Sony must really hate their engineers.

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/immersion/hirai-rumble-possible-motion-sensing-a-strategic-choice-205056.php

Basically, the execs at Sony, when asked why they can’t implement rumble in their controllers is that the motion sensitivity would be disrupted by the vibration in the controller.

Now, anyone who’s been following this knows that the *real* reason that Sony doesn’t have rumble in their controllers is that they don’t want to pay Immersion, who they’re fighting in court because they violated one (or more) of their patents.

So, that’s fine – they’re contesting the infringement. But I guess that the execs at Sony are *so* loathe to mention this that they’re willing to throw their engineers in front of the bus, and make them look like *complete morons*.

I mean, it doesn’t take a whole brain to figure out that the frequency of rumble-related motion and gameplay-related motion are totally, totally different. There’s never, ever going to be any time when a player’s movement at ridiculously high frequency is ever going to matter in a game. It’s just not. You can block off reading motion on any frequency higher than X, and you’ll probably improve the experience overall, because you’ll eliminate meaningless noise, and wacky unintentional user input.

That, and Pelican made a motion sensing controller, with vibration, way back when, and their controllers are incredibly poorly made.

So, Sony’s basically saying that their “world class” engineers are incapable of doing something a mostly inept third party was doing several years ago? And that it’s a task that the solution is obvious to anyone who devotes even twenty seconds to think about that?

I know Sony’s execs don’t really care about their peons, but telling the world their engineering staff are complete morons doesn’t really seem like the best sort of morale boosting move at a time like this.