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Full details of the Sony and Immersion settlement photo

So we know Sony and Immersion kissed and made up. What wasn't stated though was how much this has cost Sony. Now we know:

Sony Corp. has agreed to pay Immersion Corp. $150.3 million in ending a patent infringement suit in which the latter company claimed the consumer electronics giant used its technology in the PlayStation videogame console.

That's not all.

In a separate, but related agreement, Sony has licensed Immersion technology for $22.5 million, the spokeswoman said.

That's a lot of money to pay for rumble. Hopefully, Sony will learn to turn their image around and make up this loss. 

 

 


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Mxyzptlk's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/03/2007 16:31
Mxyzptlk
But rumble is last gen!
Niero's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/03/2007 16:40
Niero
They need to develop Jiggle technology to cut costs down for consumers
Namelessted's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/03/2007 16:42
Namelessted
that may not be the official real reason. But i am sure a $150 million lawsuit doesn't help.
Crunshii's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/03/2007 16:42
Crunshii
well... if sony is so uprightous about their statements, I sure hope not to see any rumblers coming to the PS3 for their integrity sake.

They will totally loose all integrity if they now go from:

"We didnt want the Rumbler cuz its so last gen" to

"Look everyone! BRAND NEW GEN! Rumbler controllers, for the cheap cheap price of 300$!!!"

I will be very dissapointed if they switch their lies. They can shove up their arses that rumbler ever comes out and see if it vibrates there....
Joseph Leray's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/03/2007 17:03
Joseph Leray
Did SCEA project a loss of 150 million this quarter? So they're now, what, 300 mill in the whole? And how many PS3s do they need to seel? And how many games each?

Ouch.
Samit Sarkar's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/03/2007 17:17
Samit Sarkar
@Crunshii: Well, as far as I’m concerned, they don’t have too much integrity left, so they might as well go for broke (pun intended) with the whole rumble thing. Not only did they pay the lawsuit fees, but they also gave Immersion an additional $22.5 million to license the technology, which means they plan on using it — I assume they’ve got engineers working on it as I type this, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were sitting pretty with some good PR for the first time in a while. (I’m not counting their backing down on the Kotaku fiasco as “good PR” — it never should’ve happened in the first place.)
brucie97's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/03/2007 17:31
brucie97
I'd hate to see how much a new controller with rumble costs considering current costs for controllers.. Although rumble is nice, I don't see it as essential. I think that the tilt control has much more potential than rumble ever did.

That seems to be the story with the ps3 though, lots of potential.. I can't wait until games start coming out that use this potential.

BTW, PS3 owner..
Creamsnake's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/03/2007 17:35
Creamsnake
@ Orcist: A better question might be "How many Blu-Ray movies do they have to sell?"
elrechazao's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/03/2007 17:45
elrechazao
Phil Harrison and Jack Tretton told me I didn't want or need that last gen rumble garbage. I'm so confused now.
ghnvt's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/03/2007 18:29
ghnvt
Rumble is so last gen. Hmph!
velcroman's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/03/2007 18:31
velcroman
Sony wipes their butts with $150million
Burnt Meatloaf's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/03/2007 18:51
Burnt Meatloaf
$150 million will pay for the development of a very powerful high-tech chipset capable of billions of instructions per second.

Apparently, it also covers the idea of electric motors with weights attached to them.
Jecrell's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/03/2007 18:59
Jecrell
Well, out of their financial loses. It looks like it's good news for Sony.

Improbable, yes, but it happened.
908peruvian's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/03/2007 22:24
908peruvian
i thought they said Rumble caused interference with
the SixAxis technology?
will everyone have to buy two kinds of controllers now?

Sony sure thinks up so many ways to screw fans...

where are the games Sony?!?!?
leshrac55's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/04/2007 23:58
leshrac55
Perhaps the next "version" of the PS3/SIXAXIS will be with rumble, but throw out the PS2 backwards compatibility. 1 step forward, 2 steps back?

-Jeff
http://alinktothefuture.com
questworld's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/05/2007 07:07
questworld
I'll be happy when they finally get rumble back into their controllers for the PS3 (unless of course it does cause problems in its functionality).

This'll spun in a few ways:

1. They gave into their customers demands eventhough Sony thought rumble was unnecessary now.

2. They finally made rumble to work with motion control.
some_dude's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/05/2007 11:57
some_dude
Is there a retarded monkey in charge of Sony?


Civnerd's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/05/2007 15:15
Civnerd
the 22 million is probably for the PS2s they are currently selling..... and for the foreseeable future it looks like.
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