The absence of force-feed back on PS3 controllers was a big question for us. The reason was that Immersion Company (the company that owns the patents on all the force feed back stuff on controllers) sued Sony because of the use of rumbling in their controllers. Now Sony will pay off all the money that the Federal District Court awarded to Immersion plus interest and make a business agreement. The agreement will allow Sony to use the technology of Immersion in PlayStation products.
I think that Sony got the idea that rumbling and force feed back is a "last generation feature" that "has" to be used in their controllers if they want to make them more popular.
The only question left is when are we finally going to see rumbling PS3 Controllers? No info on that is all I can tell you. We will hope that it will be soon.
Besides, adding rumbling function will shorten the battery life of wireless controllers so I think that many of us will be turning off that function. And many of us got used to rumble disabled controllers.
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