Industry News | Sony: Rumble is so Last Generation

Yet more industry commentary from the big boys in gaming, this time a slightly more amusing comment from Sony's Phil Harrison, once again bringing up the now age-old topic of the PS3's lack of rumble support; it's a last-generation feature, apparently.

In a featured interview with GameDaily, Harrision was questioned on why Sony's PlayStation 3 console lacks what many consider to be a fairly essential feature in input devices, rumble.

BIZ: A lot of gamers, including myself, enjoy the controller's motion sensing at times, but we still miss rumble. If gamers want it and are vocal enough, will Sony reintroduce the force feedback at some point?

PH: We have no plans to do so in the standard controller that ships with PlayStation 3. I believe that the Sixaxis controller offers game designers and developers far more opportunity for future innovation than rumble ever did. Now, rumble I think was the last generation feature; it's not the next-generation feature. I think motion sensitivity is. And we don't see the need to do that. Having said that, there will be specific game function controllers, potentially like steering wheels that do include vibration or feedback function