Backseat Gamers: A way around the Sixaxis

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If the gaming industry is an automobile, and the game designers are the drivers, then that makes us, the players, backseat drivers, and we'll be damned if we're gonna let the industry keep on heading the way it's going (good or bad) without letting them know what we think. So buckle up, feel free to complain about there being no air in the back, and bring your most critical and analytical mind to the open air discussion of the current age, Backseat Gamers!
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Thursday, June 24, 2010

A way around the Sixaxis

Just an interesting find when I was messing around with the PS3.

I was saying in my Killzone 2 review that it's a bummer that I have to use the PS3 Dualshock and not my awesome new Afterglow controller with the better joysticks because it lacks the extra 20 bucks for the Sixaxis. I figured that I could use my new controller and just unplug it and turn on the Dualshock when I need the Sixaxis, but this didn't work. It just auto signed in under player #2. Well I found that I can switch, on the fly, the number player that the controller is assigned to when I hit the PS Home button, under "system settings," and it worked! I can just switch the Dualshock to #1 and back to #2 when I'm done with it!

I know it's not a huge deal, but still worth a post.