The world of dodgy console peripherals has struck again with another laughable invention, this time to add rumble to your bog-standard SixAxis controller.
If buying the £300 console left your wallet too empty to import a DualShock 3 controller, peripheral company PEGA wants to help with its $17 contraption pictured below.
It's called the Vibrating Bag, for some unknown reason, and features a vibrating unit that straps to your SixAxis, with a transmitter that is attached to your PS3.
Only, the transmitter has a massive '80s-style aerial antenna on it, ruining the neo look of your PS3, and by the looks of it, the shaking unit responds to sounds in the game (like a sort of small vibrating speaker), not the game's proper rumble signals.
But don't let that put you off because it also has a built-in FM radio tuner - cutting edge stuff. And according to the packaging it was "specially designed for PS3 game chip" so it must be good.
Why did we ever spend £40 on a DualShock 3 when we could have just got this?
I feel sorry for anybody who has this bought for them. Except from the look of it, it may be useful to beat them to within an inch of their life for being so stupid
i had 5 or 6 sixaxis.. they just fall apart. but the new DS3 feels very sturdy, and not just cause of the extra weight.. it is well built - u cant squash it out of shape with a firm grip like u can the the sixaxis.
Angry gamer alert.
SIX PADS?!
Either you're the strongest person on the planet or you melt pads with the sheer heat from your volcanic, angry-gamer hands...?
And I certainly couldn't squash a SixAxis out of shape. I don't make a habit of trying but I'm pretty sure I couldn't.
Having used my mates DS3 on GT Prologue last night, I'm left unimpressed sadly. The same can be said for GT Prologue also. Not impressed by it at all, which is a shame as I love my Racing games.
I'm afraid I will be putting off my purchase of a PS3 for quite a while, unfortunately.
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