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06-22-2007, 10:10 AM
Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3 (http://www.joystiq.com/category/sony-playstation-3/), Peripherals (http://www.joystiq.com/category/peripherals/)

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If you're wary of spending $25 on Sony's Bluetooth remote control -- after all, it won't work with your old-fashioned infrared devices -- then you may want to consider Nyko's BluWave remote for the PlayStation 3. Instead of using pesky radio waves, it uses good old-fashioned infrared (not 'blu') light waves to tell that little USB dongle what it wants your PlayStation 3 to do ... like "INITIATE BLU-RAY DISC PLAYBACK." Unfortunately, this device doesn't appear to be a universal remote so, like Sony's product, this is PS3 only. But at $20, you'll save enough to buy yourself a sandwich.

Nyko also announced that they're shipping their PS3 controller Charge Base (http://www.joystiq.com/2007/01/10/nykos-ps3-and-wii-charging-stations/) for $40, good for those of you with an aversion to recharging cables. We understand.

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Captain Wrong
06-22-2007, 12:43 PM
The remote seems rather pointless. $5 cheaper but what looks to me to be less funtionality and you have to have a dongle vs. the Sony remote, no dongle, full featured. Worth the extra $5 to me.

mario2butts
06-22-2007, 08:13 PM
The remote seems rather pointless. $5 cheaper but what looks to me to be less funtionality and you have to have a dongle vs. the Sony remote, no dongle, full featured. Worth the extra $5 to me.

Yea, but a lot of hardcore tech-heads were pissed at Sony's decision to use bluetooth with their official remote. You can't program its functions to a universal remote like the Logitech Harmony, which uses infared. This ought to appease them.