PS3 controller wins Emmy award [update 1]
by Ludwig Kietzmann 
{ Jan 8th 2007 at 5:55PM }
In the mood for a good laugh, a proper el-oh-el? Then read this unbelievable, oblivious and altogether hilarious Gamesindustry.biz article regarding the wondrous insides of the PS3 controller. The gist of it sees the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences bestowing an Emmy award upon the Sixaxis -- for technology and engineering. As you might expect, the award arrives in response to new-fangled "motion sensing technology", currently not featured in any other console in existence. Indeed, the engineers at Sony deserve a hearty pat on the back for taking the time to "re-define the original Dual Shock controller" and painstakingly remove any traces of rumble technology. Indeed, putting rumble and motion sensing into the same controller would likely spell unmitigated disaster.
Meanwhile, Jack Tretton, CEO of SCEA, chimes in on the whole affair and in doing so, sends out a distress signal from deep within an alternate reality. "The overwhelming consumer demand and critical acclaim for PS3 is testament of the platform's strength and the industry's desire for a true next-generation entertainment system." Come on, Mr. Tretton, even Quinn Mallory has a subscription to Time magazine.
Update: Oops! Sony got their controllers mixed up.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
the real Steve @ Jan 8th 2007 5:58PM
lol. first.
Mr. Khan @ Jan 8th 2007 6:01PM
All opinions about Sony aside
Jack Tretton is an embarrassment
All the sales arrogance of Yamauchi and tech arrogance of Kutaragi
But somebody was fast asleep when they decided this (although you should be more objective in reporting this, laddies)
Mitochondria @ Jan 9th 2007 10:38AM
Wow, and you wonder...how do these people get their jobs?
Also, what overwhelming consumer demand and critical acclaim? nobodys buying the PS3, stupid noobs.
BklynKid @ Jan 8th 2007 6:14PM
Hahaha, now that's a proper el-em-a-oh.
Dpfinch @ Jan 8th 2007 6:03PM
Maybe it's just me, but i couldn't stand the lifeless controler. Just drove me bonkers playing it for a week!
Oh well congrats Sony i guess...
CJC @ Jan 8th 2007 8:11PM
Oh, let Sony have the award. Nintendo has a closet full of shinythings won by the DS and Wii, Sony can have one.
I'm curious, though. Is Nintendo ineligible because it's not really an electronics company
or something?
Flash @ Jan 8th 2007 6:07PM
Fianally, some one reconises the greatness of that controller. Nothing but haters, on this site.
Beano @ Jan 9th 2007 2:57AM
The Emmy jury should be given the award for the most clueless award jury of the year. What a joke..
DeezNuts420 @ Jan 9th 2007 9:54AM
This is the best press sony has had in months.
Muttley @ Jan 8th 2007 6:10PM
Microsoft's Sidewinder should have won this... almost 10 years ago. Award for technology and engineering? Yeah... right...
Fozzie @ Jan 8th 2007 6:18PM
#4 is a fucking moron. This is an outrage.
supadude5000 @ Jan 8th 2007 6:13PM
I'm pretty sure that the controller award was presented to Sony only because Nintendo wasn't at CES. But anyways, an Emmy? What the hell?
The Origin Of Species @ Jan 8th 2007 6:15PM
"Fianally, some one reconises the greatness of that controller. Nothing but haters, on this site."
Ha
You're not actually serious, right?
P.S. It's Finally not fianally
In all seriousness, however, I don't think that the judges considered all of the candidates for this award as the wiimote beats out the PS3 controller, not just in motion sensing, but in the fact that it has rumble and a built in speaker. It also has a design that isn't 10 years old. Some Fanboy is obviously working behind the scenes here...
serb @ Jan 8th 2007 8:11PM
wow u ppl are stupid
just cuz some lil homo fanboys on the internet despise the ps3 doesnt mean its not a great console
maybe if any of u were above the age of 12 ud figure that out........
