The latest issue of Famitsu PS2 has a short Q&A session with Hori, maker of some of the finest officially-licensed PlayStation 2 peripherals. The biggest bit from the interview concerns a piece of technology that's missing from Sony's new Sixaxis controller: rumble.
Asked if Hori was considering a peripheral to give PS3 players the gift of shake, the representative stated, "We have some ideas. However, we'd need cooperation from software makers."
Let's hope some third parties are willing to make their games compatible with a non-standard rumble accessory.
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It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
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They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
anything that`s got nothing to do with immersion cop. would be welcome.i strongly believe sometime next year there`s gonna be rumble on ps3
if Hori decides to create a "rumble like" feature, i hope it'll be something uniquely special. something that'll set it apart from the Immersion rumble. then again, it HAS to be different or else they'll get their asses sued.
If they made it, I would buy it. Heck, I'd pay $5 or $10 extra for Sony to include it with the SixAxis.
If Nintendo isnt paying Imersion then they have won the battle against the patent company and all Sony would have to do is buy rights from nintendo right?
Maybe Im Wrong.
But I do know that Sony has apealed the Immersion suit and that rumble can always be implemented later on.
It is certainly possible and would be a good thing for them to avoid paying Immersion.I think Sony's intent is to avoid paying any royalties to Immersion especially if its true that Microsoft owns an interest in them. All new games could automatically be made to support it and games that are made before this rumble controller(if and I hope they do make it) can be supported by a down-loadable patch. In any event I'd welcome it.