Sixaxis a mistake?

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Rpruett said:

Is this proven?  I see this thrown out there quite a bit.  But why does everyone say that Sony just completely copied off of Nintendo?  Maybe they decided to go with motion controls for quite sometime and it had nothing to do with Nintendo or very little.   After all,  the original PS3 controllers did not include Dual Shock.   Maybe they wanted to have some nice complimentary feature?

I hope for Sony's sake that they did just add it in reaction to Nintendo's Wii remote because if the Sixaxis is the result of a well though of attemp at motion control by Sony it's really quite pityful.

 

You could hold your controller in one hand with the sixaxis.  You certainly can swing a sword with a Sixaxis as well.  My point with the 'pointer' is simple.  If Sony wanted to implement a pointer and move in the direction of Nintendo.  It easily could be done with the technology present.

It's simply that there isn't the market for it. Not yet.

Imagine the number of broken HD TVs that would cause. The Wii remote is easy to hold and has a strap and stupid people are able to let it slip. Holding the Sixaxis by one of the ends and swinging it has disaster written all over it!