To think, this was almost the official PS3 controller. What a timeline that would have been.
To think, this was almost the official PS3 controller. What a timeline that would have been.
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I refuse to believe that that design was ever seriously considered.
That looks super over the top on the handles for a company from japan
If you ever got tilted you’d learn real quick to not throw your controller since it’d come right back and hit you in the head.
Banana
Something in me feels like this controller would be super comfortable to use.
I’m surprised no third party controller makers attempted to release one of their own.
I’m glad they went with the Sixaxis/Dualshock 3 controller instead.
Have owned PlayStation consoles since they started. They’ve slowly improved their controllers every gen but this would have been an odd setback. Having said that, the ps5 controller is honestly my fav. The speaker, the haptics, the r2 and l2 buttons giving different resistance depending on what you’re doing is downright impressive. Sometimes they’re incredibly tough to push
Babe, why is the PS3 controller on the nightstand?
I think the first meme I ever made was photoshopping that being thrown by Batman
Captain Boomerang was promptly fired from the design team
It’s giving star man.
It’s definitely worse than the Duke
PS3 from the Fringe alternate timeline
Play Banana
Looks like Mac Tonight or a prostate massager. /autism
I remember reading a gaming magazine in 2004 and thought it was super cool. Years later, that some dildo ahh design.
Am I the only one that wants to hold it before I judge?
For the longest time i thought that was the ps3 controller, didnt know about regular dualshocks until i visited a friend with a ps3 in 2011-12.
And y’all thought Sonic was the first time something looked like shit then got better.
How did that even make it past the drawing phase
I was there, the PS3 was supposed to have 2 Cells processors, 2 HDMI outputs, 3 ethernet ports and plenty of USB ports.
Boomerang controller throw it at the tv and it would come back and hit you that is why it was canned
Looks just horrible to hold. Like a Goa’uld glider.
Ah yes the Batterang.
This thing looks lile a pg version of a batarang 😂
I still remember the audience laughing at that controller when it was revealed. I don’t think Sony even tried to focus group that POS.
People woulda been going to the hospital with a ps controller arm stuck in their ass *way* too often. And dont tell me that wouldn’t happen, because we all know people *love* to put weird shit in their ass. No pun intended
I can imagine throwing that thing in fit of rage only for it to come around the room like a boomerang and hit me in the side of the head 🪃 💥
Truly the darkest timeline.
Did anyone ever get their hands on a prototype of that controller? Has ANYONE ever held one in their hands?
It’s such an interesting looking piece
*RIP Inbox, what have I done.*
I don’t think so, I saw this “advertised” as the PS4 build, and then years later as the PS5.
I think it’s a fan designed concept that keeps getting perpetually reposted. If we don’t see something at least incredibly similar for the next playstation, I’ll eat my own ass.
I bet an executive called for that design.
Imagine, they’re 60 years old and trying to think up the best kind of grip for a controller. Thinking hard, he recalls the item he holds comfortably every day on his way to work: His steering wheel, hands resting at 11 and 1 like old timers are apt to do… For some reason.
God bless Hideo Kojima
Alien buttplug design
Damn reminds me of having a magazine and the Nintendo Wii was called the “Revolution”.
You could rage throw it at your TV and it would just fly back to your hand.
Batarang ass controller
I’m surprised that no 3rd party vendors are making this just for novelty sake. I mean if we can have a Dragon Quest slime controller, why not the boomerang too right?