Sony paid for the vibration

4th March 2007

The Immersion Company, a developer of controllers feedback technologies and the american department of Sony Computer Entertainment after long trials concerning the legality of the use of this technology in the controllers of PlayStation consoles came to the agreement. Finally, Immersion will have extra $ 8.7 million to already earned in March last year $ 82 million (1.37% of the profits from sales of Sony accessories using this technology) as a compensation, which, actually, even in the sum is less than originally requested $ 299 million, coupled with the relatively small compensation of costs. Now representatives of Immersion will no longer be interfered with Sony with their technology and Sony will be able to use its own technology, so that it is possible that quite soon controllers SIXAXIS will vibrate again, as it was at the time of the PlayStation 3 development.