PS3 controller keypad gets UK date and price

25 quid too much.

EDIT: That advert banner at the top that attempts to stay there when you scroll is well annoying.

It should really have been at the bottom like the 360 one. I find an Apple Wireless BT keyboard makes a great if massively more expensive alternative.

That banner also fails to work on Safari in any way other than to look screwed up. This site is generally a bit poor for ensuring cross browser support though – you can’t actually post from the PS3 browser.

I quite like the keypad as a space saving alternative but agree it is a bit expensive :/

And YES, that ****ing advert is VERY annoying!

I think I just stick with the wireless keyboard and mouse for now, too expensive and it doesn’t really look easy to use.

Shurely that is in the wrong place? Should have been where the 360 keyboard is.

Managed to get rid of the hovering banner. Thank god for ABP

I had a play with this at GC and it was honestly OK from what I recall. You could reach everything with your thumbs.

Was that without shifting it around in your hands? Maybe I’m just crap at imagining how it will work.

£25 is fine – and guess what? Even though it is brand new it’s the same RRP as the official 360 pad which has been out for ages. Anyway, I just preordered it for £17 including delivery which is fantastic. Who the hell pays RRP? If some people spent as much time looking for a deal as they do tutting about prices, well, you know where I’m going…….

And that ad makes me want to kill people. Could it be any more annoying and designed to be accidentally activated, thus interfere with the site viewing experience?

@JPickford

Yeah.. is v. annoying. Firefox + Adblock Plus + exclusion for ‘www.sublimemedia.net’ = sanity restored.

I’m ok with advertising, but when they’re *right in my sodding face*, scrolling everywhere, and expanding if I dare move my mouse over them, I do kinda dislike them.

I’m actually looking forward to fiddling with this, I’ve never typed with my thumbs before because there’s never been a keyboard small enough, but now there is and an accompanying challenge that I shall rise to.

I still think that having a small (laptop-sized) keyboard sitting near the PS3 will probably be a better option at the end of the day, but I’m open-minded enough to accept that there might be worth in this. And I’m still eager to try it.

@Dean

That’s the first sane argument in regards to the ads I’ve seen, most arguments have made me want to side with keeping the ads around.

That’s my philosophy though: Adblock the ads which are simply too annoying and leave the rest. I tend to click ads which aren’t animated and don’t bounce around the screen, after all. Still images, Google text ads, and whatnot.

There’s been a lot of cussing in regards to the ads and little more, I think that pointing out to pat that these kinds of ads will probably encourage people to use ad-blockers is a much more reasonable approach.

@Esha

Yeah.. I appreciate this is a (the?) means of income for the site, so blocking everything is a non-starter (no income = no site, after all.. and we wouldn’t want that).. But when ads are too intrusive to accept, that’s when I start a blockin’…

Or, you know, if it pisses you off that much you could click the “close ad” button.