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Sony Doesn't Take the Bait for SplitFish PS3 Rumble

Still hopeful that Sony might one day bring rumble back to the PlayStation 3? It doesn't look like it's going to happen. A company called SplitFish has announced new rumble tech that works with motion sensing and sidesteps Immersion's patents, but Sony told GameDaily BIZ that it's not interested.

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CAPS LOCK6320d ago

i don't understand why they just don't implement it. i mean it would benefit us gamers.

Siesser6320d ago

I don't know. I'm hoping it's because they're trying to work on their own technology. If not, then it's silly pride on their part. Or maybe the technology just isn't that good, who knows?

Arkham6320d ago

They know they can do it, but it's too late. People will get over it.

gnothe16320d ago

the technology isnt that good!!an also it goes against what they said about rumble the whole time!!RUMBLE IS LAST GEN!!so if they add this now, how would that look!!

JIN KAZAMA6320d ago

same as when MS said that 1080P is virtually impossible to do, and then turned around and announced that they will be doing 1080P. People will always forget, as long as they get what they want. If they implement rumble, i am not gonna go and picket infront of Sony and yell, "YOU LIED TO US SONY, U SAID RUBMLE IS LAST-GEN, AND NOW U IMPLEMENT IT..BOO HOO HOO". As all the 360 zombies would do, theyd say, "hahaha, we told you, SONY LIES....LIES!!!!" So DUMB!

hardwood20016320d ago

JIN KAZAMA- You should know the Xbox 360 has a chip dedicated specially to do 1080p for the system. Microsoft like every other company, were waiting for Hollywood to finalize the specs for HD movies. After the specs became final the update to the chip went through to allow all Xbox 360's to do 1080p natively, for movies and games. If I remember correctly the chip was called "ANA". What is so special about this chip is it's ability to operate WITH the Xbox 360's system, therefore not using anymore power from the CPU or GPU.

TheMART6320d ago

BULL

No rumble is a miss.

If Rumble is last gen, motion sensing is also. That has been done a long time ago. MS did it with the Sidewinder also for the PC. And it failed, people only used it for 5 minutes and then switched without it.

Sony's online system is also last gen. So PS2... So not premium like XBL is!

And no force feedback on racing wheels? WTF is that? The 360 has a very nice racing wheel with force feedback

Shadow Flare6320d ago

Its not too late to incorporate it. The psone started off with a basic controller, then later it got analogue sticks and then later it got dualshock. The splitfish design sounds like a great idea, it would've been brilliant with the sixaxis. I still don't get how it works if it has no mechanical parts. Who knows, maybe the design really sucks. Maybe they literally filled a sixaxis controller half full with water. So when you jolt the controller around fowards and sideways the water inside would give that extra bit of force for a deeper game experience. Well they did say they specifically created it with motion controllers in mind.

OutLaw6320d ago

I have a PS3 and I feel that the downside of having it is the no rumble feature. So I hope that Sony would just look like a liar just one more time and put this feature in the controller for all their loyal supporters who already purchased the system.

One more lie is not going to kill them and may also convince some more people to actually purchase the PS3.

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Why Is No One Making AAA Horror Games Anymore?

Saif from eXputer inquires, "Despite the everlasting popularity of the genre, why hasn't there been a good AAA horror game in a while now?"

Jin_Sakai2d ago

Because the gaming industry is obsessed with live service games.

Cacabunga1d 12h ago

Even FPS are rare nowadays

Rynxie1d 11h ago

Because he touches himself at night to characters like lady Dimitrescu.

Crows901d 7h ago

You're the one still thinking about her

Rynxie1d 7h ago

@crow

Did I give away your secret? It's okay, if you sit on your hand and numb it, you can pretend it's her playing with your little stick.

