This one of those stories that makes me wonder about Sony's overall intelligence. The market for the PS3 in Japan isn't much better than the market for the XBOX 360. But in both Europe and the US Sony is doing pretty well. Europe especially... So how is our healthy gaming markets status repaid? In ambivalence by Sony. Sony says that the current production schedule doesn't allow for an earlier release but considering the Japanese, North American, and European controllers are the same hardware it is hard to understand how it could be only releasing in one market.
In theory anxious players could import Japanese versions of the controllers. That leads to the real reason perhaps, for the delay in shipping. The games that have all ready been released that are supposed to have rumble support will not support it due to the American patches won't be out. Which seems to point to this being a software issue rather than a production issue.
Last but not least I would like to say that this feature should have been included from the beginning and the fact that the motion controls and sheer discomfort of PS3's weightless controller are probably the reactionaries for the return of rumble rather than Sony realizing in a midnight revelation that people want rumble in their games. Which people do, as do developers. Sony has pointed to the lawsuit that was ongoing during the PS3's development as the reason why they didn't have rumble but this is more than a year after that lawsuit was settled and it will be more than a year from the American release that people outside of Japan will be able to feel the rumble again; even though the rumble technology is the same as that used in PS2's dual shock controller.
Sony really needs to get clear of all of these growing pains. It's hard to understand how a company that was the leader in the last generation could be so disorganized and make so many mistakes in the beginning of this generation.
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