DualShock 3 rumble works with PS2 games

73 Comments by Justin McElroy Nov 14th 2007 9:55AM
Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Peripherals

Even if your PS3 doesn't work with PS2 games, apparently your fancy, imported DualShock 3 controller will. And that doesn't just include letting you spin two (count 'em!) two analog sticks while you're catching monkeys with a net. No, friends, you'll also be able to feel the visceral thrill of rumbling as you whack the monkeys with your stun club. ... Or, you know, play other PS2 games that don't involve catching monkeys. The DualShock 3's rumbling abilities with PS2 games, which only a few would have noticed by now, was apparently added by the PS3's 2.0 firmware.

So the DualShock 3 is the newest gen of a next-gen peripheral now reaching back through time to accommodate a last-gen feature on last-gen games. But the only PS3s that support it will be those that play last-gen games, a feature that itself has become last-gen. We've honestly lost count of the layers of irony. Help us out here, Alanis.

Tags: 40gb, controllers, dualshock, dualshock3, ps3, rumble

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Kamall: Nov 14th 2007; 9:57AM

OMG! New PS3 40gb can't play last-gen games but now has a last-gen feature! Ze ironee! Sony sucks, down with Sony, Wii360 for the mothafuckin win!

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!

WiNG: Nov 14th 2007; 9:59AM

Umm if this is a serious post you really need to reconsider the direction of your life.

Jerk Face: Nov 14th 2007; 10:18AM

LOL @ WiNG

You are the winner!

Jtenma: Nov 14th 2007; 10:29AM

@ Wing

You should be a psychiatrist...

gonk: Nov 14th 2007; 12:10PM

LIKE RAIAIAIAIANNNNNN ON YOUR WEDDING DAYYYYYY

Burnt Meatloaf: Nov 14th 2007; 11:01PM

Bad sarcasm is even worse.

Kamall: Nov 14th 2007; 10:01AM

So Joystiq is so blinded by their irrational hate of Sony that they think only the 40gb versions work with the DualShock 3 controllers? A whaaaaaaa!?

JL: Nov 14th 2007; 10:08AM

Was the "a whaaaaaa?" a professor farnsworth quote? It sounded that way in my head.

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School): Nov 14th 2007; 10:11AM

No, they're just saying that Sony finally included rumble a "last gen feature" in their "newest generation" of the "next generation" controller (sixaxis), and that this last gen rumble will work in last gen games played on the next gen PS3. But the newest model of the next gen PS3 doesn't play last gen games. So we have a new gen sixaxis that rumbles in last gen games that half the PS3 skus can't even play.

Do you get the irony yet, or do I have to explain it in a more ironic fashion?

Syko360: Nov 14th 2007; 10:12AM

It's ironic they didn't get it the first time.

Vidikron (FU): Nov 14th 2007; 10:18AM

I don't any of this is actually irony.

Vidikron (FU): Nov 14th 2007; 10:18AM

*think

Hirsbrunner: Nov 14th 2007; 10:31AM

Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.

NATO_Duke: Nov 14th 2007; 12:03PM

Lighten up francis. The story is playing on the flame element so that people will come in here and freak out. Anyone with the original backwards compatable units would be happy about this feature, but that leaves little to comment on and have fun with.

Oh yeah, congrats on being the first zomgjoystiqistoobiased guy.

David: Nov 14th 2007; 2:31PM

Vidikron is right... like most things in life cited as examples of "irony," this is nothing of the sort.

FidliousWong: Nov 14th 2007; 10:09AM

Oh god, here we go....

Syko360: Nov 14th 2007; 10:10AM

Wow! Rumble really is "Last-Gen Technology"

PSN: Ummfada: Nov 14th 2007; 11:22AM

Let Me get this straight, Rumble is "last Gen", but DVD-9 is not...
I've recently given up on this "Console War" thing there are holes in both arguments, and my new ambition in not arguing a point on Joystiq... but providing monetarily and emotionaly for my Family (what was I focused on b4???) ... none of theses companies pay You guys enough to argue/make silly baseless quips, So I suggest more time playing Your $60 investments (the games) and less time fighting over which company You spend more money on...

Syko360: Nov 14th 2007; 11:38AM

LOL, My Xbox is visiting Texas...Again, and in addition I am stuck at work for 5 more hours....You seem to be the one "emotionally" involved in this whole thing...Mr PSN guy.

SDF is calling will you answer the call.

Ethan: Nov 14th 2007; 1:58PM

Well, it wouldn't be funny if you said dvds were last-gen because neither Nintendo nor Microsoft have ever agreed with it.

And I don't think I've ever heard the verses of that song! They're interesting, but I am vaguely concerned as to who's driving.

F. Rocker or Fernando R.?: Nov 14th 2007; 10:12AM

jaja nice writing Justin

GRANTED: Nov 14th 2007; 10:26AM

wow 2 posts, where one would have sufficed. good job being an annoying shit. again.

F. Rocker or Fernando R.?: Nov 14th 2007; 10:29AM

But why... why only when I bash Sony is wrong????

Everyone here in this post is bashing Sony.

PrinceAngelic: Nov 14th 2007; 10:40AM

Its cuz they've got nothing better to do than act all high and mighty...

I mean really Fernando its like asking why sony fanboys are all so arrogant...

