Joystiq [PlayStation]

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.