Sony striking out?

[FreeRadical]

Controversy surrounds SIXAXIS Emmy Award

Wednesday 10-Jan-2007 12:54 PM Sony's 'SIXAXIS wins Emmy' mix-up put right by NATAS

Since Sony reported on Monday that the PS3's SIXAXIS controller had won a Technology and Engineering Emmy Award, the Emmy governing body, NATAS, has issued a statement to confirm that this claim is inaccurate, and the award was in fact given to the Dual Shock controller.

When blogger, Séamus Byrne, contacted NATAS after his disbelief that Nintendo hadn't taken the award for innovations of the Wii Remote, he received a reply confirming: "Sony did not win for their PS3 controller, they won for their Dual Shock Analog controller."

The statement confirms: "The award is from the Video Game Technology Group. It was nominated by our internal group and considered along with the Nintendo D-Pad both of which were considered Emmy worthy for the development of the generation of controllers that followed the classic joysticks."

An innocent mistake on Sony's part, or intentionally misleading information? Sony was not available for comment at the time of writing.


http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=154419

Sony really needs to sort it's self out. The PS3 deserves a chance, but Sony is becoming a laughing stock.

 

[Brainiac 8]

That is interesting. I like Sony, but they deffinatly spout alot of silly things. I hope they didn't really issue that statement to get people to buy more PS3s.

Like was mentioned earlier, if a controller was to win based on motion capabilities, I think the Wii would have taken that hands down.

 

[Doctor of Doom]

Resistance is certainly not a killer app- someone said it was earlier in the thread. To be a killer app, it has to be a game which sells consoles. Resistance does NOT sell consoles. It is NOT a killer app. What it IS is a really brilliant game.