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[Mama Smurf]

I think you've misunderstood. It wouldn't be like a dual shock, it'd be like the current Xbox pad, only with a button on each shoulder as well, above the triggers.

A bit like the GC but with two shoulder buttons instead of one. Hopefully more comfortable to press than the GC one though, which I'm sure they would be as it's being designed with those changes in mind rather than Nintendo's slapping it on at the last minute.

 

[Deku Tree]

You do remember the original design of the Xbox controller, right?

The Duke looks alot better than that thing.

 

[mr2mike]

Of course buttons have travel.

But the DS2 buttons dont detect along the travel, they work on pressure. dont beleive me, go in the option menu for RRV.

Analog triggers actually detect the position fo the trigger along it's travel range, I've seen both optical and magnetic tracking systems, the optical system was oddball, in the Sega Saturn Mission stick: under the joystick there were 4 white reflective pads, and under them on the circuit board were diodes and photosensors. basically more light meant the reflective pad was closer, hence the stick was tilted.

that mofo was wicked sensitive, and smooth beyond beleif since there was no mechanical tracking like in the analog pads of Xbox, PS2 and GC.

Current analog triggers work on the magnetic system, putting a weak magnet at the moving end of the trigger, with a sensor on the board: more magnetism = closer.

the DC even used that magnetic principle for it's analod pad, but my experience tells me the flimsy magnetic balljoint/spring loaded pressure ring doesn't stand the test of time very well... anyway...

just go in the RRV options, the buttons dont register on the onscreen display until they're pressed it, at wich point, exerting force against them produces an analog response.

with that said, God I wish GT3 had had an analog button sensitivity option like that.

 

[Chittagong]

If that's a photoshop job, it's one of the best I have ever seen. If not, two things bother me - why the need for the fruity buttons still? And why the mid-90s style curved industrial design?

 

[Heezzi]

So the new Xbox 2 controller is going to look like this?

 

[Sysgen]

Gamespot
says the controller is real.

RUMOR #4: The controller for the Xbox2 will come with repositioned Start and Select buttons, no more Black and White buttons, and the possibility of four trigger buttons.

Source: A now-dead link off of the Spong.com forums (see captured .jpg above).

The official story: Our first contact with the Fort Knox that is Microsoft PR netted an innocent "let me check with the folks closer to the product," suggesting the snap was provocative enough to get the Rumor Control juices flowing up Redmond way. A quick recovery shuttled through the ether moments later: "Not that I'm even saying there IS a product." Right...we do know the feeling. Then came a third e-mail flowing from even higher sources in the PR food chain. "Sorry...can't comment on rumors." And an either very astute, or red herring-ish, "But what do you make of that quarter?" Hmmm...we hadn't thought about that quarter.

What we heard: Not so much what we heard, but what we saw. Skeptics dismiss the controller (on the left) as an obvious "knock off" controller, maybe from Taiwan. They point to the apparent cheapness of the plastic and lack of a logo. But neither of these are proof--why would a prototype have a logo, and what else would you knock up a quick design with but the cheapest plastic?

We've never seen a "cheap knock off" with such good design choices before, either. The controller's smaller; the positioning of the Start and Select buttons is much better, and apparently there's room for two trigger buttons on the back. And we've been told that the Xbox2 controller will "definitely" have two triggers on both sides (from an informed source). Oh, and the thumb sticks and D-pad look like official parts.

And why would any Xbox controller--even a knockoff--be missing two buttons entirely?

Upon further inspection, well, there was no further inspection due to the snap being removed from the live servers…buggy server or some large corporate entity intent on keeping its secrets to itself? And what about that quarter?

Bogus or not bogus?: The quarter is real. The controller, well, when we add it all up, is too. Not Bogus.

 

[cvxfreak]

Oh snap!

 

[Vormund]

why would a prototype have a logo, and what else would you knock up a quick design with but the cheapest plastic?

Exactly...

 

[Troidal]

This is for real folks...I got to see and touch the damned thing the other day.
I would guess the final design is still going to be changed, but the fit of the controller and the button placements are definitely great.