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Sony’s TGS2007 Keynote: Dual Shock 3 Announced; Home Delayed [Update]

Submitted by Paul Munn on September 20, 2007 – 12:50 am5 Comments

PS Logo Sony’s Tokyo Game Show 2007 keynote speech, delivered by Kaz Hirai, had a couple of announcements to make. First, the Dual Shock 3 is coming, bringing rumble to the SIXAXIS design in Spring 2008. A total of 11 games in development include this feature, two of which are Devil May Cry 4 and Metal Gear Solid 4. Other games can get rumble support patched in.

The Dual Shock 3 was apparently seen ahead of time attached to a demo of Burnout Paradise, so was accidentally leaked by EA ahead of Sony’s keynote, noted by Joystiq. One might assume that Burnout Paradise is a third game featuring rumble of the 11.

Also headed for “Spring 2008″ is PlayStation Home, originally slated for an October launch and since then hinted at staying in beta for the rest of this year. See our podcast last week for my feelings on what this could mean for Sony. This, along with the Dual Shock 3, was seen in Gamespot’s coverage.

Lastly, Sony will be acquiring the developer of Motorstorm as well as the developer of the Pursuit Force series of games, reports EvilAvatar.

Update #1: Sony has published two lists associated with the Dual Shock 3: one of games that already support the Dual Shock 3 and the other of games that will get support patched in. See the lists after the jump.

Update #2: Sony says the Dual Shock 3 won’t be packaged with the PS3, only sold separately, says Gamespot. I smell royalty issues.

So, why was PlayStation Home delayed? Kaz Hirai says only, “Please be patient.”

Back when the PS3 launched I wrote a little article called Sony’s Promises, Promises. Looks like I might need to update it a bit.

Update #2: The Dual Shock 3 won’t be packed in with the PS3 in the spring, only sold separately. This definitely sounds like a royalty issue to me that Immersion got to stick to Sony hard when Sony came crawling back to them for an agreement. I’d guess the only thing keeping Sony from packing it in with the PS3 would be if Sony had to pay a percentage of the console back to Immersion instead of a percentage of just the controller.

Update #1: Sony has published two lists associated with the Dual Shock 3: one of games that already support the Dual Shock 3 and the other of games that will get support patched in.

The list of games isn’t a tiny one. I’ve sorted it alphabetically just for fun, and there are titles on there that are alien to me, suggesting that they’re JP-only titles.

Out-of-the box native rumble support:
Assassin’s Creed
BEOWULF
Blacksite
Burnout Paradise
Condemned 2
Cops (codename, title name TBD)
Dark Sector
Destroy All Humans 3
Devil May Cry 4
Dynasty Warriors 6
echochrome
Elefunk
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Fatal Inertia
FIFA franchise (title name TBD)
GripShift
HAZE
Heroes over Europe
High Velocity Bowling
Highlander
Iron Man
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
Legendary: The Box
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
MLB 08: The Show
NBA 2K8
N-Cube
PAIN
Planet One (codename, title name TBD)
Prototype
RAGE
Rat Race
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
Resident Evil 5
Snakeball
SOCOM: Confrontation
Soldier of Fortune
Stuntman Ignition
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
The Club
The Crucible
The Darkness
The Incredible Hulk
TNA Wrestling
To End All Wars
TOY HOME
Turok
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
Unreal Tournament 3
Warbit
WarDevil – Unleash the Beast Within
Wheelman
WipEout HD

Future Support Via Patch -er I Mean “Software Update”
Blast Factor
Folklore
Formula One Championship Edition
Go! Sports Ski
Heavenly Sword
MotorStorm
NBA 08
Resistance: Fall of Man
Super Stardust HD
Warhawk
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas

Via EvilAvatar who linked to Pro-G.

Trev

“A delayed game can become good, but a bad game will always be bad” might apply, but is Home really a game?

Eh. For what Home will be, I’d rather it be delayed than rushed out the door.
Joe (Aeropause)

Was I the only one who noticed that it was about 25 minutes into the keynote before the PS3 was mentioned in earnest.

The delay of Home is a big deal, because that seems to be the basket that Sony is putting all their eggs into. With it being delayed for six months (estimated), one has to think what the strategy will be now?

Sony just seems to be like a deer in the headlights at this point, with the confusion over strategy. One minute they are an entertainment center, then Kaz says they are a gaming platform, now they talked about the entertainment hub again. Kaz, what is it going to be?
Van Faulk

So sony will never have the dualshock with the ps3?

Christ. i really don’t want to pay 70 bucks extra for a controller that should hav ebeen packed in from day one.
http://www.farbot.com Paul (Aeropause)

Van Faulk: Never say never, just not at launch. I’m sure the price will be the same as the current SIXAXIS (40 bucks when on sale, not 70), and if you want a second controller that’s all you will be able to buy (and who would want the old SIXAXIS anyway?

So this is really a replacement for the retail SIXAXIS.
Leon

This is great news but GTA4 and Ninja Gaiden Sigma are not on the list . I hope those games will support Dual Shock 3. I would like to know how long the DS3 can be used before it needs to be charged up like the sixaxis. My sixaxis does not need to charged more than once a month.