people say rumble is a must have, others dont care cause they dont notice it. In the past the rumble feature was used to increase the feel of the game in a way that wasnt possible due to limitations in the visual and audible aspects of games. It wasnt until playing god of war that i realized that rumble was overrated. Yes it feels good to feel the recoil of your blows hiting hard into the flesh of monsters and the sharp jabs from getting hit... at first, then you dont notice it when your into the game. But what you do notice when your getting backed into a corner, health low, you almost have the boss strategy figured out? Not the rumble, it almost kicks at your fustration, the antisipation, the angst. You pause the game in the middle of battle where the minotaur just finished off a large attack giving you a second to get back in whenyou unpause. You notice something amiss.... an erie silence from your own body... your heart doesnt seem to be beating as fast with antisapation as you originally thought... you feel your chest, it beats quick but not as you thought, you unpause the game, your heart feels as if it quickens, the blood rushing so that its pounding in your ears, you react to slow to a swinging paw, the pounding beat of your heart quivers and stops. you leave a sigh or disgress and prepare to start the fight over again. Its then you realize that the feeling of your heart quickening, its rushing blood thumping in your ears was fabricated using low level sound frequencies that corolate directly to kratos's health. With this realization you no longer have to worry bout watching his health bar, you know your magical limits, rumble is non existant in midbattle. Kratos's heart echo's your own seemingly quickening as you struggle and weaken, beating faintly harder in your ear.



I know my descriptive narrative is rusty, probably to the point of lock-jaw, but i hope you get the idea. Rumble may not be nessicary anymore. Technology has brought forth more innovative ways to pull you into the game. Rumble pulls from the sense of feeling, its also one of the easier senses to block out. Do you feel the nail in your foot from the nail gun before you see it? Do you feel pain from a gunshot wound immediatly if you dont hear it, let alone see it? Howbout the constant 1ton pressure of air pressing against you from above? Feeling is a concious effort of interaction, Sight and hearing goes deeper into the stem of our brains.

duh!

#8: Wait, are you telling me you decided to not buy a PS3 and might get a 360 just because there is no rumble feature? Your kidding right? Deciding not to buy a console because of rumble. Why don't just say your were gonna buy a 360 anyway? Doesen't make sence.



#11: Again WTF! You lost all hope in a system because of Rumble feature isn't included. What other things made you loose hope, because it can't just be rumble feature, or this would be the stupidist thing I ever heard. Wow, just wow!

From the article, it appears Immersion will try to do whatever it can to get rumble include in the PS3, as that's one of it's source or revenue. And when Immersion is that desperate, Sony is bound to get a good deal out of it.