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Controller tech fist fight! Personally, I'd perfer feedback to sensor tech—especially for shooters and driving games. But Sony Computer Entertainment of America boss Kaz Hirai states it was a strategic choice not to include the rumble feedback. Ellaborating, Kaz says:
The issue is trying to isolate the vibration feature from the motion sensors. Is it technically feasible? Absolutely. But the balancing act that you need to do, is to be able to present the controller to the consumer at an affordable price. We have one controller in the box, but many consumers will want to go out and get an extra controller. To isolate the vibration from the sensing, if that means that the controllers are going to be so expensive, then we're doing the consumer a huge disservice.
Not even going to touch that bit about doing the consumer a huge disservice or making the controllers so expensive, but will add that we had thought it was that ongoing lawsuit with rumble tech creator Immersion Corporation that's keeping the PS3 controllers rumble-free. Silly us.
Sensor Beats Rumble [Kikizo]
