Sixaxis Controller Wins Emmy
January 8th, 2007 by Kevin Cortez in News
The Nation Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has decided to give Sony the Technology and Engineering Emmy Award for Sony’s PlayStation 3 controller. The Sixaxis controller will be honored this evening during the International Consumer Electronics Showcase 2007 in Las Vegas. Sony released a statement about this award that included a list of other awards Sony will be receiving at CES. These awards include CES Best of Innovations Award for 2007, PC World’s 20 Most Innovative Products Award, Sound & Vision’s Editor’s Choice Award and Digital Entertainment Group’s Emiel N. Petrone Digital Innovation Award. Sony rips off Nintendo, and get an Emmy for it?
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January 9th, 2007 at 12:03 am
Not the Wiimote??? wha…???
January 9th, 2007 at 12:10 am
thats the gayest thing ive ever witnessed…
January 9th, 2007 at 12:16 am
yeah that’s pretty weak… sony has obviously got their hands in people’s wallets.
January 9th, 2007 at 12:21 am
wheres the innovation? ffs, its just like politics where lies and bribes gets people somewhere.
January 9th, 2007 at 12:56 am
Sony has BMG, Columbia Tristar and other media companies involved in the Emmy’s… No way in hell Nintendo is gonna win an award there.
January 9th, 2007 at 1:04 am
Ha! Sony had to buy an award! Just to get some good publicity. The Sixaxis controller is a gimmick! There are no games for the PS3 that uses the motion sensor abilities and there will be very few games that will focus on that feature. Instead of rumble you get feature that doesnt get used at all.
January 9th, 2007 at 1:35 am
This is utter BS … bah … Sony can have it since they obviously paid handsomely for it. I agree with you 100% monir, Alex, and STD. Of course SOME IDEEOT will have something to say about this while of course downing the Wii … let’s just wait for a few more hours to pass.
January 9th, 2007 at 2:29 am
Hmmm… Hmmmm.. Hmmmmm… Well yeah. The six-axis must be better. Better meaning - hardly used, laggy, and uninnovative.
January 9th, 2007 at 2:43 am
” Sony rips off Nintendo, and get an Emmy for it? ”
How’d you figure that? last i heard, no one has reportedly landed in hospital for using the Sixaxis!
January 9th, 2007 at 2:55 am
OMG… just as I though Sony couldn’t sink any lower, this happens…
This is like giving the Nobel Peace Prize to Hitler…
January 9th, 2007 at 2:57 am
“This is like giving the Nobel Peace Prize to Hitler…”
L O L !
January 9th, 2007 at 3:03 am
I like that one Jim … so extreme and yet so on point.
Oh KJ nothing to say to that huh? So you can respect everyone but me is that it? You are so damn lame it isn’t funny … simply pathetic. And yes Sony did rip off Nintendo plain and simple and they ripped off Immersion and now they don’t want to pay so they deprive their fanbase of the cool rumble so many of them desperately want. Sony blows. You know it and you just can’t bring yourself to admit it because then you’d have to swallow what little pride you have.
January 9th, 2007 at 4:02 am
well what do you know? I have a fan!
January 9th, 2007 at 4:51 am
Umm… I’m speechless… This kinda makes me wanna go out, buy a sixaxis controller, and destroy the heck out of it…
January 9th, 2007 at 5:01 am
Yeah Ryan you are not alone.
January 9th, 2007 at 5:24 am
Mwaa…ha..ha…heehee…. Hilariously funny! Wiisnots are furious and too stupid to realise that Sony had the Patents for Sixaxis way back in 1999! So a Wii ripoff????? Yeah….Right! How about Wii ripped off Sony, that’s the truth you freakin morons.
I have a Glove motion sensing controller for PC (same exact technology as Wii). I bought 4 years ago so you’re telling me they ripped that off the Wii as well? Right? Duh… no….. duh…. I don’t think they did! Only SONY is BAD and EViL enough to go back in time and make false records!
Easy to Hate Sony for being the most innovative company this side of the moon. Easier to ignore all you Wiisnots and Xbots with the ignorant hate and lies blowing out your nose! Wake up! Get a Life and realise the industry wouldn’t be giving them these awards for nothing. Easy to hate the Winner and make excuses for why your wasted fandom hasn’t helped your cheap WiiGypted console to win anything!
January 9th, 2007 at 5:42 am
There you with calling people morons again … this really needs to be addressed by the admin …
Can’t you read?
“Keep the language as clean as possible and respect others.”
And if Nintendo had actually ripped Sony off we all know Sony would be all over them. The truth is that Sixaxis thing is crap imho of course compared to the Wiimote and most everyone knows it … can you control many other things with it like you can with the Wiimote? No you can’t so I fail to see any real innovation with this product and most of the people on this thread seem to feel the same way. Period. So maybe it is you who need to get a life … and remember the real winner is who is being purchased by the consumers and who the game critics are lauding … and that as we well know is Nintendo. The PS3 is failing miserably when compared to the Wii … and we are talking about the present time not some far off future. Even the PSP is getting it’s butt kicked by the superior DS. So boo to Sony and I stick by what I say about this being a paid off award.
