E3 2016: Well, Sony’s PS Aim Controller Sure Looks Different

  Gaming has brought us some utterly batshit controllers over the years. Among other peculiar peripherals, we’ve seen a Japanese arcade game controlled by spanking a big plastic ass, a Game Boy Advance cart with a fancy gyroscope inside that let you play by turning the system, all kinds of weirdness.  

Then there are the controllers that aren’t all that nutty-ass, they’re just kinda… ass. The sort of cheap plastic crap that won’t ever biodegrade, leaving this sexy Earth of ours blighted by their existence for centuries to come. I imagine there’s a great landfill in the sky, full of Mario Kart wheels and those shit tennis racquet attachments you slap onto Wiimotes.

Not forgetting genre-specific specialized controllers, like flight sim joysticks with more goddamn buttons than NASA mission control. Today, fresh from E3 2016, I bring you Sony’s PS Aim Controller, which is a dash of everything I just said.

It looks really freaking awful, first off. Like really really. According to Sony, though, it’s got a great personality. Speaking about its game, a spacetastic VR shooter dubbed Farpoint, PlayStation Blog reported:

‘The PS VR Aim Controller offers the most realistic and precise way to control our game. With direct 1 to 1 tracking, you aim in Farpoint just as you would in real life. How you hold and where you point the controller are directly matched in the game. This allows you to do things in Farpoint that just are not possible in a standard FPS game. It also provides an unbelievable sense of presence in the virtual world.’

So there you go. In other great news, while the thing looks cheap as hell, you can bet it won’t actually be cheap by any means. So there’s that.