Kotaku's Brian Ashcraft is reporting that a Sony Computer Entertainment employee confirmed to him today that SixAxis with rumble is on the way. No other details were provided, although rumor broke earlier this week that a rumble-enabled controller would appear with the release of the new 80GB PlayStation 3 this August.
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No matter what anyone says about the PS3 not needing rumble, I just laugh about. When you crash in Motorstorm, you don't get your thrill from the HD graphics, in fact, it's not fun at all. With some form of force feedback it provides a wake up call for you to know that you did something to actually cause it. It's been made standard, and standard things should stay.
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This is a positive step. But I think many saw it coming.
Definitely a positive step.
Hey, it's Sony's way of admitting they were wrong... without actually admitting anything. Way to go Sony!
Hey, it's Sony's way of admitting they were wrong... without actually admitting anything. Way to go Sony!
Sony had a law suit with Immersion Corp. over the rumble feature. Let's stop being fanboys with our comments and start being informed.
Sony refused to pay out and therefore were unable to put rumble in their controls but they said it was because of the wireless technology? At least that's what I thought had happened.
And now they have settled the lawsuit and paid (I think?) they are able to make rumble controls.
i wonder does it have that touch sensitive rumble somebody else reported about
I hope this rumble feature can be shut off via the PS3 and not with some dorky switch on the controller... I just don't care anymore about this technology. It was cool back in the day, but we gotta move on.
Sony refused to pay out and therefore were unable to put rumble in their controls but they said it was because of the wireless technology? At least that's what I thought had happened.
And now they have settled the lawsuit and paid (I think?) they are able to make rumble controls.
Pretty much. Now is it because Sony's technology had advanced that they are able to add the rumble in? No. It's like gft77 said, they came to terms with immersion. Sony flat out lied to cover up their inability to create something without infringing on copyrights. If you google it, you'll get different excuses depending on which sony rep you hear from. One said cost, one said it was a "strategic move", one interview had it interfered with wireless technology, and the ultimate reason was the whole patent right infringement. That's god awful PR, and Sony's PR has been among the worst in the past 2 years imo.
I think as it stands right now Harmonica, Sony isn't the only game company with a PR problem, and I'd say one of it's competitors is doing worse.
Companies make excuses all the time. Why doesn't your fav game have the feature they said it would...you get 3 excuses, none of which are probably true. I don't think this should shock us.
I personally don't think this is gonna be anything all that special...
I don't miss rumble one bit, and it doesn't even phase me when playing PS3. I actually like the reduced weight of the controller, and I hope they keep rumble free controllers an option. Sixaxis with the rumble may be to heavy.
I've said it before, is rumble really that important to everyone? I just hope that it at least weighs down the controller or that Sony decides to make it a little heavier even without rumble.
I've said this before also, but the rumble features we're use to in video game systems is nothing compared to what it was suppose to be like. I remember devices that would really give you "feed back" and it wasn't so tingling feeling in your hands...
I like rumble and ive glad Sony have decided to put it in.
I'd rather see some sort of tech that we can strap to our wrist or something and have our systems communicate how much "force feedbacK" we get via bluetooth. I mean the stuff we get from controllers is just some whimpy.