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PlayStation Sales Halted?

Posted by Zonk on from the you'd-think-they'd-have-thought-that-through dept.

Narf Narf writes "According to Japan Today, the U.S. District Court in Oakland, California, has ordered Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and its U.S. unit to pay $90.7 million in damages to Immersion Corp. for patent infringement over controllers used with PlayStation game consoles. In the ruling handed down Thursday, the federal court also ordered Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Entertainment America Inc. to stop selling the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 game consoles using Dualshock controllers as well as more than 40 game software products." Update: 03/28 04:51 GMT by Z : ...which was followed immediately by an injunction, to allow Sony time for an appeal, and a compulsory licensing agreement.

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  1. Re:uh by Myen · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The PS controllers are easier to use on a computer?

    Google's first result on xbox usb controller. Note lack of programming chips, or even any chips at all.

    Wasn't the XBOX controller interface basically USB with different pin positions or something?