Sony's DualShock 3 is finally official: PS3 gets rumble

Kaz Hirai has come to the Tokyo Game Show bearing good news indeed: Sony's finally putting out a SIXAXIS with rumble, the DualShock 3. The controller will look exactly like the SIXAXIS, and is going to be hitting Japan this November, and North America and Europe in spring 2008. A few games in development have the function already, including Metal Gear Solid 4, and existing games can be updated with rumble over the PlayStation Network. Of course, the beans were spilled by EA earlier today, and Kaz says Sony let developers know about the controller as soon as it was decided upon, which would explain all the other leaks over the year. What Sony has constantly described as a technical difficulty stemming from the motion sensitivity of the controller has apparently been overcome, but it's still hard not to pin it all on that Immersion lawsuit no matter how much spin Sony puts on things. There's no word on price for the DualShock 3; official list of games that will use the DualShock 3 or get a software update to use it follows after the break.

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

[2MB @ Sep 19th 2007 10:16PM]

lol double post.

So when will Sony be sued for exploding controllers?

[i.c. weiner @ Sep 19th 2007 10:16PM]

SPRING!?

[Nate @ Sep 19th 2007 10:36PM]

I love how this generation were freakin out about controllers.

[i.c. weiner @ Sep 19th 2007 10:43PM]

i wasn't freaked out, just excited

[Nate @ Sep 19th 2007 10:46PM]

I wasnt talking about you, i meant the whole video game community

[Phillip J. Fry @ Sep 19th 2007 10:59PM]

Oh man... I feel so bad... I ate your pizza over a thousand years ago!

[i.c. weiner @ Sep 19th 2007 11:18PM]

dude, phillip, WHAT?

[Bender @ Sep 20th 2007 12:41AM]

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.

[Paris @ Sep 20th 2007 8:04AM]

Why is everyone getting highest ranked here?

[Tony C @ Sep 20th 2007 8:14AM]

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.

[Jon Rick @ Sep 19th 2007 10:17PM]

Who cares?

[LordFarkward @ Sep 19th 2007 10:29PM]

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.

[bob @ Sep 19th 2007 10:36PM]

I care...

[SKI @ Sep 19th 2007 11:33PM]

I will care, but I guess not until Spring 08.

[MC @ Sep 19th 2007 10:21PM]

Screw sony, its all about Halo 3 baby. Best game EVER!

[Cosmos @ Sep 19th 2007 10:23PM]

Worst comment ever.

[Pentium @ Sep 19th 2007 10:41PM]

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..!

[Josh @ Sep 19th 2007 10:50PM]

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.

[David W. @ Sep 19th 2007 10:22PM]

haha I'm sorry...but both of the other consoles have had it since release...so it doesn't improve my perception any...

[a ham sandwich @ Sep 19th 2007 10:27PM]

wow. rumble. what a new invention that it makes sense it should be implemented so late in the product's life cycle.

[Zak @ Sep 19th 2007 11:30PM]

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 :-)

[Fruition @ Sep 19th 2007 10:41PM]

Well I sure hope the PS3's life cycle is longer than 1.5 years...

[Andrew @ Sep 20th 2007 7:50PM]

except... Again, US early adoptors are the ones screwing all you who waited, I have HARDWARE PS2 support. Kaythxbye.

[Fruition @ Sep 19th 2007 10:29PM]

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...

[ryan @ Sep 19th 2007 10:33PM]

my hope exactly. Except I'd be fine with just 1 or 2.

[Pacos @ Sep 19th 2007 11:10PM]

Good Point, if the regular SixAxis come down in price, I'll pick some up and then eventually get a couple rumbles...

[Tyler @ Sep 19th 2007 10:30PM]

cant wait
this will defintely be a good step for sony

[thethirdmoose @ Sep 19th 2007 10:32PM]

Ew... how last-gen

[John @ Sep 19th 2007 10:32PM]

how are the controllers different that other countries get them later...?

[Wolfticket @ Sep 19th 2007 10:33PM]

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.

[Josh @ Sep 19th 2007 10:54PM]

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

[Simon @ Sep 19th 2007 10:35PM]

the last reason i need to buy a PS3! :)

[Pentium @ Sep 19th 2007 10:38PM]

good news!

[modified @ Sep 19th 2007 10:40PM]

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.

[CT A @ Sep 19th 2007 10:42PM]

Will Sony give sixaxis owners $100 back for buying the controller with no rumble?

[Terrence Newton @ Sep 19th 2007 10:43PM]

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..

[Jake R. @ Sep 19th 2007 10:52PM]

Wow that would be really cool, if this was 1997.

[SimbaDogg @ Sep 19th 2007 10:56PM]

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

[Sealobo @ Sep 20th 2007 9:09AM]

i don't get it; what's the fig bucking deal??? Sony is bringing back a feature from the last century, so what?

[Matt @ Sep 19th 2007 11:08PM]

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?

[Pacos @ Sep 19th 2007 11:17PM]

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?

[David @ Sep 28th 2007 2:49PM]

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.

[Warwick @ Sep 19th 2007 11:12PM]

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.

[Rob @ Sep 19th 2007 11:23PM]

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.

[michas_pi @ Sep 24th 2007 9:11PM]

Rumble was vital to finding secret treasures in Ocarina of Time...

[Jon @ Sep 19th 2007 11:15PM]

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3157501

How delicious that humble pie must be!

[angelsvairwaves1 @ Sep 19th 2007 11:18PM]

So...

two new thrice singles out today "firebreather" and "digital ocean"

seriously goood.

but off topic.

[anthone @ Sep 19th 2007 11:27PM]

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.

[Michael Mendoza @ Sep 19th 2007 11:33PM]

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

[Dan @ Sep 20th 2007 4:59AM]

Earlie? Hey there fella, looks like you just invented yourself an ickle new wordie.