In an unfortunate turn of events for the legions of Australian
video game fans, Sony's president of the Computer Entertainment
Worldwide Studios division Phil Harrison announced today that
the upcoming PlayStation 3 controller will be unable to pull
double duty as a precision kangaroo killer. Apparently the
boomerang/banana shape that we've come to hate despise detest
accept as the PS3's major drawback is being "tossed" in favor of
an unspecified redesign (NOT the one pictured here) that will be
unveiled at E3 in May, mentioned Harrison in a speech that was
mainly about the Xbox Live-like PlayStation Network Platform.
There's a lot of pressure on Sony here to unveil something
appealing for several reasons: they need to placate the vocal
minority of ravenous fanboys who publicly slammed the initial
design, but more importantly, they need to prove they can
outdesign a bunch of very talented gaming blog readers.
[Thanks, Mike]   Sony confirms PS3 controller redesign