PS2 Wireless Controller Revealed
A new wireless PlayStation 2 controller has been revealed, going by the name of AirStyle - see it inside.
With the success of Nintendo's ultra-convenient Wavebird wireless controller, you have to ask why Sony and Microsoft haven't got round to ripping off the concept yet. Well it looks like somebody has grown tired of waiting.
Yoshida Tsuyosh, Chief Designer at FounTech, a Japanese technology firm, recently got in touch with journalists due to attend the E3 show next month, to give a sneak peek at the new controller.
The name of the controller is Airstyle W-Shock 2, and it uses "the newest RF technology" to enable PlayStation 2 gaming to go wireless. FounTech claims that the controller, which is manufactured in a Cordless Telephone Plant, is managed with the same level of quality control as - well, cellphones, presumably.
Mr Tsuyosh rightly believes that the wireless controller for PS2 is long overdue - and since there's little competition, the product should do pretty well at retail.
The end user's relationship with a videogame controller is far more intimate that with a TV or DVD remote - and you'd never put up with one of those if it were attached to the main unit. Granted, they work with infrared - but in principle, all game controllers should eventually be wireless. Now if somebody would get around to manufacturing a wireless controller for Xbox, everyone can be wire-free.
Adam Doree
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