Darkness @ Jan 9th 2007 10:36AM
Wow. A Twilight Zone moment if there ever was one. In what way is the Sixaxis innovative? I guess someone at CES should pull out the Wii and hook it up to the 108 inch TV for some serious Wii Sports action.
Retropants @ Jan 8th 2007 6:18PM
For technology and engineering?
I see that somebody gave up video gaming after the Atari crash in '83.
Aex @ Jan 8th 2007 6:18PM
I can already tell the comments for this post are going to deliver the best fanboy drivle from both sides of the fence... EVAR!
One side you'll have the hurt Ninty fanboys that will whine and cry cause ZOMG TEH WII! On the other you'll have the rabid Sony fanboys laughing at the ZOMG TEH WII! Then right in the middle you'll have the xbox360 fanboys that will claim the ps3 controller sucks and the xbox360 controller is TEH WIN!
Ahh, posts like this are why I come to joystiq.
NintendoFanbot @ Jan 8th 2007 10:25PM
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
"First of all, we'd like to say that we are not interested in gimmicks.
Rumble is out, motion is in.
Mr. Kutaragi I believe that to be a tremendous innovation.
Let's have a hand please."
Forget the PS3, if Sony presents to the public their findings of this "TV-so-real-alternate-reality-viewing machine", give them 100 bajillion Nobel Peace Prizes.
Hiroshi Yamauchi was a genius, and hired a couple of blokes people would later be appreciative of: Gunpei Yokoi and Shigeru Miyamoto (the latter of which was against his 'better judgement').
dsr7997 @ Jan 8th 2007 6:23PM
All of a sudden I remember in 1989 when Jethro Tull beat out Metallica for "Metal" act of the year at the Grammy's.
JohnQAnonymous @ Jan 8th 2007 6:23PM
Apparently this is because Nintendo didn't show at CES, and since Microsoft did show at CES last year, they won last year's award.
Want an Emmy? Show up to CES. Sorry Nintendo, you lose.
Antec @ Jan 8th 2007 6:22PM
it must bug joystiq so much for sony to actually win an award. c'mon guys dont player hate, congratulate.
Digital Dept @ Jan 8th 2007 8:18PM
Is this article on Fark.com yet? If not it needs to be submitted with a "DUMBASS" tag. Just sayin is all.
Shagi @ Jan 8th 2007 6:23PM
If this was to go to a joystiq it should go to the Wii for the mouse pointer/IR beacon config. The motion sensing on both of these joysticks is crap.
F-Forward @ Jan 8th 2007 6:26PM
Bwahahaha beautifully written!
pixelbox @ Jan 8th 2007 8:18PM
There's some serious cash working behind the scenes there.
Tomoki @ Jan 8th 2007 6:30PM
Did I read this right?
Because it says that SIXAXIS won an Emmy.
Even though it's not a TV show.
WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT
Komrade Kayce @ Jan 8th 2007 6:31PM
Yeah, what the hell is this. Microsoft either deserves the award for motion in controllers for having the sensing sidewinder all those years ago, or Nintendo deserves it for being the modern iteration that is technologically leaps and bounds above the same things the PS3 controller is being praised for in that article.
This whole thing reeks of corporate monies being traded for awards.
kayzai @ Jan 8th 2007 6:44PM
BONKERS!!!
dxtrinc @ Jan 11th 2007 8:05AM
I love the logic at play here....
Sony copied Nintendo at the last second and won an award...a freaking Emmy no less
And here i sit laughing so hard my gut hurts
Yes my friends i am a Nintendo fanboy....and yes....the PS3 sucks....and no....it shouldn't have won an award....unless that award was "laggiest POS in next gen gaming"
let the angry posts begin!!!
WUHPAH!!
JohnQAnonymous @ Jan 8th 2007 6:38PM
You people are all crying outrage, when the only outrage is that Nintendo was too stupid to figure out how to enter, and the 360 won last year. (Because nothing else showed up.) Shut up about it already. The PS3 just won by default. (The two sweetest words in the English language.)
