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Tired of trying to stretch your USB Keyboard over to your couch or typing out words via the directional pad? Sony finally has you covered in the form of a new wireless keypad accessory.
Announced at the platform holder’s Leipzig press conference this afternoon, the new peripheral, much like the 360's chatpad, will connect to the USB port of the controller for easy access. Apparently, the keypad will also have a touchpad mode for mouse input.
Not much else is known about the peripheral, but expect images to surface on the web shortly.
UPDATE: We've got two hi-res shots for you. One shows the device attached to the controller:
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While this is a nice addition (or probabaly will be), what's wrong with a Bluetooth keyboard? I, like may others, use one for typing out messages, or web browsing, and it works flawlessly.
Of course, this might be a more expensive option than the proposed keypad, but it has the advantage of being a full scale option.
Anyway, it is a good thing that we are getting this as it adds one more option for PS3 users.
oooh this will be cool :)
Wonder if this will be 29.99-34.99 like 360s chatpad.. >_>
Well there's currently another wireless keypad like this on the market (Find it in Amazon.co.uk or Play.com I think), so if this official one is marginaly more expensive, they'll loose out.
That bein said, this is one hooooooot add on, which is a MUST!
Either way I'll end up buyin it :P
looks cool. will buy it its under £30
Nice! Even though the virtual keyboard on the screen works pretty well, this will be a lot better.
that looks pretty awesome! i will for sure get one of these. now if it had a built in mic you could turn on and off with the touch of a button i would poop my pants.
Looks cool, but i will check the price first espically in the UK.
damn looks awesome...
Nah i'll stick with my usb keyboard
damn, i just bought one of these amazon ones from Logic3!
Ah well, i expect this will be more expensive.
damn, i just bought one of these amazon ones from Logic3!
Ah well, i expect this will be more expensive.
That's one nice lookin' accessory,Sony wasn't kidding about having awesome announcements.
I hope it is expensive otherwise loads of little kids are gonna buy it and we're all gonna be overwhelmed by the built in swear-word button (look in the middle at the bottom)
going to buy this. looks good
it looks good, i am sure it could come in handy especially with ingame messaging
ok where i live Gibraltar this is already out?? lol wtf i saw this where i buy my ps3 games it was next to ps3 controllers ?? what the he.ll oh and i think it was like like 20 pounds or something
@mort Grabbing a normal keyboard requires you to drop the controller and search for or hold it on your lap. Depending on the location of the PS3 using a normal keyboard would result very uncomfortable. This is very useful when gaming because you don't lose time taking out the keyboard and getting it ready. You have it already on the controller waiting for input.
@shamurai7 Just buy the socom confrontation game. It brings the official bluetooth headset included with the game.
The touch pad is a nice use. Tablets actually work with PS3. It would be cool that they made a touch pad based game.
I have a wired keyboard and mouse on my ps3 but this is really nice!!
thats official, always wanted sumthing like that
Isn't this ironic that the official wireless keypad and the official headset is arriving around the rumored release of Home? Sweet nonetheless. Big ups to Sony!!
That looks cool. I'd buy one but why no price announced?
I didn't think it'd look so fugly
haha what the fück is that!
is this really gonna sell?
My logitec looks better the that sh!t
meh... i think i'll pass... my wireless keyboard works just fine. the extra weight and quicker battery drain would annoy me.
how do you mve your thumb up there while holding the controller. it just looks out of reach to me. hopefully works better than it seems it will.
psn id: gingo... i will definitely buy this when it comes out, i am stuck with the on screen keyboard at the moment and it is really annoying for long messages and i cant be bothered with a bluetooth keyboard so this will be handy
Release a dvorak one please!
Thats a must buy for me
awesome it cool but kind of ulgy at the smae time but not to ulgy idk i want one
looks hot i'll get it if it's at a nice price >.> anything over the price of a dualshock 3 or close to it will NOT be reasonable
looks pretty nifty...will buy if less than the controllers.
I'll stick to usb as I can use it with my laptop or another pc as a spare incase. Others may use a regular b-tooth kbd to pair with a phone or whatever. I don't see any real advantage of this. Seems like a keep up with microsoft daft ideas to me