Why some of my PlayStation 3 accessories are not working?

The PlayStation 3 ,Sony Playstation 3 , abbreviated PS3 is a game console from Sony Computer Entertainment. It was in May 2005 unveiled at E3 in LosAngeles as the official successor to the PlayStation 2.Commenced sales of the PlayStation 3 was in Japan on 11th November 2006, inNorth America on 17 November 2006 and in Europe 23 March 2007. When theconsole called "7 Generation ", it competes with the Wii from Nintendo and the Xbox360 from Microsoft. To 29 March 2011 were 50 million units of PS3 sold worldwide.

Besides its function as a video game platform, the PS3 is also capable of audioCDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Disc playback. For more music, picture and video files of different formats from the internal hard disk, an external medium or via a DLNA-compliant media server via the network connections are played and copied.

The SIXAXIS controller of the PlayStation 3 corresponds largely to the opticalcontroller of the PS2, but it is a new development without the previously known,switchable "rumble" feature, with semi-translucent casing and without fixed wiring.Later models were given a non-transparent case back. The connection to theconsole is now either wirelessly via Bluetooth or a USB cable. The power for the Bluetooth operation is taken from an internal battery that can be charged via the USB cable. The L2/R2-Schultertasten, in contrast to the DualShock a much greater range of motion, similar to the shoulder buttons of the Xbox 360 gamepad, so that the compressive strength are determined more accurately. The remaining buttons and two analog joysticks are largely unchanged. A major innovation of the controller,which is its namesake, is a sensor that registers movement on all axes of the controller and transmits the control data to the console. In addition, using the SIXAXIS called a PS button, with the system on and off, controllers notified and renumbered and a system menu can be accessed. Up to seven of these controllers can be registered for a console. The figures show the four LEDs on the controller number and the respective status. Meanwhile, Sony has stopped production of theSixaxis. For this reason there is now only the DualShock 3, which becomes thestandard PS3 controller.