January 9th, 2007 at 5:52 am
What a disaster. It smells like money under the table, if it weren’t because I just refuse to beleive that. Be sure to youtube the ceremony video where they shows how it works. I wonder, does any game support the thing yet?
And off topic, are there any soccer games available for the PS3?
January 9th, 2007 at 5:56 am
Yeah, nintenod was completely ripped off here: nothing is more innovative and remarkable as the wii remote. To think that the PS3’s crappy controller won over the technologically advanced wii remote is just facinating.
January 9th, 2007 at 6:49 am
Monarky, you are telling OTHER people to get a life when you say things like wiisnots, xbots, wiigypted and sony. sad sad life you lead, get a wife so she can control you and clean up your mess of a life.
January 9th, 2007 at 6:49 am
Mattel made the Power Glove for the NES.
Some intelligent fellow combined the glove and Wiimote.
Nintendo licensed a mat with 8 control buttons for the NES as well, an item we could compare to the Dance Dance Revolution mat.
Many items that came with Nintendo back in the day, even ones that not everyone knows about, we can probably thank them for having better versions of today.
January 9th, 2007 at 7:50 am
Monarky: Even if it’s older, it’s still sh!t compared to the Wiimote. The only people who’d disagree with that are blind sony fanboys.
January 9th, 2007 at 7:51 am
Nice point Evander.
January 9th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
Few interesting facts you might not know about Nintendo and innovation from an article I read a while ago. Nintendo has invented a lot more than you’d think:
D-pad - The little cross controller we all used to play games on. In 1980 Nintendo developed that for their Game and Watch LCD handheld games as it was much more compact than joysticks found on arcade machines.
Light gun - The NES saw the first home console gun which gave birth to all the shooting games today
Xbox Live (hub) - In Japan the Famicom/NES (think 1980s) had a modem which allowed owners to receive messages from Nintendo
Voice-recognition - The Japanese NES (Famicom) had a built in microphone in the controller and featured the very first voice-recognition system in gaming
First changeable game cartridges for a handheld - Game Boy (1989)
Shoulder buttons - SNES 1993 think how cluttered your six-axis would be without them
Playstation - Well ok a little harsh but in Japan Nintendo began working on an add-on CD based game system for its SNES games console in the mid nineties. Nintendo approached Sony to make the CD drive for this system. The two companies worked together on it for a year then there was a falling out and Nintendo dumped Sony for Panasonic. Sony took the prototype it had been working on with the big Nintendo and adapted it to work as a stand-alone console……….. Enter the Playstation aka Super Nintendo CD. (just look at the PS joypad for proof its a SNES controller with wings)
This was without a doubt Nintendo’s biggest mistake as if they had stuck with Sony it might have never entered the games market alone.
Online gaming - Everyone thinks Nintendo didn’t do this til DS, theyre wrong. In Japan Nintendo created an add-on for the SNES called Satellaview in 1995. This add-on allowed new levels for existing games and new titles to be downloaded for the Super Nintendo.
Nintendo took online gaming a step further with the N64 by bringing out a service called RandnetDD for the 64DD which was a subscription based service which allowed players to play games online, send email and download new content (Current Xbox Live anyone?) This only launched in Japan again.
Analogue controller (1997)- N64 featured the first analogue stick. PS still used the D-pad at the time and it was much later that Sony conceived (read stole) the idea and realised the dual-shock pad for the Playstation.
Force feedback (1997) - N64 also featured the first rumble technology. Sony tried to rip this off too but stole from the wrong company and got sued (see the court case which cost them millions last year)
Wireless gamepad (2001) - Before Xbox 360 etc Nintendo designed and released the Wavebird for the N64 the first fully wireless gamepad
First handheld featuring touch-screen, voice recognition and wireless gameplay - Nintendo DS
Love or hate Nintendo you can not dispute that gaming would be very different today without them. I’m sure other people would have developed things but we may very well have no portable gaming, no online gaming, no simple control methods and no Playstation.
Sony on the other hand has never really innovated on anything. Don’t take this as an attack and get all fan-boyish they do very well but their strategy is to borrow and implement the best technology available rather than develop anything new in gaming. Its worked well for them, but they can never claim to be innovative.
So finally lets look at Sixaxisas this is what the topics about - Features analogue sticks (Nintendo), D-pad (Nintendo), Shoulder buttons (Nintendo), USB charging point (Xbox360), Motion sensitive play (Microsoft PC / Wii depending who you want to credit), Design (SNES / Classic Playstation)
January 9th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Wow very nice post Ruined. Interesting to read. And some nice points.
January 9th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Excellent, intelligent, fact filled post Ruined. The kind I totally respect.
