| Darc Requiem said: I never understood Sony's handling of the situation to begin with. It would have been cheaper to just pay Immersion instead just losing case after case to them in the courts. Not only that, their PR for the situation was just awful. I mean there was PS1 Pelican controller with tilt sensitivity and rumble. Not to mention the Wii-mote has more advanced motion sensing along with rumble and wireless ability. Why did they bother with this dog and pony show? Especially when they knew they were planning to hash things out with Immersion. |
Lawsuits are often very silly. Sony is supposed to assess the cost of losing the lawsuit and compare that to their probability of winning. A little simplified, sure, but this is a cost-benefit analysis of whether the lawsuit should continue. Someone either botched the calculation of cost of losing the lawsuit, or didn't realize how costly it could potentially be to launch their flagship product without rumble.
I bet someone felt slighted and the case continued way b3yond when it should have ended. This was actually a case where MS saw the writing on the wall and settled first, but part of their settlement included getting money related to Sony's inevitable settlement.
With regards to Sony's PR division -- they remind me of David Brent from The Office:
David Brent (Ricky Gervais): I gave a speech only this morning to my staff assuring them that there would not be cutbacks at this branch and there certainly wouldn't be redundancies, so...
Jennifer (Stirling Gallagher): Well, why on Earth would you do that?
David Brent: Why? Oh, don't know. A little word I think's important in management called morale.
Jennifer: Well, surely it's going to be worse for morale in the long run when there ARE redundancies and you've told people that there won't be.
[Pause]
David Brent: They won't remember
