Good Vibrations Dumped From PS3 For Cost Reasons
- October 6th, 2006
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, Kaz Hirai, said Sony dropped vibration feedback from the PS3 controllers because finding a way to combine it with the new tilt-motion sensors would have made the controllers too expensive for consumers. In a video interview he stated the “balancing act” that would have to take place in order to get the two technologies to co-exist just wasn’t worth the extra money and that keeping the tilt-motion sensors as an input method was more important than feedback.
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LKM (Who am I?)
2 years ago
And by “cost,” he means the price of licensing Immersion’s patents. Not the cost of the supposed technical problem of combining the motion sensor and the rumble. Which only exists in Hirai’s head, anyway, because combining these two has been done in several different controllers, some of them at least a decade old.
If Sony cared about the cost of the PS3, they’d replace the Bluray drive with a DVD drive. They wouldn’t get rid of the freaking controller’s vibrator.
KE Liew (Who am I?)
2 years ago
I wonder what happened to the product development process and costing.
I guess people tend to enjoy golf and priceless entertainment way too much?