Just accept the fact that Nintendo didn't win was due to their own self-sabotage. Sure, maybe they didn't want to go to CES. But you can't start bitching about someone not winning an award when they don't fulfill the prerequisites for receiving the award.
I think Sony should do something like Ben Stiller did for the opening of Heat Vision and Jack.
"And then I won this...
*slams Emmy down on the table*
It's called... 'An Em-my'.
'How many Emmy Awards have you won, Mister Mario?'
*tears up picture of Miyamoto*"
If Nintendo wanted the award, honestly, all they had to do was show up. They didn't. Sony wins. End of story.
Christo @ Jan 8th 2007 6:38PM
Wow, that's soooo cool that the PS3 won an Emmy!
Now I'm definitly going to waste my money and buy a PS3!
Sheesh :P
Tom @ Jan 8th 2007 6:39PM
The Ps3 controller is easily the worst controller ever for its time. Seriously the thing is horrible. Its not as comfortable as the Wii or 360 controller. Its not as innovative as the Wii controller and as far as a traditional controller goes is far worse than the 360.
Analog has been the standard method of input for 11years now and yet somehow Sony still have a controller with a d-pad as its primary input device.
The thing is an embarassment and plays a huge part in why I don't want a PS3. Put some good analog sticks on it, in places that aren't completly ridiculous. Put better buttons on it rather than the trash at the moment that is as flat as flat can be, and for goodness sake redesign the shape of it. Its not comfortable at all.
This is the 3rd console in a row where sony has had the same basic design for the controller. That is truly ridiculous. Microsoft GREATLY improved the xbox controller in one generation. Nintendo improve their controller every generation as well. I was actually surprised how comfortable the 360 controller is. The original xbox controller was awful, the controller-s was quite good and the new one is fantastic. The n64 bad was great, the gamecube controller was great and the wii controller is a revolution. The psone controller was ok, the ps2 controller was seriously outdated, the ps3 controller is a fossil.
If microsoft who made such a screw up of the first controller can get it so right the 2nd time, I fail to see why Sony is still stuck with an awful controller the 3rd time. The only people who claim its comfortable are those who have played the playstation so long its deformed their hands into mangled messes. A controller should be comfortable the very first time you pick it up, it shouldn't take hours of adapting. FPS and fighting games are especially akward on it.
(comment didn't appear first time sorry if this is a double post)
GOD @ Jan 8th 2007 6:40PM
*geeks out at the Sliders reference*
Maybe the Emmy committee slide onto our planet from an alternative universe where Nintendo doesn't exist...
kayzai @ Jan 9th 2007 4:23AM
Wii Remote has:
* PROPER motion sensing (NOT JUST TILT)
* An Infra-Red Camera (i.e POINTER)
* Built-In Rumble (Sony said Sixaxis could not include this)
* Built-in speaker ( A FIRST in joypads)
* Built-in Memory. (you can store 10 miis on every Wii remote and take them to a friend's house).. ANOTHER FIRST!
The SIXAXIS is nothing but a PS2 joypad with the nunchuck's basic motion sensing MINUS rumble.
ONE QUESTION MR LIK-SANG KILLER... HOW MUCH DID YOU PAY FOR THE AWARD?
Nintendo should leave it to the public to present the awards through sales.
Ridiculous!
Flash @ Jan 8th 2007 6:46PM
Man did you ppl take you HaTeRaDe today, obously not.
Its funny how just the mear mention of the ps3, givs M$ lovers the shivers. The ps3 owns you ppl.
Earl @ Jan 8th 2007 9:07PM
Sony wins an Emmy, who cares?
It is not like this will help sell those consoles sitting in on store shelves.
So for $600, you get to say: "I have an Emmy award winning controller!" Yeah, you CAN just buy the controller and not the console, but that would be stupid, now wouldn't it?
Nintendo didn't win, so what?
Nintendo doesn't exactly need help selling consoles, now do they?
