Final-Fan said:
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Lone_Canis_Lupus said:
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Cheebee said:
That's kinda childish. :p
I noticed this too:
'DualShock 3
Announced after the failure of the 'Sixaxis' PS3 controller. After previously stating 'Rumble was last-gen' and 'Rumble wouldn't work in a motion-sensing controller', Sony ate their own words and once again copied Nintendo. They released this slightly updated version of their 'last-gen' controller, much to the amusement of the entire gaming world, and once again proving Sony reps are not to be taken too seriously.'
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Why is everyone taking a low blow about the "no-rumble" when I've seen so many Nintendo fanboys going "Z0MG!! S0NY C0P13D RUMB13!!" in the PS2 generation...my friends were STILL hung up on that when vibration had pretty much become a standard. Also, Sony didn't take out rumble because "it was last-gen", it was because of legal issues with Immersion. Did people miss this memo? When Immersion SUED Sony AND Microsoft?
I'm sure you'd be pissed if you were sued as well. They were probably just like "Forget it, we'll worry about it later, rumble isn't needed." Plus, things change. You think because they made the rumble and sixaxis possible with each other, they were lieing before? That's like saying it's impossible to improve a car to have more horsepower with time and work of a company that specializes with vehicles. Rome wasn't built in a day, ways to do things previously thought impossible come about. |
Sony did say that though. In an interview with Phil Harrison early last year:
http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/features/phil-harrison-we-are-under-no-pressure-to-drop-ps3s-price/70094/?biz=1
BIZ: A lot of gamers, including myself, enjoy the controller's motion sensing at times, but we still miss rumble. If gamers want it and are vocal enough, will Sony reintroduce the force feedback at some point?
PH: We have no plans to do so in the standard controller that ships with PlayStation 3. I believe that the Sixaxis controller offers game designers and developers far more opportunity for future innovation than rumble ever did. Now, rumble I think was the last generation feature; it's not the next-generation feature. I think motion sensitivity is. And we don't see the need to do that. Having said that, there will be specific game function controllers, potentially like steering wheels that do include vibration or feedback function—not from us but from third parties. |
I didn't say that it wasn't said, I was just saying the Immersion suit was probably the main reason they didn't go with rumble. I'm just pointing out that people are misinformed about this whole rumble thing. You can't say after getting sued by Immersion by having rumble in their controllers that it had nothing to do with it. |
That's actually worse. That they lied directly to the consumers... then didn't even stay consistant with the lie.
You gotta stick to your lies. Look at OJ. It worked for him. |
It's bad that they based their decision on a financial issue rather than an emotional one? Companies don't remove a feature because they feel it is "last-gen". Companies don't make decisions based on emotion. They make their decisions based on what the consumer wants or the money the company has to blow. If a company does something because they want to, are you really going to trust that company much?
It's better to have a company that doesn't appeal to emotion and makes logical decisions. It was a legal and financial issue at the time, now it isn't and they're bringing rumble in. Make sense? Plus, it's the cold hard truth, companies lie. Including Nintendo and Microsoft, no major company is completely honest. They all try to hide things, every company is corrupted to some point. |
It's bad because they directly lied about it to the consumer. Rather then saying "We're not putting it in because it's a last gen feature."
Had they said "The current sixaxis controller does not have rumble due to a lawsuit."
As such they should get ragged on about it. As should any other companies that get caught in their lies. Most companies also don't outright lie. They spin. Which is different, and bad, though not as bad. |
When did Phil Harrison say that they're removing rumble because it's a "last-gen feature? When did Phil Harrison represent all of Sony? All Phil Harrison said was "Now, rumble I think was the last generation feature; it's not the next-generation feature." Where in there did Phil Harrison ever say "We're removing rumble because we think it's a last-gen feature."?
All he said was what he believed and what he thought. No where in there did they say why they removed rumble. He just answered the question on whether they would be introducing rumble or not to the system in the future and continued on with his thoughts on the rumble versus the Six-Axis. Phil Harrison addresses his thoughts on the matter and everybody goes insane like that was the reason Sony removed the rumble? That is kind of silly. Why they removed rumble wasn't mentioned, just what Phil Harrison thought about it. |
Are you serious? He speaks for Sony since he's a senior executive doing authorized interviews. If you think he was talking out of his ass you are gravely mistaken. He directly implied that the Sixaxis does not have rumble because "next-gen" controllers do not have any need of that "last-gen" feature, when the reality was that it lacked rumble because Sony got its ass handed to it in a lawsuit, and as soon as the legal issues were over, lo and behold there is rumble in the PS3 standard controllers.
In fact, you yourself have apparently switched positions on this. You said:
They were probably just like "Forget it, we'll worry about it later, rumble isn't needed."
Since Phil Harrison said:
We have no plans to do so in the standard controller that ships with PlayStation 3.
then obviously, if you were right, then Sony, as an authorized spokesperson for Sony, lied. He did not say that as thought or opinion or as speculation, but as a statement of fact. We DO NOT have plans at this time to ever do that. |
Ah, in fact you just repeated pretty much what I said in that last part. They said they had to plans in doing so. They answered the question given to them. This was on what they planned on doing in the FUTURE, not on what just happened. They weren't asked "Why was rumble not included?" but rather "Will rumble be included in future controllers?"
All he said at was they had no plans to do so in the future. Does that mean one can not change ones mind? They could not have had plans at the time at all and decided to make plans for rumble later on. Think about this. A friend can ask me if I want to go to a party of their's this weekend and I could already have plans for this weekend, so I say "No, sorry, I already have plans"...now say things change, something came up and I can't go do what I had planned for that weekend. Instead, I call up my friend again and say "Change of plans, is that invite for the party still up?"
The thing is, as time goes on, things change. It's just a fact. He was asked a question, he answered it with "We don't have plans" and made a comment on what HE thought about the subject. His views don't neccesarly represent the views of the whole company. He wasn't asked WHY they didn't include rumble but if they WERE going to include rumble in the future. I didn't switch positions. They could have had trouble at the time with it and things changed later on.
