the rumble feature.
I wonder how the addition of rumble will affect battery life of the controllers.
Sony's next innovation, "Wireless PS2 controllers with rumble!"
Too bad, third-party developers have already came up with it to steal Sony's thunder.
...but can you play doom with it?
Nate Wrote: @ Sep 19th 2007 10:36PM
I love how this generation were freakin out about controllers.
That's because SONY SCE completely dropped the ball this generation and let Microsoft take their thunder by having the games that gamers want to play.
What is available to play on the PS3 other than striped down versions of Xbox 360 titles?
It's nice to see that all the lying, cocky bastards at Sony like Kaz Hirai / Jack Tretton and that prick Phil Harrison knocked off their asses down to reality.
The best thing that happened is that gamers by not buying the PS3 consoles and the numbers are showing just that. Sony is in some deep shit financially now.
Just goes to show you Sony - don't forget who made you what you are today.
We can make you and we can break you!
Hey mikey boy, chill out dude, its a rumble feature for gods sake. You know, theres an explosion somewhere and the thing vibrates....if you think this is a feature that can make or break any console out there you're either 12 years old or you're way overestimating its popularity or importance. Half the people on this very blog have said they dont give a crap about it....
For many folks this means that car games can be serious now, because without a wheel, it's kind of lame and without force feedback the wheels suck. I can't wait to play dirt and Gran Tourismo with a steering wheel.
i can haz rumblez?
Hmm, Mainichi Issho: Toro Station's not on the list...
So what do I do with the two none rumbling sixaxis controllers I bought 6 months ago now they're more or less obselete? I'm sure it won't be long before games start using rumbling as an integral part of the game... I'm looking at MGS for a start. Sony really needs to start treating its customers like customers and not sales figures.
"We have no plans to do so in the standard controller that ships with PlayStation 3. I believe that the Sixaxis controller offers game designers and developers far more opportunity for future innovation than rumble ever did. Now, rumble I think was the last generation feature; it's not the next-generation feature. I think motion sensitivity is. And we don't see the need to do that." - Phil Harrison, Sony, February 2007.
How can anyone trust a product from a company like this?
A rumble update for Formula 1: Championship Edition? Sweet!
I'll stick to my custom joystick, xbox, and SF3... unless i feel like whipping out the old Zapper and killing some ducks on my mint condition original NES :p
@Willen - That was my question as well... I think many people (myself included) would prefer long battery life over a rumble feature. Hopefully they will continue to sell the "old" SIXAXIS' after Spring '08.
@Ransom - I dunno about Doom... but I bet it'll blend!
good news, i guess
Hey....
as i recall Sony said it was last gen wasn't it?
aaaah f*ck i can't wait for DS3 8)
I own a PS3 only and have always been waiting for this 8)
I think im gonna import it from US/Japan i mean they are still the same arent they?
They'll release it first in Japan just like when they released the
PS3 for the first time.
Check out Games Asia they have em.
http://www.games-asia.com/playstation3-c-82.html
Since I got my PS3 I have spent quite a fair few dollars...aaarr i guess that's why we work...so we can do what we like!
Damn Sony why the hell does it have to be in the SPRING!!? Sh*t now I have to wait for like 4 months. Man why the f*ck Sony didn't release the Dualshock 3 at least one year after launch, they just had to think of it 2 years after. THANKS A LOT SONY.
P.S. you dumb*sses stop talking about futurama, personally I like Futurama but you just getting annoying. Man I'll just buy it off amazon or something.