PS3 Controller

Kutaragi piqued the audiences' interest near the end of the conference by saying he and Sony had "one big secret we've kept from you." After commenting on his fabled "4D world", he then held up the new PS3 controller, which looked much like the old tried-and-true PlayStation controllers. Gone was the boomerang shape that made many gamers' stomachs turn.

Harrison continued to demo the capabilities of the controller, bringing up a 3D image of a wooden crate. After a bit of knocking around, drilling and sawing within the crate, the sides collapsed to reveal the small rendering of a PS3 controller. Harrison proceeded to pick up the physical controller from his podium, and the on-screen rendition levitated as well.

The controller, according to Harrison, has "six degrees of freedom built in", and will come standard with every PS3. He emphasized that it is not an extra peripheral that gamers would have to buy. Kutaragi and Harrison added that it actually weighs less than the PS2's controller, and called it a "fantastic innovation."

To demonstrate the real-life capabilities of the controller, Incognito's Warhawk producer and director Dylan Jobe walked out on stage to play his game in real-time with the controller. He controlled Warhawk's aircraft by tilting the controller left and right, forward and back as he locked onto and fired at enemies.