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does the ps3 support forces feedback in racing wheels and games?
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Last appeal they lost that I remember the fine was upped to $197 million.

However as several people aslready stated. the article is mis-quoted. Probably to get people all anti-Sony again. FF will be in some racing games at the developers choice.

If you were gullible enough to take that article at face value then you can think games like Guitar hero, Singstar or the upcoming Eye of judgement wouldn’t be possible since they aren’t developed around the sixaxis.

If this is true, we should rename the headline of this entry once more.

I just wish Sony would pay the damn fine and this would all be over.

And of course, sites like 1UP, put a sensational anti-PS3 spin on it to drum up traffic.

I hate wildly inaccurate and negative sensationalism like this. Tom, we should probably update the headline of this entry.

Sony was sued (or so I think), because it used 2 uneven rotary motors in its rumble, which already was patented by Immersion. No biggy here (I dont like rumble that much, not even in GT), but force feedback has nothing to do with these patens, as far as I know. I dont know, in how far FF is patentet, but the recent lawsuits are not part of it (Sony AFAIK never released FF products at all, at least not in Europe).

IF, and I really mean this, if Sony dropped FF completely (meaning Racing wheel support and all that), then they will surely lose many avid racing gamers to Microsoft! Really. I mean, I spent more than 100€ for my Wheel(s) and I am not willing to lose feedback, just because Sony says so (its just Software, you know. I paid the licensing with my Wheel thru Logitech!).

And then again, I think this is FUD and/or misunderstanding or mistranslation by IGN or whatever (its not like we havent seen this before). This is a standard feature since Outrun in 1986(every arcade racer had it ever since, patents only last for 20 years, just fyi) and I cant imagine good racing simulators without FF (ever played NFS MW with FF? I purely sucks!! GT3/4 show how to do it right).

And ditching older wheels would be a no go. The technology didnt change, its the same freaking interface ever since it was first introduced in pcs with MSs Sidewinder wheel. My wheel still has plenty of life ahead of it, and I dont plan on buying a new one just for the sake of the PS3 (which already will cost me 600€ (wont buy 500€ one, because of wifi psp and all that)).

Interestingly, a friend of mine has an older FF wheel, which works on my (big) PS2 but on his PSTwo, it doesnt Feedback… dunno why that is, exactly