With teary eyes, the SIXAXIS approached the podium confidently, accepted its reward, gave its speech (with a special shout out to Phil, Kaz, and Ken) and proceeded to do a motion-sensing victory dance. Yeah, that's right. The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences honored the SIXAXIS with an Emmy. A Technology and Engineering Emmy. This reward goes hand in hand with the announcement Sony gave, declaring one million PS3's have hit US shelves.Jack Tretton, CEO of SCEA, added this to all the glowing attention the PS3 was getting: "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. The full potential of this powerful machine has yet to be realized. What you've seen so far is just a taste of what will be on the table for 2007 and years to come." Even though the consumer demand is in question, you have to admit, there is a lot in store for this awesome console. Like games. We'd like games.
Anyway, for being called a "gimmick" or "stealing other technology at the last minute" and "thrown together", we don't exactly see other controllers getting Emmy's. Not saying they don't deserve them, but seriously, the controller's got to have something to offer if it's getting a freakin' Emmy. What're your thoughts? Oh, just as a side note, anyone else notice you can actually see through the SIXAXIS' outer shell? That's mind-boggling. Maybe that's why it won (sarcasm).
[via Joystiq]
[update: fixed that weird link that wasn't a link at all -- according to the source code, it was a copy/paste of different text color. Multiple times. For every letter. It was weird, but it should be cool now.]
