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Dual Shock 3 In Stores Now
Evander
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I am TOTALLY sitting here with mine.
$54.99 + tax
Black only
Let's celebrate!
$54.99 + tax
Black only
Let's celebrate!
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But what choice do we have? At least we finally have rumble.
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It feels perfect, weight wise
not at all flimsy like the SA
That price...ouch. Why so much?
Passing down the rumble royalty fees to the customer?
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Plus the lawsuit fees.
They're right bastards, but nyko's 3rd party controller w/rumble costs $59.99, so whatcha gonna do?
I think it's down to $10.00
a few weeks ago it was $22.00
We should probably blame MS.
Wait, so PS3 games have had rumble all along, and we've just been waiting for Sony to provide a controller that enables it?
Since the Japanese DS3 release, at least.
Plus, it says Dualshock 3 SIXAXIS on top of it, which is rather hilarious.
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What? Why? Because they told Sony and Nintendo how to price their accessories!
Yeah, pretty much. Although not all PS3 games support it. I think pretty much all SCEA games support it.
I'm happy that the PS3 is a console where not every single game forces you to do the waving-around thing like the Wii. I'm not trying to turn this into a PS3 vs Wii thing. I'm just saying I'm perfectly happy with the balance it has made between the motion-controls and the standard gaming controls.
(Thus, the SIXAXIS does more than just let you push buttons, it has a motion sensor)
Nintendo charges you $39.99 for a controller that has rumble, motion, a speaker, and an infrared camera.
Sony wants $54.99 for just rumble and motion.
Regardless, let's drop the comparisions. This is NOT some thread to argue about systems in.
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Yeah, what the fuck is up with that?
It's not like it doesn't already have rumble on th 360.
Just sayin'.
Yet still I will buy one.
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psst
That's because you were.
I'm still contemplating getting an import white one instead of the black one. Does anyone know if the two weigh the same?
Do you mean that Sony pays Foxconn (or whomever) $37 to build them, or that Best Buy (or whomever) pays Sony $37 wholesale?
Where are the transport costs being figured in?
*pokes the ghost of dualshocks past*
Less than double on the dollar per unit? Say it ain't so!
Whats this? A company making money on a product?!?!?!?!
MADNESS!!!!!!!!!
Come to think of it, Threep almost certainly means that Best Buy, Walmart, etc. pay $37 a pop for them and not that the cost of materials for Sony to build them is $37, given Threep's background.
This.
And I'm fine with the profit on it, the 360 controller has similar margins and the Wii... with the nunchuck? It's no wonder they're riding a tidal wave of cash. A cash tsunami, wiping out greater parts of Japan, if you will.
Either way, I would pay 100 dollars just to get rid off this crappy plastic SIXAXIS. Say what you want about the Dreamcast controller and the Duke, but the SIXAXIS is the worst first party controller ever made. It's even partly to blame for me having not touched my PS3 in months outside of blu ray playing.
While four remotes are almost a necessity I could easily see myself getting away with only two nunchucks.
edit: and two wiimotes are more than adequate, given that Smash Bros and Mario Kart both work with GC controllers.
Before the PS3 was the S-Type, then NES Advantage for me, so not a lot of console background. SIXAXXXES is ok, maybe a little too lightweight.
But the real question is, is it adequate to have less than four GC controllers?
Hell no. Getting back up to four working wavebirds was quite a fucking task.