Sony Defends Lack Of Rumble In PS3 Controller
Many gamers were clearly disappointed when Sony announced the new PS3 controller, albeit having motion controls, it lacks a rumble features, something that was common in every controller on the market. Sony’s Phil Harrison said to Eurogamer
“I think that the next generation interfaces that can be created built on SIXAXIS motion sensitivity give tremendous gameplay benefits that far outweigh a reactive vibration function.”
Maybe Sony would have included the rumble feature if it wasn’t for all the trouble they had with Immersion over the PS2 controllers, but Harrison defends that by saying the six degree motion sensing far outweighs the rumble feature.
“The vibration function is the game sending a single channel of feedback to the player – six axis of input puts the player in control in a much richer, deeper way. So, game design can go in much more interesting directions as a result of that than from receiving a single input from the game itself.”
As always, costs play a big part. Already featuring motion sensing and wireless Bluetooth connection, Harrison pointed out that since they’re making 150-200 million of these, “it has to be done at price”.
Read (Eurogamer)
October 27th, 2006 at 12:27 pm
I’d have to agree there, I’d rather have motion control and wireless bluetooth than rumble. But rumble as well would ahve been awesome.
October 27th, 2006 at 4:12 pm
I don’t need rumble either, I’d pick motion sensing over it any time. But the wii has both
October 27th, 2006 at 4:37 pm
They could easily have included both functions. Simple reason they didnt was PS2 got Sony sued for stealing the technology and it would have cost them too much to design a new way to do it so they are making up excuses to convince people they don’t want it anyway.
Inbreds like Doom probably already believe that rumble features cause memory loss and baldness. Then again his mother is probably his cousin too
October 27th, 2006 at 6:26 pm
Oh the reason is because it all has to be done at price now? I could have sworn the original “reason” (read: bullshit excuse) was that it wasn’t technically possible to have both at the same time. That’s what gave rise to the 1up (at least I think it was 1up) video of a guy playing a 10 year old joypad with rumble and motion sensing together.
Sony: is it AT ALL possible for you to say just ONE sentence without covering it all with bullshit?
October 27th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
That is what they said Gareth … I remember that and that video you are talking about.
October 27th, 2006 at 9:24 pm
Just let me ask why they are selling a console for 600$ then??? Now cost matters… they take gamers for really dumb people, wich is true to some point unfortunatly…
October 27th, 2006 at 10:41 pm
Ms sued sony out of the rumble. Cheap shot.
October 27th, 2006 at 11:22 pm
Why would MS sue Sony out of the rumble when the copyright lay with Immersion? Why would MS itself decide to settle out of court with Immersion for its use of rumble if rumble belonged to MS?
Once again Doom you’re talking out of your arse.
October 28th, 2006 at 3:07 am
I have to say, even though motion sensing does out wiegh rumble by a long shot:
A) Nintendo can do it with rumble and that doesn’t seem to affect the cost or the sensors.
B) Sony says it like they are the only ones that have motion sensing and like they inventd it.
October 28th, 2006 at 7:27 am
it has to be done at price eh?
October 29th, 2006 at 7:26 pm
”Why would MS itself decide to settle out of court with Immersion for its use of rumble if rumble belonged to MS?”
Fool, if you only read the story (I did), you’d know that ms not only settled, but partially owned immersion and after that sent them after sony.
October 29th, 2006 at 9:01 pm
Stop sucking cock, Doom. Immersion went after both companies at the same time. MS settled out of court, Sony took them on thanks to their arrogance and laughably lost.
October 30th, 2006 at 3:20 am
“Stop sucking cock, Doom. Immersion went after both companies at the same time. MS settled out of court, Sony took them on thanks to their arrogance and laughably lost.”
LMAO ROFL LMAO! *waits for laughable Doom retaliation*
October 30th, 2006 at 4:06 am
Speechless while gazing at ignorance /% of illiterates of wiiboyz
October 30th, 2006 at 4:59 am
ROFL. That’s what I was waiting for.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:14 pm
” Ms sued sony out of the rumble. Cheap shot.”
For possibly the first and most likely last time in his life Doom is partially right.
Immersion held patents on rumble hardware using rotating giros, the same technology which both Sony and Microsoft used in their gamepads (whether they nicked this or ‘happened upon it’ without knowing about Immersion doesn’t really matter).
They got sued and lost, both had to pay a huge settlement. Microsoft purchased part of the company following the court case.
Doom is wrong about them making Immersion sue Sony it had already happened and they had already lost. But Microsoft now have the rights to use that technology , wheras Sony do not and MS is hardly likely to let them use it just so some fanboys like Doom can stick their wireless pads down their pants and set them to rumble
.
Sony had two choices, spend millions developing their own system like Nintendo did or cut it from their next system and try to bullshit out of it. It chose the cheap option.
Nintendo’s system works differently so it avoided the infringements the others did.
October 30th, 2006 at 6:29 pm
@ ruined Don’t tell me that you think after MS got a near-majority shareholding in Immersion it WOULDN’T use it against sony. Why else do you think they’d buy when they already settled out of court? Oh yeahhh. And another thing, there is a difference between the time of taking over acquity and the notification of it. So you can be damn sure MS excercized pressure on Immersion. And: when you own a big share of a company, you also receive a big share back of your own settlement costs. But I’m sure this all goes over your guys heads. If you really think that ms doesn’t use immersion as a tool to hinder sony you are even more blinded than you already pretend to be. Btw I read many respected gamemagazines who think the same (no, not ps oriented ones). This is only interesting because for the first time in video game history, competition is waged with a really big lawsuit.
But naaah, I don’t think I’ll personally miss the rumble that much, since I don’t miss it at games which don’t use it. It sometimes even hinders me as with FFX. But, it would ofcourse be better if the ps3 had it. The more the better I think.
October 30th, 2006 at 7:29 pm
Hey Doom your joypad will be rumbling enough with you holding it in one hand and wanking all over your PS3 with the other!
Or at least it would be if your cock was big enough for your hand/arm to move enough for the momentum to affect the rest of your body.
October 30th, 2006 at 11:23 pm
Ah ah, you insult someone by telling them they jerk off? How retarded is that! I’m sorry if you still think that’s a sin and god will punish you for it.
Dumbass.
October 30th, 2006 at 11:58 pm
And you insult them by telling them they’re young? Hmm.
October 31st, 2006 at 1:14 am
No, but I’m sure wanking over gaming hardware is pretty fucked up!
October 31st, 2006 at 1:52 am
Hahaha. Yeah.
November 1st, 2006 at 3:25 am
I heard that the sixaxis is so light it hovers.
maybe the sixaxis will feel a bit more like the people that defend it, a bit like fisher price toys.