Hardly major news by any stretch, but I guess it's interesting for anyone who's wondered what Sony might call the PS3's controller, officially.
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3153593
Nice to know what exactly to call it, I guess. Not official, but it seems more right than DS3.
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3153593
A 1UP user passed along the suggestion that we check the patent records for the name 'Sixaxis' and see what turned up. Scanning the trademark's text it's clear that this could be any number of things (see image above).
However, the term "six axis" has appeared frequently in Sony PR, including multiple times in the May 8, 2006 announcement of the controller's motion sensing functionality.
Nice to know what exactly to call it, I guess. Not official, but it seems more right than DS3.