Rumblings of Vibrating SIXAXIS Now A Shaky Reality

We're a little late in picking up this story, but hey, Sony was late in finally getting on with it anyway. The press converged just a few days ago at the world-reknowned Tokyo Game Show in Japan (who'd a thunk?) last weekend. There to give Sony's keynote was none other than SCEA President Kaz Hirai. He announced what every Sony fan (and quite frankly, gamer) has been waiting for. The PS3 controller finally has rumble, and the DualShock 3, jokingly called the RumbleAXIS, releases this April for an unspecified price.

It is notable that this is technically still a DualShock controller. Sony and Immersion have settled on Immersion's claim of patent infringement, and the two have apparently reached an agreement in which Sony can continue to implement DualShock technology.

This is great news of course, though the persistent rumors and sheer inevitability of the announcement made it a bit too anticlimactic to be Sony's "big" announcement at TGS, as they made it out to be.
[via Joystiq]

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FFXIII Officially(ish) PS3 Exclusive

Kotaku's Flynn De Marco braved Square Enix's Closed Mega Theater presentation today at the Tokyo Game Show, and after watching the Final Fantasy XIII trailer, he was treated to text at the end stating "For PS3 Only." There it is, my friends: plain as day. Final Fantasy XIII is a Playstation 3 exclusive, at least according to this TGS video. Of course, fully official confirmation still needs to be given, but lets consider 360-Final-Fantasy-XIII rumors to be effectively punched in the face and subsequently beaten with a SIXAXIS.

The collective groans and sighs from fanboys on the 360 and PS3 sides respectively were accidentally registered as small earthquakes in observation stations around the world today.
[via Kotaku]

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