Sony Official PS3 SIXAXIS Wireless Controller

Refinement: The Sony Sixaxis controller is a refined version of the DualShock 2 which in turn was a refinement of the original DualShock which in turn was a refinement of the original PlayStation controller! Over the years not much has changed, if you were to take a Sixaxis back in time to 1995 the year of the original PlayStation, anyone familiar with the brand would be able to recognise its layout and looks. Look & Feel The Sixaxis is a stylish black colour, similar to the charcoal black of the later DualShock 2 controllers. The face of the controller has been cleaned up a bit, gone is the ... more

I don't think there's that much that can be said about this specific product...it's a controller. However, I'll give an account of my experiences of this controller over the past two years. I got two of these sixaxis controllers free with my PS3 so was able to rotate between using one and charging the other, hopefully allowing me to prolong the usability of the contollers. Unfortunately, after about a year and a half ( and many hours of use, 200+ ) the left analogue stick on both controllers began to squeak and stick. I'm pretty sure the analogue bashing involved in Beijing Olympics ... more

The SIXAXIS is a wireless, lightweight controller for the PS3. However, it crucially lacks the rumble facility that has since been included in the newly released DUALSHOCK 3 controller. For me, the SIXAXIS appears to have been a temporary controller bundled in with the initial batches of PS3s and available only until the technology was perfected to install rumble into the controller. Now that this has been done, the DUALSHOCK 3 is the way forward. It is exactly the same as the SIXAXIS, but feels slightly heavier (in a good way) and has rumble. The SIXAXIS has been discontinued from production ... more

When you think of a games console you think heavy, uncomfortable and always getting tangled in wires. Well not the PS3 sixaxis controller. The first point of interest is the wireless cabability of the controller. The controller uses bluetooth which allows a constant stream of information from the controller to the PS3 with no lag time. The second is because it is bluetooth the range of the controller is about 20m, you will never need this much length but it means there will be no-where in the room that you can't use it. The last point about bluetooth is that it does not need a direct ... more

Background The sixaxis oh dear wii now ps3 can do the interactive thing too not looking good is it! The original ps3 controller was much different to the one released with the beastie machine itself know only as ps3 unless you call it anything else? Anyhow the first controller design as pictured at the bottom of the screen is boomerang shaped and silver. This odd design was subject to yet more criticism from ps3 on lookers Sony later stated that the original controller "was very clearly designed as a design concept, and was never intended to be the final controller, despite what everybody said ... more