Good Vibrations Dumped From PS3 For Cost Reasons

and sponsor of a little research on consumer reaction to Sony dropping it from the PS3 controllers) responded to the comments made by Hirai by claiming that the addition would not have cost the consumers much at all.

SCEA’s Hirai: Rumble Cut Because Of Cost [1Up]

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LKM

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

I wonder what happened to the product development process and costing.

I guess people tend to enjoy golf and priceless entertainment way too much?

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