PlayStation Update + SIXAXIS Problems
- November 29th, 2006
- 20 Comments

Sony PlayStation 3 users are reporting their SIXAXIS controllers are no longer detected by their PS3s. To get the controller to be recognized again by the console, users have to repeatedly plug in the controller via USB to sync it to the console. I haven’t had problems with this yet, but it could be a bug that came in when users downloaded the new 1.11 firmware update that was released yesterday. Sony’s obviously still trying to get things ironed out with its new console, but the controller problem is something users really shouldn’t have to deal with.
Another thing I’ve been wondering about is what exactly Sony fixed with the 1.11 firmware update. The high definition scaling problem isn’t fixed, the browser is still slow, consoles are still crashing when visiting the online store and now controllers are freezing up. From the looks of it, the only thing I see different is the user account feature that lets you add more money into your “virtual wallet.”
Not to bad mouth Sony again, but I hope there’s another update that comes out soon. One that actually fixes some of the problems users (including me) are having with the console. Seriously. Oh yeah, has anyone beat Resistance yet?
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xbox 360 fan
1 year ago
resistence is shiet stop playing that crap play gears u lil sony bitches
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a
1 year ago
Why dont you go back to school little larry. ^^^^^^^^^
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xbox fan
1 year ago
resistance is so cool is better that gears in online is so cool better than anything i have play on my 360 this is by far the game to beat in my view
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SuspectZero
1 year ago
I beat it on hard in 3 days. Unlocked superhuman mode, runnin through it again. Im NIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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SuspectZero
1 year ago
New weapons also added in superhuman mode, this game is crazy
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elmont4232 (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Damn loser fanboys everywhere…….yes I beat it it unlocks a bunch of extras……..The more you play the more guys come at you
PS3FAN
1 year ago
If I don’t get A killer app soon for my PS3, I will be selling it and buying a 360. I’m tired of waiting, and don’t say Resistance is a killer app because it’s NOT!
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PS3 owner
1 year ago
Dude I know what you mean, there’s nothing out there that really interests me that much right now for PS3, Im gettin fed up with my 2 games, Resistance and NFS Carbon. I want some fresh new shit!!!!! Nothing else that’s out looks all that good, maybe except COD3 but not even.
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Joey (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Stop crying. Xbox 360 launch with crap. Yes crap. It took a fricking year for a good game like Gears. Xbox sucks. FFXIII will destory that stupid FPS Gears of war.
GamePhreak5
1 year ago
^ idk about FFXIII…I have a feeling it’s really gonna suck since Sakaguchi, the one who created the FF series, left square quite a while ago. Im not a fanboy or anything, but it doesn’t look like there’s too much hope for the FF series right now, except for remakes and more ports of past FF games.
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Happy (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Hey Joey… Gears isn’t a first person shooter. Regardless, Final Fantasy has sucked since number seven. Go play a real role-playing game like Fallout, or Balder’s Gate.
DustyBottomsBoW
1 year ago
I have to say that the two people that I know are having all the problems mentioned above. One of them really wants to sell it on Ebay. Why have gear that gives you a headache on a daily basis?
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*Dipset* (Who am I?)
1 year ago
“PS3″ owns 360. Shytz crazy got rsx-graphics, 8 core cell-processor, “1080p” HD Holy, and even more HD “Blu-ray, disc” baby. The games are unbelieveable, but im waiting to get mine till 2007 because every sick game is coming out using every last bit of the ps3’s power.
“GGGGGGG-GUNITz”
dipset full of shyt ;p (Who am I?)
1 year ago
“PS3″ owns 360. Shytz crazy got rsx-graphics that looks similar if not worse than that crapy 360 ati chip, 8 core cell-processor yet can’t handle doing more than 1 thing at a time, multi tasking??? … too smart for that, “1080p” HD Holy, but not for any games out there today and maybe for the next year and not for older tv’s either, and even more HD “Blu-ray, disc” baby cuz you ain’t got any other option, and if you have a dvd player and don’t have the money to buy overpriced bluray-disc for the same movie you can watch on HD-DVD that will play on your current DVD that later you can watch on your less pricy HD-DVD player … nah! don’t need more than that. The games are unbelieveable the same on both consoles, but im waiting to get mine till 2007 because every sick game is coming out on 360 and I need to sell that ps3 to buy some of those games, using every last bit of the ebay’s power.
