In an unfortunate turn of
events for the legions of Australian video game fans, Sony's president of the Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios
division Phil Harrison announced today that the upcoming
PlayStation 3 controller will be unable
to pull double duty as a precision kangaroo killer. Apparently the boomerang/banana shape that we've come to
hate despise detest accept as the
PS3's major drawback is being "tossed" in favor of an
unspecified redesign (NOT the one pictured here) that will be unveiled at E3 in May, mentioned Harrison in a speech
that was mainly about the Xbox Live-like
PlayStation
Network Platform. There's a lot of pressure on Sony here to unveil something appealing for several reasons: they
need to placate the vocal minority of ravenous fanboys who publicly slammed the initial design, but more importantly,
they need to prove they can outdesign
a bunch of very talented gaming
blog readers.
[Thanks, Mike]