January 9th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Nintendo has been around since about 1969 making toys for kids. They made their “Beam Guns” since they opened. In the 70’s they had remote controlled cars. They created a computer mahjohn, unsure of the year, and TV-Game 6, a ping pong player (with analog sticks it looks like) in 1977 which sold about a million in Japan. You can check pictures out here:
http://squirl.info/collection/show/465
January 10th, 2007 at 12:05 am
“But no I don’t call the ps3 innovative. The new shiny techniques they use I do like though. The wii has a very innovative controller, but for the rest it’s all the same. Lets hope it translates to new games and gamemechanics. But yeah it’s not ‘REAL’ innovation. However it is for the console market, yes.”
I agree with you totally its about choice. PS3 provides Blu Ray player and high def graphics in a package. If that is what u want from gaming then it is the right choice.
Wii offers innovative control methods and a heap of neat functions. Its games include quirky things to appeal to non-gamers and is the right choice for people who value fun over power.
I think in very broad terms the breakdown is roughly as follows
Technology fans / gadget fanatics - PS3
Hardcore gamers / ex-PC gamers - Xbox 360
Non-gamers / mainstream - Wii
Obviously people will buy both and so on but as a business model each has enough differences to attract a different audience. e.g. the non-gamer types probably dont know what High Def is and think Blu Ray is a type of fish so PS3 would be pointless for them.
January 10th, 2007 at 2:23 am
Small innovations are still innovations. I’d rather have shoulder buttons than not have them.
January 10th, 2007 at 2:32 am
this is almost as sacreligious as giving nintendo an emmy for the “Z” button on the gamecube… worst button ever lol… still 100% nintendo fan though
January 10th, 2007 at 3:10 am
Yeah I lost my cool … I admit it … I’m human and it could happen to anyone … but I don’t go around starting fights (I certainly didn’t start that BS on the Logitech thread but I did let people get to me … hey I was having a really bad day and it was easy to push my buttons yesterday so yeah I do need to watch that) and starting posts off with calling people morons and such.
So you say that you are going to avoid that behavior in the future and be more positive … and that is all good. We shall see how long that last though. It does sound like you thought about this for a bit so I do congratulate you on that and I agree with what you said about all of us just being more respectful of our varying opinions and using more facts to back up what we say when we can. And there is no way insults will ever work at making someone see your POV so kudos on coming to that realization as well.
January 10th, 2007 at 3:13 am
Also I do keep saying that eventually I know I will own a PS3 so obviously I hope they make some much needed major strides in game quality with their developer partners and value by slashing the price somewhat. So I am not bashing them just to bash them … if only it were that simple … rather I am just saying that for NOW … at the present time they are just not cutting it (which is why they are trailing behind even the Wii) and they have to do something … I think everyone can see that pretty clearly.
January 10th, 2007 at 3:45 am
after all these comments about innovation and sony and stuff, it doesn’t prove that sony sixaxis deserved the emmy, if anything its nintendo’s wii-mote.
January 10th, 2007 at 4:40 am
The Emmy Award for Peripheral Development and Technological Impact of Video Game Controllers
Nintendo
Sony Computer Entertainment America
Here’s another link: http://www.emmyonline.org/emmy/advmedia_winners_release.html
Nintendo won one too but I’m not sure if its for the Wii Remote or for the D-Pad, though both are revolutionary.
January 10th, 2007 at 8:51 am
Well that’s really not our decision to make for them. That wasn’t the only Award Sony got for their system ! And yes I agree Wii should get something for their efforts a very fun versatile system of game play.
It’s a mix of people who vote on these things. Some are are techs and some are just regular industry people who don’t have time to even look at the different systems, they just read something and vote. That’s it! So I wouldn’t make a big deal out of this. Gamers vote with their dollars and the vote right now is for the Nintendo Wii!
January 10th, 2007 at 10:56 am
***Alert***
Sony did not get an award for Sixaxis! But both Nintendo and Sony got awards for their older controllers. Sony did get another award for the Xross Media Bar on PSP and PS3. Hope this clears this up!
http://www.emmyonline.org/emmy/advmedia_winners_release.html
January 10th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
You are just becoming so good … it makes me smile. And yes of course D&D started it all. I used to play it back when I was in Jr. High in ‘79. Thanks for the RPG history lesson.
February 2nd, 2007 at 6:08 am
ignorantly disregarding all the above posts, i was wondering why sony left the ruble behind, was is space in the controller or the effect it would have on the sixaxis thingymajig. couldn’t they just have both and alternate between them,so wjen it rumbles, the sixaxis is momenterally turned off, and vice versa.
February 29th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Pioneer has been an innovator of optical disc technology since it brought LaserDisc, the precursor to DVD, to market in 1980. Pioneer went on to introduce the first DVD writer for computer use in 1997, the first DVD recorder as a VCR replacement in 1999, the first DVD/CD writer for home computer users in 2001 and surpassed 5 million sales of DVD writers in 2003. The company now leads the market with the introduction of this new Blu-ray Disc drive. Pioneer Corporation is one of the Blu-ray Disc Founders.