Posted Nov 14, 2008 at 11:51AM by Gino D.
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 Back when the PS3 Wireless Keypad was announced back in LGC 08, everyone expected it to arrive sometime this month. Sony wasn't all too clear about it either, but now, it seems that everyone's expectations have been waylaid.At the BMO Capital Makets conference in New York yesterday, Sony has confirmed that the Keypad attachment will be arriving in December instead - the first week of December, specifically. This probably applies for North America. No specific word for Europe, but last we heard, Japan gets theirs on December 18. Not that a few weeks' delay wouldn't be all that bad either. Other than for LittleBigPlanet text chatting, most of you are probably eying this keypad for PlayStation Home (yeah, good luck waiting for that). Currently, the price tag for the PS3 Wireless Keypad is clocked anywhere between US$ 40 - 50, depending on which online retailer you check. Related articles:
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by StingBlah - 2008-11-14 |
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» holy mother of
sackboy! For 50 bucks I might as well get a good BlueTooth Keyboard I can use with my laptop too!
sackboy! For 50 bucks I might as well get a good BlueTooth Keyboard I can use with my laptop too!
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Re: Shatterdome - 2008-11-14 |
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» or better yet...
get the official blutooth headset....screw typing...
get the official blutooth headset....screw typing...
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Re: TouchDaSkeleton - 2008-11-14 |
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» but who really wants to pick up
that big bluetooth key board everytime they want to type
that big bluetooth key board everytime they want to type
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Re: mortician10101 - 2008-11-15 |
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» m'yesss
i agree with touchdaskeleton
i have a bluetooth keyboard which is currently doing nothing but gathering dust, simply because i dont feel like having a keyboard near me when i'm playing a console game...
Microsoft already very successfully released a chat pad thingy, which i use whenever i use the other dust-gathering machine ( lol )...Sony's is nicer too assuming that's what it looks like.
i agree with touchdaskeleton
i have a bluetooth keyboard which is currently doing nothing but gathering dust, simply because i dont feel like having a keyboard near me when i'm playing a console game...
Microsoft already very successfully released a chat pad thingy, which i use whenever i use the other dust-gathering machine ( lol )...Sony's is nicer too assuming that's what it looks like.
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Re: Shatterdome - 2008-11-16 |
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» You think it looks nicer ?
It's the same exact crap but only on top of the controller, instead of below it....
Imagine if you could just.....talk....and people would understand you......instead of typing....
it's called a headset....use one...
It's the same exact crap but only on top of the controller, instead of below it....
Imagine if you could just.....talk....and people would understand you......instead of typing....
it's called a headset....use one...
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by GLO13AL_T3RROR - 2008-11-14 |
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» ....
looks great!
looks great!
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by sycoblast - 2008-11-15 |
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» ms finally gets oen upped :p
altho i prfer the location of the XBOX's keypad its good that sony has got one of these, although personally i doubt i'd see myself buying one of these because for one expensive, and two well i use the mic.
reasons why i probably will buy i have every sony gadget except the bluetooth adapter and well the keypad, but dont need blue tooth headset because i have the ps eye which works gream imo.
hopefully it succeeds none the less
altho i prfer the location of the XBOX's keypad its good that sony has got one of these, although personally i doubt i'd see myself buying one of these because for one expensive, and two well i use the mic.
reasons why i probably will buy i have every sony gadget except the bluetooth adapter and well the keypad, but dont need blue tooth headset because i have the ps eye which works gream imo.
hopefully it succeeds none the less
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by xche78x - 2008-11-15 |
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» being the sony fanboy i was
i hate this design, the 360 kb design is better
sorry i may not be buying this add on unless i saw this on stores with 80% discount.
just like how much i paid for my eyetoys and ps2 keyboard, just a fraction of the original cost lol.
i hate this design, the 360 kb design is better
sorry i may not be buying this add on unless i saw this on stores with 80% discount.
just like how much i paid for my eyetoys and ps2 keyboard, just a fraction of the original cost lol.
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by Mister Common Sense - 2008-11-15 |
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» .
there's no reason this needs its own power supply.
there's no reason this needs its own power supply.
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by storky20 - 2008-11-15 |
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» ZzZ
Unless the keyboard came with a built-in-mic, I'd buy it. That would help gamers a lot IMHO. Just...dont put a screen on that.......PSP 3000 SUCKS ~~~
Unless the keyboard came with a built-in-mic, I'd buy it. That would help gamers a lot IMHO. Just...dont put a screen on that.......PSP 3000 SUCKS ~~~
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by arishay - 2008-11-16 |
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» I guarantee
Sony has been pushing to release this in accordance with the Home release. All this means is that Home will probably release within that week as well, because they know people will be aggravated by the standard bluetooth keyboards and the sound quality and ambient noise pick-up from the headsets. I don't actually have the BT keyboard, but I do have the headset released with Warhawk and my goodness, it's terrible. Whenever I'm playing CoD4 or CoD5 the microphone always picks up subtle sounds, no matter how much tweaking I do to the sensitivity setting in the XMB menu. Also, a lot of people either choose not to use it if they have it, or they just don't own one--plus, there are a LOT of annoying gamers out there and I hate pausing and muting one by one, leaving no one intelligent to talk to. The keyboard built in to the controller is a good idea, and this is probably what they were aiming for. I just hope that it isn't heavy or awkward to use. From the looks of it, being that it's a thumb-board, my thumbs can barely comfortably reach the tip of the L and R markings on each side. The keypad is well beyond this, so you aren't going to be doing any run and gun typing like you could on a PC game. They really should have designed it with the keypad BELOW the analogue sticks, where thumbs can more naturally move to without shimmying the grip on the handles. This is one more thing I probably won't buy.
Sony has been pushing to release this in accordance with the Home release. All this means is that Home will probably release within that week as well, because they know people will be aggravated by the standard bluetooth keyboards and the sound quality and ambient noise pick-up from the headsets. I don't actually have the BT keyboard, but I do have the headset released with Warhawk and my goodness, it's terrible. Whenever I'm playing CoD4 or CoD5 the microphone always picks up subtle sounds, no matter how much tweaking I do to the sensitivity setting in the XMB menu. Also, a lot of people either choose not to use it if they have it, or they just don't own one--plus, there are a LOT of annoying gamers out there and I hate pausing and muting one by one, leaving no one intelligent to talk to. The keyboard built in to the controller is a good idea, and this is probably what they were aiming for. I just hope that it isn't heavy or awkward to use. From the looks of it, being that it's a thumb-board, my thumbs can barely comfortably reach the tip of the L and R markings on each side. The keypad is well beyond this, so you aren't going to be doing any run and gun typing like you could on a PC game. They really should have designed it with the keypad BELOW the analogue sticks, where thumbs can more naturally move to without shimmying the grip on the handles. This is one more thing I probably won't buy.
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