My SIXAXIS Act is Getting Old

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My SIXAXIS Act is Getting Old

Submitted by James Munn on April 21, 2007 – 12:41 pm11 Comments

My new PS3 has been asking me this question, over and over, for the past week. “Can you control me now? How about now? Now?” I hope SIXAXIS are supposed to lose connection to my PS3 randomly as I play games, otherwise it’s seriously flawed.

We’ve mentioned this before, Richard blogged about it back in November. At the time, I thought it was an isolated issue with Resistance only and in rare occasions. Unfortunately, now that I have a PS3 and have used it extensively for the past week, I can report honestly that it happens in every game I play.

By “every game I play” I mean, every session I sit down to play a game the controller will lose it’s connection with the PS3 for about 3 or 4 seconds. At that point, whatever button press or direction will be looped until control is restored. I haven’t found any pattern for the error and it happens to both of my controllers whether they’re fully charged or not.

Why haven’t PS3 owners blown up about this, do they simply not have anything to play? Do you simply accept this thinking that this kind of controller disconnect happens with the 360? I’d bet they’d be surprised to hear that this has NEVER happened even once to me with a 360 controller, ever. I’ve also never had to sync a 360 controller once, ever, since I bought the launch system used almost a year ago. Can PS3 owners ring in below and tell me how often this happens to them and how often they actually play?

If this nightmare continues, I’ll be forced to give Sony a ring’a'ding to see what the F is up with this monster in my wall unit. It’s absolutely, 100% unacceptable.

Trev

I haven’t EVER had this problem, I usually put in a couple hours a day on my PS3 either playing the short stack of PS3 games or the huge pile of PS2 games I have. Maybe I’m lucky or maybe its something else.

I wonder if it’s something environmental, like the PS3 is sensitive to some other bluetooth or wireless signal and chokes briefly while it switches it’s channel. One of those FCC “This device must bend over and take it if there’s an external signal messing with it” things.
Bill

I remember hearing about this kind of thing early on. That’s the kind of issue that would drive me insane. I think you should persue the issue with Sony to see if they’ll acknowledge it and resolve it, and then report back on the site. In the end, you may have to become a wired PS3 gamer. Next-Gen indeed.
http://www.routermall.com used cisco

Sounds environmental to me. Or the transmitter in your PS3 is flaky.
Kyle

Isn’t the controller bluetooth or something different? (I honestly have no idea, just a guess.) Maybe that’s why.

But seriously, that has happened to me too. Now, I don’t have a PS3 of my own; its my cousin’s. But I have experienced what you are talking about several times.
Ryan

I haven’t ever had this problem either. Launch PS3 that I play an hour or so every night. Madden/NBA Street/MK2 mostly, but I’ve rented several other games. I’d go with environmental too, but I have WiFi and two sets of cordless phones on different frequencies. I don’t know what else may be out there that may be affecting you, unless it’s your PS3 or ‘troller.
http://www.farbot.com/ Paul Munn

This happened to me once for a split second.

This might be a silly question, but have you tried another SIXAXIS controller with it? If so you could just need a new controller instead of having to send the whole hulking behemoth in to Sony — then again exchanging it at the store would be much less painful.
http://wanderingcrosshair.blogspot.com/ rem

doesn’t happen when i let her rest for a bit

only during marathons…

like a hiccup

guessing here but…

maybe she needs a reboot

…reset the six axis gyroscope?

or maybe it/her just needs a spanking?

like an option to set off functions via another firmware nobody (any serious gamer) uses the tilt effect thingy anyways.
http://wanderingcrosshair.blogspot.com/ rem

i bought two controllers and one of the two has a much shorter recharge lifespan

note to ed.

u guys should set up a new category (or sub category) just for the six axis
htiawe

Get it exchanged, if problem persists – then whine. Otherwise, stop.
mr.dx

I have never had this problem and once in mi friends house i took my ps3 and we made a test and we took the controler 30 feet of range and it workt i had to scream to him to tell him to come back.And me and mi brother made a test o nthe 369 dude we play and when i move 8 feet a way i have to come back it really sucks so call sony and tell theme that you got a problem in the ps3.
Mildiien

The first time this happened to me I wasn’t really too worried, however like the poster of this article this littler error seems to occur at least ONCE during each of my gaming sessions. It doesn’t matter if it’s a PS3/PS2/PS Game in the drive, no matter what at one point during the session my controller would spasm outand fully stop functioning for 3-4 seconds, after which time it just kicks back in. I’ve never actually looked down at the controller during this time period, so i’m unaware if any of the lights start flashing or anything.

Also In response to the guy above who states “Get it exchanged, if problem persists – then whine. Otherwise, stop” – I’m sorry if i’m not quick to run to the exchange line with my $600 PS3 over a controller problem that OBVIOUSLY many others are encountering. I hope sony can find a way to fix this problem, and if it happens to be from an exchange i would be more then happy to; As long as they send me the new sixaxis first so i can test to ensure there are no problems, and so i don’t miss out on any gaming time .