AJ @ Jan 8th 2007 10:23PM
Well the Emmy's have been known to be a joke for sometime among the TV community, but now it has spread to the video game community.
pixelbox @ Jan 8th 2007 8:31PM
I'm not a fan of the PS3 controller design, but Sony won by default here. No one else showed up, and the 360 pad won last year.
waldo15 @ Jan 9th 2007 7:02PM
Forgive me for sounding like a total hater, but I just don't see the innovation part of the equation on the sixaxis, other than you can read the name backwards and it's the same thing.
All of the technologies that comprise the controller are definitely not new, I mean the controller itself is almost a decade old, Bluetooth has been there for years now, motion technology exists since the Sidewinder. What else could it be? was the number of submissions to the Awards so poor that the judges decided "heck, between this thing and the Gizmondo, we can clearly see a winner"?...
mike @ Jan 8th 2007 10:33PM
What's the deal with the rumble?? do you play and stick the deam controller in your ass???
I dont give a damn about the rumble i always turned it off.
Nodnetni @ Jan 8th 2007 6:59PM
I love Sony fanboys. They all think they are some kind of elite gamer, just because there system costs twice as much as the others. Sony fanboys might be the most die hard of them all, they stand up for something they know sucks.
Demi Adejuyigbe @ Jan 8th 2007 7:15PM
Are you kidding? They're not even a TV show! Unless sometime inbetween the release of the PS3 and now, someone created a show called Thats So Sixaxis!
I can see it now.
Sixaxis: Honey, I'm home!
*applaud from audience*
Wife: How was your day?
Sixaxis: Well, I was at the bar all day, so now I'm trying to get ready for work.
Wife: Oh really? How are you preparing, since technically you can't get ready to rumble?
*audience laughs, some idiot yells "Its funny because its ironic!"*
Sixaxis: Well, Since I'm always picked on at the offices, I'm gonna go start my car then go and face the guys. Since I lsot my keys, looks like I have to go WIRE my car. I usually am wire-less, but when my car breaks down, I can't go until I'm wired. Too bad I can't be used when I'm wired. I have to finish wiring before I leave. Then I'm gonna go stand up to the guys!
Wife: But how will you do that? Everyone knows you're such a lightweight!
*audience laughs, some idiot yells "Its funny because its ironic!"*
Sixaxis: Well, maybe I shouldn't do that. I do have a dentist appointment after work. I need to get rid of my crappy blue tooth!
*audience laughs, some idiot yells "Its funny because its ironic!"*
Song-
He's a SIXAXIS, she's a ho!
Is he ready to rumble? Oh, NO NO NO!
Wire him up, yet he still can't go!
He truly sucks asses,
He's a SIXAXIS!
Damn, I need a life.
Aran @ Jan 8th 2007 7:10PM
What a f**king joke.
Mike @ Jan 8th 2007 7:11PM
I love how PC World's 20 Most Innovative Products is mentioned. Considering how the wii was 4th on the list and the ps3 was 16th.
Dr. No @ Jan 8th 2007 7:16PM
At 24: Yes, the PS3 owns us, with its ludicrous pricetag and lack of games. I know that when most people think of console ownage, lack of a real reason to buy one is the single most important criterion for "ownage" factor.
PS: Major props for the Sliders reference.
Psaakyrn @ Jan 8th 2007 9:34PM
Or of cause, it could be that Nintendo rejected the Emmy because Nintendo thinks that Emmys for consoles are a joke.
And frankly, it is. I rather have a proper award for Nintendo from more respectable sources.
Red Viking @ Jan 8th 2007 7:26PM
At least the PS3 controller doesn't fly out of your hands.
v1cious @ Jan 8th 2007 7:30PM
you know before i thought the whole bias thing was really stupid fanboy propaganda, but now i am starting to believe it. seriously, it seems like you guys spin any bit of news into something negative. had this been any other company, this would have been any other new story, but SONY? oh dear! it's the end of the world!
seriously, this is getting a little silly now.
ch0rx @ Jan 8th 2007 8:24PM
@30
It hasn't had the chance to yet, none of the games are immersive enough
cybereality @ Jan 9th 2007 5:45AM
Is today opposite day and no one told me?