Today's strip deals with the New dual shock 3 controller. Relevant News post included below (he talks about halo 3 reviews and some other stuff, but that's not related to the comic)

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic

When Sony's Jack Tretton claimed it was impossible to find a Playstation 3 at retail, we cautioned them

about the use of out-and-out falsehoods - suggesting that they instead massage verifiable facts. But later in the same month, vile morlock Phil Harrison told GameDaily that rumble was merely some vestigial bullshit about to be shorn off by their futuristic love machine.

That's not why they didn't include it, of course: it had nothing to do with the "future." At other times, the story was variably one of cost concerns or technical hurdles. Despite the fact that both of their current systems include web browsers, I'm not sure if they've heard of the Internet. It took me about five minutes to reconstruct their concussed media narrative - a bewildered, tragic thing stumbling through the woods very late at night.

The Wii remote - the very icon of a system whose technical sophistication is played for yuks in developer circles - crams in a pointing device, an auxiliary input, motion sensing, rumble, a speaker, and writable memory. And it came out around the same time as the Sixaxis, so I feel confident saying that (by this point) mankind had mastered those strange forces. The reality is that Sony's ongoing legal "rumble" with Immersion over their force feedback patents necessitated this entire Sixaxis abortion. Of course, they did eventually pay - years later - just as we will all pay next spring, when the new controller is released in the States. This would have been a great opportunity to decouple the battery from the pad, or jettison those sloppy triggers altogether. Why didn't they? I'm sure they have a very good reason.

Sony has done absolutely terrible with PR this generation.

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.

Sony said so, it must be the truth.

 I have no idea, why they say these things. It's like they think no one is listening, or that we are incredibly stupid and don't have any research tools, or understanding of the industry. that may have been true back in the SNES days, but things have changed alot now. If you make BS claims, the internet community will call you out on it.

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:

I have no idea, why they say these things. It's like they think no one is listening, or that we are incredibly stupid and don't have any research tools, or understanding of the industry. that may have been true back in the SNES days, but things have changed alot now. If you make BS claims, the internet community will call you out on it.

None of that was true in the SNES days really. There are just more mediums available today to allow people to become vocal on the subject than there were back then.

Guys, given the horrible news about the Coriolis Effect, i've gathered some sites with information regarding it, in an attempt to overcome it, here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect
http://teacherresourceexchange.org/science/coriolis/
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy00/phy00733.htm

Please.. if we put our minds together to overcome this problem we would have a better future, where it'd be possible for the DualShock 3 and the PS3 to coexist peacefully within one bundle.

The future is in your hands

Well, let's join hands then and get rid of this apparent deflection of moving objects from a straight path when they are viewed from a rotating frame of reference. Then the PS3 will come bundled with the dualshock 3.

Ownd ;)

I like penny arcade because they don't rely on Sony/microsoft/nintendo for revenue so they are free to tell it like it is. And they aren't biased, they are so broad in their gaming scope that the 3 current gen consoles are a drop in the bucket for them.