Viper1 said:
You need to find a new source or a buddy has been lying to you.
Immersion Corp sued Sony for patent infringement a few years ago because the technology in the DualShock 2 was too similar to the technology Immersion Corp owns the patents to. At this same time, they suded Microsoft. Microsoft settled the suit out of court and as part of the settlement bought 11% of the company shares (the number might be off now that I think about it but it's close). Sony decided to fight the lawsuit in court and lost. Immersion Corp was awarded a $90+ million win over Sony. They then appealed the rulling twice and lost both. At this point MS sold off it's shares to Immersion Corp but still licenses the rumble technology from them. Sony and Immersion Corp finally came to terms with how best to pay the $90 million and that's by adding Immerions Corps newest rumble based technology into the PS3 since Sony coudln't do it on their own which is the new rumble tech being discussed above (though itsounds exactly like old generation rumble and nothing new).
Nintendo was never sued by Immersion Corp because Nintendo developed and patented their won technology.
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You misread my post. To clarify, what I heard at the time was that Nintendo owned part of Immersion hence why it wasn't sued... or something like that.
Let's see what I can dig up on it...
Edit: Seems fishy...
Quote Victor Viegas (CEO of Immersion): "We never analysed Nintendo products.” Is the more-than surprising answer offered. “There is, I believe, a difference in the technologies used but we never investigated those of Nintendo.”
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