{"id":924,"date":"2007-06-15T05:00:56","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/15\/rumbling-along\/"},"modified":"2007-06-15T05:01:28","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T09:01:28","slug":"rumbling-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/15\/rumbling-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumbling Along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are rumors aplenty going around that rumble is returning to the PS3 Sixaxis controller, yet no one from Sony will confirm that a new controller is imminent this fall.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 I guess I am ignorant of all things marketing (kind of like I am ignorant of good beer), but I would think it would be a good PR move for Sony to announce that a new Sixaxis controller, complete with rumble, will be available this fall.<\/p>\n<p>While watching the Braves\/Twins games (Braves just blew a 2-0 and a great start by Hudson) I read a lot of rants about introducing a new controller.\u00a0 Why would Sony offer some sort of rebate or refund for those of us with \u201coriginal\u201d Sixaxis controllers?\u00a0 Why would Sony offer some sort of trade-in deal?\u00a0 It is funny how we have such short memories.\u00a0 I do not remember the year (let\u2019s call it 1996) Sony introduced a new dual stick analog controller for the original PlayStation.\u00a0 Shortly thereafter, Sony introduced the now famous Dual Shock controller.\u00a0 No rebates.\u00a0 No trade-ins.\u00a0 Just a take it or leave it approach.\u00a0 The Dual Shock because the standard controller.<\/p>\n<p>The current Sixaxis controller is so damn light that I am all for a new version, complete with rumble support, because I assume it would be heavier than the current version.\u00a0 Hopefully any new version would be backwards compatible with PS2 (and PSX) games, which would make the new controller a \u201cmust have\u201d for me.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are rumors aplenty going around that rumble is returning to the PS3 Sixaxis controller, yet no one from Sony will confirm that a new controller is imminent this fall.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 I guess I am ignorant of all things marketing (kind of like I am ignorant of good beer), but I would think it would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/15\/rumbling-along\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rumbling Along<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}