“GGGGGGG-GUNITz
Happy (Who am I?)
1 year ago
*Dipset*… you’re wrong about darn near everything, you knew that right? First off, the RSX GPU is considered by *every* reliable source to be weaker than the 360’s Xenos.
Second, the Cell absolutely does NOT have eight cores. The Cell has a single core and eight SPEs, which are incredibly limited in their functionality. Of course, it doesn’t even really have eight SPEs either because one SPE is unused for redundancy issues, and another is dedicated solely to running the PS3’s OS, meaning that developers only have access to six.
Third, the 360 does 1080p as well (it didn’t upon launch, but it has for several months now)… so that’s hardly a boon for Sony, since they only equal the competition in that area. Also, as a previous poster stated, it really isn’t being used much for gaming at this point, and isn’t likely to be in the near future. It’s too resource intensive to display games in 1080p… you end up sacrificing too much to make it work, and as a result you end up with a game that is high def, but looks like crap due to low polygon counts, low res textures, and other such corners that need to be cut to allow for the game to run smoothly in 1080p.
Lastly, by no means are any games that are coming out in the next couple of years going to be using anywhere near the full potential of either the PS3 or the Xbox 360. To “get the most” out of both consoles developers are having to do multithreaded game engines, something which is new to every single developer out there. Multithreaded programming is a new avenue, and if you think any developer is going to fully get the hang of it in the next year, well, you’re kidding yourself.
Kmach (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Not to add insult to injury but Happy is absolutely right. The PS3 is more of a media machine than a gaming machine, Sony botched things up pretty good.
I think it is hilarious how the Sony fanboys last generation were screaming that hardware doesn’t matter, it was the PS2 library of games that mattered. That is until the PSP and PS3 came out, then it was all about hardware.
RIGHT NOW the 360 has better graphics (which probably will always be the case), more games, customizable faceplates, a better dashboard, gamerscores, an insanely better online service, a better controller, and all for a much cheaper price. Additionally, Sony is losing all its exclusives to MS, so I’ll be playing Metal Gear pretty soon! The only real arguments I can see some people making is that the 360 HDD is too small (especially if you want to download HD movies and store them forever), the system is loud (which I never really notice because I have the TV speakers/surround system on), and 360 doesn’t play movies or games on HD-DVD/Blu Ray discs (this might become an issue if and when games will need a larger media to be stored on. Currently there are no plans for the Xbox 360 HD-DVD add-on to be used to play games.
By the way, I have a couple friends with PS3’s. One friend’s PS3 freezes a few times a day while the controller’s blue tooth gets scrambled for a few seconds here and there resulting in loss of control. The other has had no problems but spends a lot of his time playing Gears of War. Right now it just doesn’t make sense to own a PS3.
Anonymous
1 year ago
who gives a shit
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Markus
1 year ago
True, the problem has occured for me as well. But just once.
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DENNIs BAo
1 year ago
Tell me Nex gen gamin PS3 babe
Mines is perrfect
i got all daa games n lemme tel u da bes game is spiderman resistance
blazin angles umm nfs carbon
ULTiMATE ALLIANCE
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jai (Who am I?)
2 months ago
FUCK ALL YOU 360 BITCHES YOU BILL GATE COCK SUCKING LEECHES I LIVE IN JAPAN AND YOU BITCHES DONT HAVE SHIT ON THE NEW THIN PS3 IT ENTERNET IS FASTER AND ITS IS THINNER THEN THE PSP TAKE THAT WITH YOUR BIG BULKY 360 AND YOUR STUPID BITCH ASS SEMENT POWER PLOCK FUCK YOU STUPID 360 BILL GATE COCK SUCKERS I BET ALL YOU GUYS TAKE IT UP THE ASS……… STUPID BITCHES