Sony Settles With Immersion, Will Rumble Return?
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Excellent news, If people try a game with/without rumble or used a steering wheel with/without feedback I am sure they would prefer having the rumble/feedback..
Does anyone know how Sony got in this situation? the Wii and 360 both have rumble/feedback, so I assume they have agreements with Immersion, or is this something different?
Does anyone know how Sony got in this situation? the Wii and 360 both have rumble/feedback, so I assume they have agreements with Immersion, or is this something different?
http://www.toptechnews.com/news/Game-Giants-Sued-over-Controllers/story.xhtml?story_id=023002LYZUD4
Nintendo was never actually sued by Immersion afaik.
Nintendo was never actually sued by Immersion afaik.
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Demon said:
Nintendo use a different technology.
Microsoft knew they were infringing (like Sony), but Microsoft paid them off straight away and got to use it, whereas Sony took Immersion to 3 seperate re-trials, all of which were thrown out immediately because it was clear Sony were using Immersions rumble technology and as a result, they got fined a hefty sum of money.
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so does that mean you got to buy another controller if they can now use it?, and what about the controller that comes with the PS3, will they offer a free replacement or just start shipping out new controllers with the retail boxes in a few months time?
all good news, rumble is to me is a important part of gaming
all good news, rumble is to me is a important part of gaming
I would bet that it will be released seperately, won't be a replacement service. It will be like when Microsoft released the 'S Controller' for the Xbox.
Sony have always made money via it's peripherals, with so much being included in the console and no chance of a multitap (A big earner for PS1 and quite good on PS2) and no need to purchase a Memory Card as standard, I think Sony will be happy to have this as a seperate peripheral.
Sony have always made money via it's peripherals, with so much being included in the console and no chance of a multitap (A big earner for PS1 and quite good on PS2) and no need to purchase a Memory Card as standard, I think Sony will be happy to have this as a seperate peripheral.
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can see it now
Phil Harrison's next speech/quote will be - "although we said rumble is last gen and we decided to ditch it because of the lawsuit we consider it very important for current gen games and you all will be missing out on this new great feature we have managed to secure with Immersion for all our PS3 fans, "
lol
Phil Harrison's next speech/quote will be - "although we said rumble is last gen and we decided to ditch it because of the lawsuit we consider it very important for current gen games and you all will be missing out on this new great feature we have managed to secure with Immersion for all our PS3 fans, "
lol
JUMPURS said:
Probably...
Wouldn't it be great if the European conosles all had rumble installed as a thank you from sony to make up for the lack of backwards compatibility
(It's not going to happen though as I'm sure all of the consoles due for Europe have probably already been manufactured, boxed and sent to their respective destinations long ago with more arriving all the time ready for launch). But, I hope they implement it during or before the summer as that's when I'll be buying my PS3 and I badly want it to utilise and include rumble even if few games out by then don't fully utilise it yet. I think Rumble is so important that it's almost taken for granted. I mean, imagine playing Table Tennis (Rockstar Games) on the PS3 without rumble? How would you know if you had overcooked a shot?Whappers.
I thought the reason there was no rumble in the PS3 (other than the lawsuit) was it made the sixaxis motion sensor go doolally.
I'd say the settlement is just the final nail in the ongoing legal fight and they've now paid up.
Hope they do find a way to get rumble in aswell as sixaxis, it makesa major difference to a lot of games.
I'd say the settlement is just the final nail in the ongoing legal fight and they've now paid up.
Hope they do find a way to get rumble in aswell as sixaxis, it makesa major difference to a lot of games.
Maybe, but look at it from another direction. This should have been introduced from the start and having it not out now means that there are more and more games that are not going to have this essential feature. In my opinion, the sooner games are made with rumble feature in mind the better. Rumble is a massive feature for a lot of people. A couple of friends of mine didn't believe me when I told them the PS3 didn't utilise rumble. That's an idea of how granted this simple feature is taken. The longer they prolong the introduction of rumble the more they are shooting themselves in the foot. They need to need to have at least equal features with the other consoles in order to be a major hit and Rumble is one of those features I believe. The sooner they implement rumble, the better for all I believe. They may as well take the initiative and work immediately on getting rumble implemented again thanks to todays settlement. My opinion of course 
Maybe, but I think it's gonna have more to do with Playstation Home.JUMPURS said:
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3157624
Well they used that as an excuse but it was since proven to be false by someone who modded a 360 controller to use motion control.Sclodion said:
Joebob said:
And the Wii
IIRC they said it couldn't work with the tech in Sixasis not motion sensing in general. THough maybe now they will license the whole tech from Immersion, as iirc they had rumble and some form of motion sensing, so maybe they will partner up and find the solution.