MaximusPrime_1d 23h ago

Good for me, I have no interests in horror games

-Foxtrot1d 14h ago

Even when they do it's first person trying to copy Outlast, Five Nights, P.T etc

I think the Dead Space / RE2 / RE4 Remake and the Evil Within 2 showed you can have a good story based, third person survival horror game.

jeromeface1d 12h ago

remakes is another good reason

thesoftware7301d 11h ago

Calisto Protocol was also fun with fantastic presentation.

FinalFantasyFanatic1d 4h ago

I feel like we haven't had much in the way of horror games for years, I think it became rare after the PS2/PS3 gen. Maybe i'll pick up that Crow Country that recently came out, that looks good.

Venoxn4g1d 1h ago

Crow Country needs some more love.. and more exposure

Redemption-641d 12h ago

Because outside of a fee games, most don't sell that well

Crows901d 7h ago

So in other words...AAA publishers don't have creativity or passion for games.

CrimsonWing691d 12h ago

Didn’t we have Dead Space Remake and Resident Evil 4 Remake last year?

thorstein1d 12h ago (Edited 1d 12h ago )

Among others

And isn't Dying Light 2 a horror game?

Scissorman1d 12h ago

And Alan Wake 2 and Alone in the Dark.

on_line_forever20h ago

I like Alone in the dark but it's not AAA game

richardmmorales1d 3h ago

We also had The Quarry and The Dark Pictures The Devil In Me.

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N64: Recompiled — Creating Native PC Ports Is A Godsend For Game Preservation

"In a time when companies don't care about preserving games, I have high respect for the creators of projects like N64: Recompiled." - Hanzala from eXputer.

gold_drake3d ago

it is, i might be finally able to play Snowboard kids 1 full screen ha.

purple1012d ago

il beat you to the ski-lift,

framerate on snowboard kids was shocking, do you remember./?

talking of shocking framerate and kart racers style games,
Sony had a gem on ps3, with 'Modnation Racers' but again, framerate was so terrible, still fun though, indeed, when is drifting sideways not fun, the answer is never. we have not seen enough of that game, technically some people made race tracks/games in dreams and little big planet etc, but its just not the same,!!! grrrrr

morning rant over.

here, relive some ,memories. https://www.youtube.com/wat...

itBourne2d ago

The load time on ModNation where also excruciatingly long... But man oh man I wish that game took off more, so much fun! Could turn off garbage rubber banding, I had karts with 100's of stickers to design some crazy cool stuff, custom tracks. Fantastic undeappreciated game

gold_drake2d ago

SK1 had a fairly good framerate. sk2 maybe not so much ha

Redgrave2d ago

Some food for thought:

Would you donate your physical copy of a really rare/expensive cartridge (Conkers's BFD, Bomberman 64 Second Attack, Ogre Battle 64, the two Castlevania titles, etc) to those managing this project for the greater good of getting them preserved online for all to experience at some point?

UltimateOwnage2d ago

As long as it meant they never took money from Patreon and invited a DMCA takedown / lawsuit by Nintendo to take it all away. After seeing the whole debacle with Yuzu I now question how long any of these teams can maintain game preservation efforts through emulator development, or otherwise.

franwex2d ago

I mean. They may borrow them…

Profchaos2d ago

Is it realistically needed though I would not personally give anyone my old carts for games that are already persevered and easily available online

Inverno2d ago

The snippet of ray tracing at the end of the og trailer was low-key amazing. I found out thanks to Nerrel who also made a texture pack for MM, and i can't wait to see how much more great this game will be in the near future. With model swaps, ray tracing, retextures, and a more quicker process than decompilation, it's gonna bring new life to N64 games.

Profchaos2d ago

There might need to be a bit of clarification recompilation is not the same as decompilation.

This is basically a container to excite the rom within but allows for all sorts of beat additions and tricks like new lighting effects such as ray tracing to be added.

But decompilation would ultimately be king as it allows for a widespread porting capabilities and uses the assets from games to build a native install for PC or whatever the target system is e.g Mario 64 for PC or sonic mania for psvita / wii

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