Sony pulling plug on SIXAXIS

This shouldn't come as much of a ... shock, but Sony is discontinuing the Sixaxis in light of the DualShock 3's arrival, according to MTV. A Sony rep says that you can likely expect them to all be gone by summertime.

The practical upshot is that if your hands have become so atrophied from a lack of physical activity that you can no longer support the DualShock's heft, you may want to stock up on featherweight Sixaxises (Sixaxi?). Good night, sweet, almost comically light prince. And flights of angels (controllable with aftertouch) sing thee to thy rest.

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/04/02/so...ug-on-sixaxis/

Figured it would happen... what this also means is that soon the 40GBs as we know them will also be halted to be replaced with an SKU that does include it, though if you ask me they should permanently halt manufacture of the 40GB, drop it $100 to clear inventory, and drop the new MGS4 80GB bundle to the price of the current 40 and only have one SKU being fully manufactured at a time. Then focus on updating the software BC.