Details on the PS3 controller and its battery
Okay, there’s been some talk about the PS3’s controller and people are asking things like how will it work, how does it charge, how much will batteries for the thing cost, stuff like that. Well, an update on a Japanese tech site called Broadband Watch answers a few questions about the controller, and at the same time, due to the iffy nature of online translation engines, raises a few questions.
The reports says that the controller will have to be paired with a USB cable before play. The pairing process will be required each time the console is shut down or turned back on. We’re a bit unsure if you have to do this each time the controller loses power. If you’re fluent in Nihongo, feel free to inform us of any possible mistakes we’ve made in giving you this bit of data that’s based on rough translation.
The controller should have about 30 hours of playtime for every two-and-half hour charge. A sad bit though is that the battery isn’t replaceable, so if your controller’s lithium ion batteries refuses to charge, off to the repair store or the retailer you go. Yep, you buy a whole new controller. Some have been quick to point out though that the cost of buying a new PS3 controller – if in case it’s batteries go kaput – should be around the same as getting play and charge kits for controllers of other consoles.
Well just to be sure we get this right, if you think you know better, try getting all the details from the ‘Engrish’ below:
Power source of the controller has built in the lithium ion charge pond, charge does by way of USB. As for charge approximately 2.5 hours being necessary possible, at the time of full charge work of maximum of 30 hours is. If even with when the electric battery becomes the sky, you connect to PS3 with USB, you can play directly. Furthermore, as for the electric battery because you cannot remove, when the electric battery consumes, it replaces the controller, or it means to put out to repair.
Anyway, from the looks of it, if the controller batteries die and you’re really short on cash but you still want to play, the controllers should still be able to function via USB connection. That USB cable better be long. Sigh. If only Sony didn’t have a recent problem regarding batteries and laptops.
Despite online worries about the thing’s batteries, my real pet peeve with the PS3 controller is only a minor one: WTF did they do to the L2 and R2 buttons?! Sigh.
Via Broadband Watch
Okay, there’s been some talk about the PS3’s controller and people are asking things like how will it work, how does it charge, how much will batteries for the thing cost, stuff like that. Well, an update on a Japanese tech site called Broadband Watch answers a few questions about the controller, and at the same time, due to the iffy nature of online translation engines, raises a few questions.
The reports says that the controller will have to be paired with a USB cable before play. The pairing process will be required each time the console is shut down or turned back on. We’re a bit unsure if you have to do this each time the controller loses power. If you’re fluent in Nihongo, feel free to inform us of any possible mistakes we’ve made in giving you this bit of data that’s based on rough translation.
The controller should have about 30 hours of playtime for every two-and-half hour charge. A sad bit though is that the battery isn’t replaceable, so if your controller’s lithium ion batteries refuses to charge, off to the repair store or the retailer you go. Yep, you buy a whole new controller. Some have been quick to point out though that the cost of buying a new PS3 controller – if in case it’s batteries go kaput – should be around the same as getting play and charge kits for controllers of other consoles.
Well just to be sure we get this right, if you think you know better, try getting all the details from the ‘Engrish’ below:
Power source of the controller has built in the lithium ion charge pond, charge does by way of USB. As for charge approximately 2.5 hours being necessary possible, at the time of full charge work of maximum of 30 hours is. If even with when the electric battery becomes the sky, you connect to PS3 with USB, you can play directly. Furthermore, as for the electric battery because you cannot remove, when the electric battery consumes, it replaces the controller, or it means to put out to repair.
Anyway, from the looks of it, if the controller batteries die and you’re really short on cash but you still want to play, the controllers should still be able to function via USB connection. That USB cable better be long. Sigh. If only Sony didn’t have a recent problem regarding batteries and laptops.
Despite online worries about the thing’s batteries, my real pet peeve with the PS3 controller is only a minor one: WTF did they do to the L2 and R2 buttons?! Sigh.
Via Broadband Watch
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