And the Emmy goes to......

RidleySaria

The Sixaxis.

No, really.

The PlayStation 3's Sixaxis controller has been honoured with an award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

The Technology and Engineering Emmy Award comes as the console manufacturer also revealed it has shipped one million units of its PlayStation 3 to North American retailers.

"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," commented Jack Tretton, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America.

"The full potential of this powerful machine has yet to be realised. What you've seen so far is just a taste of what will be on the table for 2007 and years to come," he added.

The Sixaxis controller has added motion sensing technology to re-define the original Dual Shock controller, detecting natural, real-time movements, along with input via pressure sensitive buttons, analogue sticks and triggers.

Sony's PlayStation 3 has also picked up the CES Best of Innovations Award for 2007, PC World's 20 Most Innovative Products Award, Sound and Vision's Editor's Choice Award and a Digital Innovation Award from the Digital Entertainment Group.

I don't even know how to express myself on this one.

Doronron

Looks like a couple of key people just got handed some very large "donations".

Aldo

Wiimote no good?

Maybe Nintendo just didn't bribe them enough...

chaossoldier

Aldo wrote:

Wiimote no good?

Maybe Nintendo just didn't bribe them enough...

I repeat. Nintendo wasn't at CES. These awards are only for things at CES

variant

This is so much bullshit :lol:
:roll:

Aldo

chaossoldier wrote:

Aldo wrote:

Wiimote no good?

Maybe Nintendo just didn't bribe them enough...

I repeat. Nintendo wasn't at CES. These awards are only for things at CES

What is CES?

So this is kind of a non-issue? Sony beats Microsoft; so what?

chaossoldier

Aldo wrote:

chaossoldier wrote:

Aldo wrote:

Wiimote no good?

Maybe Nintendo just didn't bribe them enough...

I repeat. Nintendo wasn't at CES. These awards are only for things at CES

What is CES?

So this is kind of a non-issue? Sony beats Microsoft; so what?

Consumer Electronics expo.

It's like E3 for general electronics rather than just games.

Akatsuki

This makes me laugh.

JAEF

Akatsuki wrote:

This makes me die a little inside.

Cherrn

RidleySaria wrote:

"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," commented Jack Tretton, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America.

What? Where?

Olivaw

Sony's PlayStation 3 has also picked up the CES Best of Innovations Award for 2007, PC World's 20 Most Innovative Products Award, Sound and Vision's Editor's Choice Award and a Digital Innovation Award from the Digital Entertainment Group.

Remember when we used to make jokes and be all "lol sony is so innovative?"

Apparently some people thought they weren't jokes.

Aldo

chaossoldier wrote:

Aldo wrote:

chaossoldier wrote:

Aldo wrote:

Wiimote no good?

Maybe Nintendo just didn't bribe them enough...

I repeat. Nintendo wasn't at CES. These awards are only for things at CES

What is CES?

So this is kind of a non-issue? Sony beats Microsoft; so what?

Consumer Electronics expo.

It's like E3 for general electronics rather than just games.

Ah, that explains, thankees.

Now this thread will reach 20 pages of "no Wii, lol?" anyway, but at least you have taught one forumer something!

Kewop Decam

ToadTheMushroom

Dont worry, Nintendo dont know about this yet. Their HQ is completely blocked up with the huge piles of cash that has been trucked in. Its like a ball pit at some fairground, only instead of balls it is wads of cash, and instead of little children it is a hundred tiny japanese businessmen in suits.

Aldo

Kewop Decam wrote:

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That is one awesome suit.

Kewop Decam

Aldo wrote:

Kewop Decam wrote:

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That is one awesome suit.

of course, a black dude was wearing it

Target Practice

Ow, ow, ow, my brainmeats!

...also, "Technology and Engineering" award? Since when do the Emmys have one of those?

And has it always been awarded to things that only have the most peripheral relation to television?

SeñorAmor

Cherrn wrote:

RidleySaria wrote:

"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," commented Jack Tretton, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America.

What? Where?

Walked into Wal-Mart yesterday and they had 2 PS3s in the case. No Wiis tho.

Elessar Elfstone

I usually dont give a shit about this kind of stuff but that makes me sad in pants.

Drez

variant wrote:

This is so much bullshit :lol:
:roll:

Neuromancer reference?

apotheos

Drez wrote:

variant wrote:

This is so much bullshit :lol:
:roll:

Neuromancer reference?

I find the notion of a television tuned to a dead channel very relevant to the Emmy awards.

Lew Zealand

Target Practice wrote:

...also, "Technology and Engineering" award? Since when do the Emmys have one of those?

There are a lot more Emmy awards than the ones they give to actors. It's just that everyone is more interested in Elisha Cuthbert's cleavage rather than the cleavage of the guy who edits Survivor so the techie awards don't get airtime.

Zephos

THIS is why we cant have nice things.

Athenor

Okay, so Sony gave the Emmys some money hats. They applied them to the wrong thing (they should've applied it to the PS3's blu-ray, or the convergence aspects, not the controller that's barely changed in 10 years), but that's easily overlooked.

the question becomes simple, then: Will they hand out this "special" award during the Emmy telecast? Part of me thinks no, because there's no way to spin this that doesn't look like they are shilling. But another part of me thinks yes, because that's what Sony wants.

Target Practice

Lew Zealand wrote:

Target Practice wrote:

...also, "Technology and Engineering" award? Since when do the Emmys have one of those?

