Playstation 3 Announcement Fallout

Sony has let their big black cat out of the bag. I think it's hilarious that after their nonsense boomerang controller concept, they reverted to decade-old design for the PS3. It's nice to know that when presented with an opportunity to improve on product design, Sony would rather...

Also interesting is the fact that they have removed the Dual-Shock force-feedback technology from the controller, replacing it with motion detectors. There was some bad press a while back about Dual-Shock, but when your competitors are doing at least force-feedback, if not that plus motion detection...

The crema here though has got to be the little nugget of letdown in the spec sheet (PDF) on the SCEI Japan site. The elements that are left out of the entry level $500 platform are the MemoryStick/SD/CF reader, 802.11 b/g connectivity, and HDMI output. So three simple steps to a lower-priced console: Take out in-house interoperability, ease-of-use network interfaces, and futureproofing output compatibility...