PS3 pad could have rumbled

Friday 26 May 2006
A games accessory manufacturer has claimed that Sony could have built a rumble feature into the PlayStation 3 controller and th༒at the reason it hasn't inclu🧔ded one is actually down to legal - not technical - issues.

Technology company, Immersion, won a lawsuit against Sony in 2004 after it claimed the PlaySt👍ation maker had illegally used its 'haptic' technology in the PS2 DualShock pad, a decision that Sony is currently appealing against.

Immersion has 🍎since granted games accessory manufacturer, eDimensional, permission to use some of its technology in the G-Pad Pro Gyroscopic controller for PC and PS2, which features both vibration and motion-sensing capabilities.

The fact that both these features have successfully been combined in the controller conflicts with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Sony's claims that it was unable to include any rumble fe𝔍ature in the PS3 pad 💃as the vibration would interfere with the information detected by the motion sensor.

Speaking to industry website gamesindustry.biz, an eDimensional representative said that "making these two features work together is not difficult but requires knowledge of haptic technologies. Based on that information, it sounds like there is more to the story than Sony is telling us."