PS3 Finally Ready to Rumble?

An anonymous reader writes "Sony has finally settled its longstanding legal dispute over infringement of Immersion Corporation's force feedback patents, which reportedly led to Sony's decision to remove rumble technology from the PS3 controller, by agreeing to pay Immersion at least $150.3 million in damages and royalties. The agreement presumably will result in rumble and perhaps other of Immersion's force-feedback technologies being incorporated in future Sony controllers. Microsoft previously settled a similar lawsuit brought by Immersion, but Sony hung on tenaciously despite complaints about its controller products and disappointing PS3 sales." There's no guarantee that the tech will show up in the Sixaxis controller, of course. After all, rumble is a 'last-gen' feature.

wow

[mastershake_phd]

$150 million to make something vibrate. I wonder if they will go after cell-phones and beepers next.

yay!

[sandmtyh]

Good to know sony is willing to take losses on the new console to make it "better"

Re:Sony Teaches A Patent Extornionist A Lesson

[Rycross]

Except that Sony did cave and hand over millions in cash. 150 million.

Re:wow

[jimstapleton]

or certain recreational devices...

Wait, how long have those been around with that feature? Longer than patents for such things? Prior art maybe?

Re:Jut need to So ignoring the loss on each Ps3, s

[fistfullast33l]

Was that an irish coffee [wikipedia.org]?