Sony Says, "Serect is Serious."
Sony has issued a press release confirming that its new PS3 controller will in fact have a "Serect" button as part of its interface.
"The 'serect' button is so top secret that all we can do is acknowledge it's there; we can't even discuss what it does," explained Phil Ophet, Assistant to the Secretary of Public Relations at Sony of Canada. "Rest assured, the 'serect' button will wow the pubric, er, public, when they get their hands on a PS3."
The 'serect' controller was unveiled earlier in the week, but what was perceived to be a simple grammatical error on the part of the yellow-skinned foreign menace has turned out to be a legitimate new feature, replacing the old 'select' button that was on the PS3 prototype controller as late as this year's E3. No one is sure what it does, and no one seems to be talking.
"Uh, I think we're only developing games for the XBox 360" said Donald MacClung, a programmer for the British development house Rare, when asked about the new feature. Various other developers are claiming to lack any knowledge on what the button might do or even that it exists, perhaps due to a non-disclosure agreement with Sony.
Sony's competition is up in arms, however. Nintendo UK's David Yarnton told a reporter for the Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph that "it's very possible Nintendo developed a 'serect' feature and Sony stole the idea. We have a long tradition of developing features that Sony subsequently copies. This 'serect' could be one such feature."