CEO: Sony Can Add PS3 Rumble For Cheap

Vic Viegas, the CEO of Immersion Corp., has taken another public shot at Sony, saying that the company could easily and cheaply add rumble support to its PS3 controller.

Responding to Sony's recent statements that adding rumbling support to the motion-sensing PS3 controller would be too expensive, the CEO of force-feedback company Immersion Corp. told Next-Gen.biz that the company knows of inexpensive ways to add rumble support.

Is adding rumbling support to the PS3 controller more expensive? "I just don't believe it is," Viegas said. According to Viegas, his company "knows of ways to combine these two technologies without incremental increase to the cost," adding that Immersion has helped another company do just that.

By adding rumble support to the PS3 controller, Sony would do consumers "a huge disservice by coming up with a controller that is not very affordable," Hirai said recently.

"[Sony] will feel it in their pocketbook" if they don't add the missing rumble support, Viegas concluded.

Viega's company, Immersion, is currently locked in a bitter legal struggle with Sony concerning the company's use of force-feedback technology in its PlayStation and PS2 controllers.

THE VERDICT by Sid Shuman Sid Shuman's Avatar

Grain of salt time: Immersion has a lot to gain by twisting Sony's arm into adding that rumble support. I get emails all the time from their PR reps, urging me to write stories about how Sony might lose the next-gen war, etc, for not adding rumble support.

I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. It's a shame that they're losing rumbling (though they could add it later if they wanted to), but it's hardly a devastating loss.

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