There are a lot more Emmy awards than the ones they give to actors. It's just that everyone is more interested in Elisha Cuthbert's cleavage rather than the cleavage of the guy who edits Survivor so the techie awards don't get airtime.

Well yeah, but one would think that "Technology and Engineering" award would have something to do with television, wouldn't you?

I mean, the only thing the PS3 has to do with television is that it connects to one.

Zephos

THIS JUST IN...


EA games wins oscar for quote "Being So Cool!"

Goomba

So the... "sixaxis" is kinda innovative to use with a TV, if you don't look at the Wii.

I mean it connects to the thing that connects to the TV.

Right guys?

SpeedySwaf

chaossoldier wrote:

I repeat. Nintendo wasn't at CES. These awards are only for things at CES.

Hoz

Sony is falling and hitting every fucking backlash branch they possibly can on the way down. I'm not saying this is them being assholes. I really think the universe is against Sony.

Zephos

now if this award were for the commercials i'd be fine with it. since you know, its an Emmy. and some of the commercials are quite good.

Athenor

SpeedySwaf wrote:

chaossoldier wrote:

I repeat. Nintendo wasn't at CES. These awards are only for things at CES.

That leads to a pair of questions, then.

1) Why weren't Nintendo at the CES?

2) Why is this award, billing itself as an Emmy, being given out at CES? Shouldn't it be handed out a bit later in the year?

Soviet Waffle

There's a method to this.

1)Random award is given to Sony
2)Info gets posted here
3)2000 posts that happend in the last thread similar to this.

Just chill guys.

We'll let sales charts decide who's technical innovations are actually doing what they're supposed to do, ala, sell.

final_sun

ToadTheMushroom wrote:

Dont worry, Nintendo dont know about this yet. Their HQ is completely blocked up with the huge piles of cash that has been trucked in. Its like a ball pit at some fairground, only instead of balls it is wads of cash, and instead of little children it is a hundred tiny japanese businessmen in suits.

This needs to be a DS game. Picturing Mario vs. Donkey Kong mini style Iwata and Miyamoto rolling around in the money pit = :lol:

Back OT, what's next, that 'yo, all I needz fo ' Christmas is the PSP, fo' realz son' kid wins a Grammy?

Doronron

Athenor wrote:

SpeedySwaf wrote:

chaossoldier wrote:

I repeat. Nintendo wasn't at CES. These awards are only for things at CES.

That leads to a pair of questions, then.

1) Why weren't Nintendo at the CES?

2) Why is this award, billing itself as an Emmy, being given out at CES? Shouldn't it be handed out a bit later in the year?

They're getting two awards. One is an Emmy. The other is an award for innovation from the CES going on in Vegas.

PikaPuff

Lew Zealand wrote:

Target Practice wrote:

...also, "Technology and Engineering" award? Since when do the Emmys have one of those?

There are a lot more Emmy awards than the ones they give to actors. It's just that everyone is more interested in Elisha Cuthbert's cleavage rather than the cleavage of the guy who edits Survivor so the techie awards don't get airtime.

Pics or I can't fap to it.

chaossoldier

Athenor wrote:

SpeedySwaf wrote:

chaossoldier wrote:

I repeat. Nintendo wasn't at CES. These awards are only for things at CES.

That leads to a pair of questions, then.

1) Why weren't Nintendo at the CES?

2) Why is this award, billing itself as an Emmy, being given out at CES? Shouldn't it be handed out a bit later in the year?

1. Nintendo doesn't participate in CES. Just not their kind of thing. It's a general electronics show.

2. The Emmy people do claim to be siding with science in their official name "National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences." so they just give out one of these every year kinda like "Oh..technology. You have a brand name. Here."

CyberJackal

Cheers to the OP for rabble-rousing. Would it be too much to ask to know what the competition actually was before I get all outraged?

Drez

apotheos wrote:

Drez wrote:

variant wrote:

This is so much bullshit :lol:
:roll:

Neuromancer reference?

I find the notion of a television tuned to a dead channel very relevant to the Emmy awards.

LOL. Very nice.

PikaPuff

CyberJackal wrote:

Cheers to the OP for rabble-rousing. Would it be too much to ask to know what the competition actually was before I get all outraged?

It worked for joystiq, so it must be a great idea to do in here.

OPs have been shit lately.

jothki

Soviet Waffle wrote:

There's a method to this.

1)Random award is given to Sony
2)Info gets posted here
3)2000 posts that happend in the last thread similar to this.

Just chill guys.

We'll let sales charts decide who's technical innovations are actually doing what they're supposed to do, ala, sell.

But whining about this kind of thing is fun.

Cameron_Talley

chaossoldier wrote:

Athenor wrote:

SpeedySwaf wrote:

chaossoldier wrote:

I repeat. Nintendo wasn't at CES. These awards are only for things at CES.

That leads to a pair of questions, then.

1) Why weren't Nintendo at the CES?

2) Why is this award, billing itself as an Emmy, being given out at CES? Shouldn't it be handed out a bit later in the year?

1. Nintendo doesn't participate in CES. Just not their kind of thing. It's a general electronics show.

2. The Emmy people do claim to be siding with science in their official name "National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences." so they just give out one of these every year kinda like "Oh..technology. You have a brand name. Here."

Nintendo USED to participate in CES, but they pulled out to concentrate on their now defunct-Spaceworld and E3, where they could get more (Positive) attention.

However, now that E3 is gone (for all intents and purposes) and Spaceworld is gone, too, perhaps Nintendo should think about going back to CES. I wouldn't be surprised....