Its just in their nature. You do you and don't worry about them. Clearly they have selective vision.

Vidikron (FU): Nov 14th 2007; 11:24AM

@Prince

LOL... defending Fernando's trolling? Come on now, don't be that stupid.

xXFenixKnight13Xx: Nov 14th 2007; 11:24AM

I feel you Fernando. Same here. Everybody bashes but when I bash all hell breaks lose on me. I need a hug.
=(

PrinceAngelic: Nov 14th 2007; 12:08PM

@ Vid

You do the same if not MORE "trolling" that Fernando does...

Fernando isn't doing anything unusual. Its not like hes the one person on this thread who just happens to not like sony.

However you and others would like to make it seem that way when really you've just got a personal problem with him.

Vidikron (FU): Nov 14th 2007; 3:32PM

@Prince

Oh really? Give me an example of where I trolled other than where I'm replying to a troll like Fernando. Fernando feels to need to pop into almost every single thread and make some stupid comment about the PS3. Where do I do that? Seriously, you're a far bigger troll than I am yourself. But way to to back-up your fellow troll, that's admirable.

F. Rocker or Fernando R.?: Nov 14th 2007; 10:14AM

"... just wait until the DualShock 4 included in the 200GB SKU PS3 with 360 and Wii backwards compatible blah blah blah..."

Trev: Nov 14th 2007; 10:22AM

If you're going to quote someone, you need to ACTUALLY quote someone, not just make shit up. You know that right?

F. Rocker or Fernando R.?: Nov 14th 2007; 10:23AM

I'm quoting Sony fanboys.

Vidikron (FU): Nov 14th 2007; 10:26AM

"blah blah blah blah blah blah"

I'm just quoting you.

Trev: Nov 14th 2007; 10:27AM

I don't think you understand quoting then. Someone needs to have actually said it.

F. Rocker or Fernando R.?: Nov 14th 2007; 10:27AM

Jtenma: Nov 14th 2007; 10:34AM

You guys love ripping on fernando...

*Leans to the side* hahahahahahah

Intentless: Nov 14th 2007; 10:52AM

Last I checked quotation marks can also be used in fictional literature to indicate dialogue... So the use is not only limited to quotes of individuals.

Intentless: Nov 14th 2007; 10:59AM

In this form he is indicating dialogue he himself is not saying but fictionally implying a seperate character stateing... Usually indicated audibly by a change of tone and pitch or making "quotation mark" gestures with ones fingers... Please refer to the wiki for quotation marks for further details...

Also yes I realize I'm really bored here at work and have nothing better to do right now....

Trev: Nov 14th 2007; 11:05AM

Technically Intentless, yes, though that's a quote of a fictional individual. Maybe its a gray area. While in context it's a quote, its not an account of actual events.

I fail to see how that makes it less bullshit, since we are not fictional. Are you saying that if I made up an inside source that said Nintendo was going to drop all Wii support in 2009 because they made their money already and just put it in quotation marks the blatant fabrication would be acceptable?

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School): Nov 14th 2007; 11:13AM

Do you understand the concept of satire?

Fernando Does. He's satirizing PS3Fanboys.

Intentless: Nov 14th 2007; 11:28AM

You would include with it the fact you were quoting an indvidual or "unnamed source." Quotations of individuals themselves should always be accompanied by a seperate indicator. And yes the SDF may be real. Just as the american soldiers fighting in WWII, but at the same time there are plenty of fictional characters that could be labeled just simply American Soldier from WWII. Just as is any satirical recreation of any political figure.

Intentless: Nov 14th 2007; 12:02PM

You trev are assuming anything and everything in quotations on this site indicates a report or leak of information from one source or another. It is meant to be bullshit or as an associate as pointed out satire...

NATO_Duke: Nov 14th 2007; 12:16PM

You all be argue english use and it be so funny.

Intentless: Nov 14th 2007; 12:23PM

Boredom makes people with short attention spans and high metabalisms do pointless things that have no meaning and even they don't care... Especially when I'm drinking red bull.

Trev: Nov 14th 2007; 1:02PM

Honestly, I'd accept satire as an explanation if he wasn't such a pest all the time (or had at least come up with that defense himself).

Besides, satire is good more in delivery than in content and we get no delivery here. When P.A. does it, they've got a comic with some sort of indication of tone for it. I laughed pretty hard at "Coriolis Effect" and at their Lair/1.9x firmware comic.

Satire is like trolling, but with style, humor, and the sense when the bit has gotten old. Without that, its just annoying.

samfish: Nov 14th 2007; 10:17AM

Kinda sad that this is news, when you think about it. It's like saying, "LOOK! Sony didn't completely fuck up again this time!"

arrrgh: Nov 14th 2007; 10:47AM

i thought it was laughing at how they DID fuck up, but screwed themselves so they can't really go back and fix it

Joshua: Nov 14th 2007; 10:18AM

What about PS1 games?

se37: Nov 14th 2007; 10:26AM

I wonder that too... I still play some Playstation 1 games, gotta play Final Fantasy 7 again

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School): Nov 14th 2007; 11:15AM

PS1 games still work on PS3, since its 100% software emulation. I would imagine rumble would work on those PS1 games as well.

FF7 never had rumble, however.