Comments on: PS3 Controller Design is a Ripoff!

By: J

Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:03:33 +0000

Alps still exists. They make trackpoint doohickeys for Dell laptops.

By: eddie

eddie — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 05:34:42 +0000

the ps3 controller looks tight and very comfortable you could tell it looked small how close the buttons where and love the design i don’t no y people are hatting on it i think the xbox controllers kinda suck even the 360 they have the buttons spread and its small

By: Chad

Chad — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 04:15:52 +0000

I own two of the Alps controllers (the special edition red and the standard blue) and they are the most comfortable controllers I have ever used. The D-Pad took awhile to break in, but once it was there wasn’t anything smoother or better for d-pad sweep moves for Street Fighter, etc. If the PS3 controller is based on the alps controller I would be really pleased. I would still be using the alps controllers today if they had the analog sticks, etc. required for todays PS2 games. I do still get it out when I want to play some old fashioned street fighter because there just isn’t anything better, IMO.

By: matt

matt — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:00:11 +0000

ps3′s controller is a rip or they did buy the company out. lots of people think the ps3 controller is crazy yet these guys were still ballsey enough to do it 8 years back. this idea is really original, i doubt sony pulled it out of their ass.

By: mrhurtalot

mrhurtalot — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:23:48 +0000

omg its got shoulder buttons. RIPOFF OF SNES!
omg its uses up down left right! R/O of NES!
omg it plugs in!? RIPOFF of the POWERCABLE!

By: BobbyChristopher

BobbyChristopher — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 00:25:30 +0000

*ps2 – ps3
*edit

By: BobbyChristopher

BobbyChristopher — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 00:24:53 +0000

The controller for ps2 looks like this thing, but the coin has two sides. Yea the controller design looks like the Alps version, but just think of what features the ps3 controller has. It has bluetooth and much other things. Alps is dead as I understand, and Sony is to the point where they can care less. One of their devs coulda made a brand new style controller, but was probably like “Yo, screw this dude, lets revive the old Alps throwaway model and trick it out.” Regardless, ps3 is gonna be awesome. So for the guy who said the devs suck for Sony? No dice.

By: Deacon Nikolai

Deacon Nikolai — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 00:19:23 +0000

Not a rip-off at all when looking at both in 3-D.

By: lee

lee — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 00:03:45 +0000

lol,what a joke,all controllers are based on older versions..duh

By: ProZaC

ProZaC — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 00:01:25 +0000

Its a good chance that Sony owns part of this company, or at least has some sort of contract with them. These days, Alps seems to make a lot of touchpad pointing devices for laptops, and the Sony VAIO im typing on right now has one. I’m too lazy to look into the matter further :)

By: Si Brindley

Si Brindley — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 23:49:10 +0000

“I think it is obvious to everyone that this is almost identical to the PS3 controller…”

Almost identical? *Hardly* identical. Both controllers are like PS2 controllers but with extended wings, forming a boomerang shape. That’s where the similarity ends.

Different colours
Different D-pads
Different shaped wings
Different in the centre
Different position of Select / Start
One has two analogue controls.

In short: What are you on about!?

By: linead

linead — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 23:48:19 +0000

It sort of looks like it, not a great deal though.

By: cvncpu

cvncpu — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 23:42:56 +0000

wow, I am sure that the PS3 devs are totaly unoriginal, and they were left with no choice but to rip off some lame ass 3rd party controller that no one has ever seen before

By: TJ

TJ — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 23:40:39 +0000

I did a quick search and found thier old website on http://www.archive.org. I happened to find a few things about it.
a 3D view of the controller.
http://img504.imageshack.us/my.php?image=alpsgamepad5xx.gif

and a full webpage.
http://web.archive.org/web/19980209231958/http://interactive.alps.com/index.html

By: Jordan

Jordan — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 23:29:29 +0000

Yes, the design is fantastic, actually. I’ve used the controller in question. The PS3 controller looks a bit streamlined… but otherwise the design is largely unchanged… dow n to the “teardrop buttons”.

By: Daine

Daine — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 23:10:40 +0000

thatzs reely great

By: hahaha

hahaha — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 22:54:28 +0000

hahaha

By: ps3

ps3 — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 22:44:25 +0000

is it possible that sony acquired this company? is it possible that your acusation of “ripoff”, is in fact not? perhaps sony acquired this company in order to use the controller?

you should really look into this before you post something as a ripoff

By: strife

strife — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 21:55:24 +0000

are you serious? if you look at any history of controllers you can see that its all based off of previous generations of controllers. Shouting that its a ripoff is lame, of course its going to resemble whatever. What do you think people said about the first ps controller?

By: Aj Collins

Aj Collins — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 21:46:28 +0000

The company doesnt even exist anymore!! Im shure that Sony got the rights to make it if someone owned the rights.