The PS3 keypad in real hands

Posted by Talk Playstation

on Oct.02, 2008 at 11:51 am

Keeping an eye on that Playstation 3 Keypad? Lets take a look at what it looks like when someone is actually holding it.

According to MTV:

The PS3 version, however, connects above the sticks. I’m sure I’m not the only PS3 owner who has been wondering if that would force people to make an uncomfortable stretch.

At a meeting I had with Sony executives today in Manhattan, I saw a PS3 controller with the keypad attached. I asked to pick it up, to try it and to snap photos.

What you see above is the controller in my (very Italian) hands.

I snapped a few more photos of the device in my hands and those of Jack Buser, lead developer of the PS3’s upcoming Home service. Jack is a bigger guy, with bigger hands. He’s over six feet tall. I’m 5′6″.

This is what it looked like when we started reaching for buttons to type on: