PS3 rumble controller -- it's being considered... yay?
by Nick Doerr 
{ Oct 30th 2006 at 1:30PM }
The title line really says all there is about the topic... but we'll go ahead and dig a little deeper. Let's set aside the countless Immersion Technologies lawsuits, the twisted quips from Sony execs, etc etc. What's going on inside the SIXAXIS? What's the plausibility of rumble? Hori, one of the best officially licensed PS2 peripheral providers in Japan, recently sat down with a Q&A session with Famitsu magazine to go over their plans with the PS3. When it came to rumble, Hori said about the idea: "We have some ideas. However, we'd need cooperation from software makers." This is exactly the point that gets breezed by many times -- it doesn't matter if a controller has rumble unless the software has the code in it to... well... make the rumble work. It's not the question of "if" a controller can have both rumble and tilt -- it definitely can. The question is "if" software makers will care to incorporate both tilt and rumble in their software. Hopefully, third party software companies will decide to work with a third party peripheral company to give us first rate rumblings. That worked out pretty well. 3 + 3 = 1 in my book, anyway.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Pulse @ Oct 30th 2006 2:07PM
YAY! Thats ecellent news if it goes ahead, not that it really matters, I was really starting to feel sorry for those that gave the impression they would die a pitiful death without rumble, how sad....
To all those that did say that -_- ...get a life...
alienclay @ Oct 31st 2006 2:31AM
maybe we can take a chanse to look and "play beyond" passive rumble here.
i'm not saying taking it out was a plus, but maybe there's something better. sometihnhg that would go well with the six access motion sensing. like gyroscopic force feedback, or perhaps an "electro"duelshock controller.
without sony support, any hope for 3rd party accessory support will be slim at best. like the logitech steering wheel support for gran turismo. but not much after that. wouldn't be cost effective.
Preacher @ Oct 31st 2006 5:04PM
It's about time that Sony did something right. I don't think this is going to do anything to save them, but it's a start.
Why I think the PS3 may fail:
http://reviewsblog.sonsofgodclan.net/2006/10/31/why-the-ps3-may-fail.aspx