List of PS3 Titles Compatible With Rumble Controller

Kotaku has a list of PlayStation 3 titles compatible with the new rumble-enabled controller just announced this week at TGS. Most of the upcoming high profile titles for the console are on the list, and several already-released games will apparently become compatible with a quick software update. Some highlights from the list: "The Darkness, Devil May Cry 4, Turok, Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, Burnout Paradise, RAGE, METAL GEAR SOLID 4 GUNS OF THE PATRIOTS, Condemned, Folklore, Heavenly Sword, Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, Resistance: Fall of Man SOCOM: Confrontation, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Warhawk"

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Re:Wow no posts?

[Ant P.]

Or maybe it's a sign that everyone genuinely couldn't care less about the PS3 at this point?

Re:Wait wait wait...

[seebs]

Because it was only the most egregious fanboys pushing that "I never wanted rumble anyway" thing.

In the cities, sometimes you'll see a bitter old man whistling at passing women. And, as they pass, he mutters something like "bitch, I ain't want you anyway".

PS3 fanboys are much like that bitter old man. :)

Meh.

[Guppy06]

I was an early adopter of the PS3 solely because of Sony's track record of backwards compatibility consistently getting worse as new versions of a particular console come out; I wanted to be sure to get the PS3 model that would play most (if not all) of my PS2 and PS1 library, and I have yet to actually play (let alone spend money on) a PS3 game. And the list of games here isn't going to change that for me as far as I can tell: I'm not going to speak for others, but there's nothing interesting for me in that list.

I'm looking forward to the new rumble controller for backwards compatibility, nothing else. I suppose, in that way, rumble really is a "last-gen" feature, as least on Sony platforms.

Now if only some new update will fix the sound flubs in Final Fantasy XI (or if S-E would release a PS3 client of the game).

Re:Enough is enough

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

"We get it, they've changed their minds. Yes, you're oh-so-witty for pointing out how Sony's doing a quick about-face. Because, y'know, never before in history has a company realized that they made a mistake and then gone back to correct it."

Ah, if only that was the whole story. The 'mistake' they made was they didn't want to pay licensing fees over the patent. Instead of just being upfront about that, they first claimed that their motion sensitive controller wouldn't work with Immersion's rumble technology.. When the Wii controller came out that supported motion sensing and rumble, Immersion made it public they had informed Sony about how to resolve that issue, then Sony fired back and said that rumble technology was last-gen.

Sony didn't simply make a mistake and correct it. They fought it kicking and screaming. If Sony hadn't been so negatively noisy about it, the Dual Shock 3 would barely have made the news.

Re:Enough is enough

[MWoody]

It's not funny because they changed their minds, it's funny because it was always a lie. They knew people wanted rumble, they just couldn't give it to them due to the lawsuit still in deliberation, so they decided to badmouth the technology as a whole. And now, mere months after the console's release, they're trying to quietly pull back and hope we won't point and laugh at their earlier attempts to sugarcoat their inability to provide a feature their consumers expected.

I mean, they lie to us all the time, of course; that's what PR is. But if they'd said "rumble is nice, but we can't do that due to the lawsuit, sorry. Meanwhile, here's an equally interesting technology called sixaxis..." then we'd be less likely to revel in the Schadenfreude. And really, lets remember this is Sony, purveyor or rootkits and constant attempts to force proprietary formats on unwilling consumers; they've earned no sympathy.

Re:Wow no posts?

[Daniel Phillips]

Or maybe it's a sign that everyone genuinely couldn't care less about the PS3 at this point? I wouldn't say that. I'm entirely happy with mine, it is in pretty much continuous use here, mainly as a video player. My wife likes to browse Youtube with it, in preference to her PC. As a game machine the graphics are spectacular. I lost a lot of hours of my life to Elder Scrolls. Looking forward to see what the cell architecture can do with a really physics intensive game. The thing has just worked without a hiccup from right out of the box. No problem configuring wireless. The internet browser is functional, though no Opera or Firefox. The controllers are impressive, a nice balanced design and they run a surprisingly long time on a charge. Running Linux is a nice plus. I fully expect some fun hacks to arrive in due course.

Wii owns the lower end gaming market, no doubt about it. But Wii doesn't come anywhere close to the graphics power of the PS3, and cutesy is not what I'm looking for in a game. PS3 seems to have been targetted right at me, and I seriously doubt I'm alone. I don't know what more I'd ask for in it. More titles, as if I had time for that :-)