PS3 Finally Ready to Rumble? · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Zonk on Friday March 2, 2007 @02:01AM from the for-the-love-of-all-that-is-holy-thank-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sony has finally settled its longstanding legal dispute over infringement of Immersion Corporation's force feedback patents, which reportedly led to Sony's decision to remove rumble technology from the PS3 controller, by agreeing to pay Immersion at least $150.3 million in damages and royalties. The agreement presumably will result in rumble and perhaps other of Immersion's force-feedback technologies being incorporated in future Sony controllers. Microsoft previously settled a similar lawsuit brought by Immersion, but Sony hung on tenaciously despite complaints about its controller products and disappointing PS3 sales." There's no guarantee that the tech will show up in the Sixaxis controller, of course. After all, rumble is a 'last-gen' feature.

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Re:wow by jimstapleton · 2007-03-02 02:18 · Score: 5, Funny

or certain recreational devices...

Wait, how long have those been around with that feature? Longer than patents for such things? Prior art maybe?

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Re:Where's Nintendo in this? by wynler · 2007-03-02 03:05 · Score: 5, Informative

Nintendo's rumble-pak technology was based on a different design to a patent that Nintendo holds.