PS3 manual mentions rumble

By Tom Bramwell Published 4 January, 2007

NBA 2K7 cocks up copy.

Whoopsy daisy. Looks like somebody didn't tell 2K Sports about the PlayStation 3's loss of vibration until too late. Either that or one of the copy writers was having a bad day, because a poster on the official PlayStation message boards has unearthed a page of NBA 2K7's PS3 manual that highlights its support for, er, pad vibration.

Scanned and posted on gaming blogs, the page in question refers to the "24/7: NEXT" mode and says, "Once you start feeling your heart rate pumping (via controller vibration), you'll be ready to begin!" The very next sentence makes mention of the tilt functionality, which seems to rule out the possibility that it was simply a copy-and-paste from the Xbox 360 manual that slipped through undetected.

Whatever the truth, Sony's decision to do away with rumble in favour of motion-sensing has been widely criticised since its announcement at E3 last May, although senior executives including Kaz Hirai and Phil Harrison have defended the choices made.

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Comments (27) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • JediMasterMalik #1 5 years ago

    Slow news day?

  • Eraser #2 5 years ago

    whoops!
    Oh well, it happends. I remember that the test versions of Quake 3 contained different graphics for the plasmagun and railgun which were changed shortly before release. The instruction booklet that comes with Quake 3 still shows the old graphics.

  • Steroyd #3 5 years ago

    Maybe they copy and pasted from the Xbox 360 case?

  • brooza #4 5 years ago

    Maybe they copy and pasted from the Xbox 360 case?

    I believe they address that suggestion in the article
    Edited by brooza at 04/01/07 @ 09:53

  • Blerk #5 5 years ago

    this just makes me want to blurt out a secret

    I don't see what your love of wearing womens' underwear has to do with this article? :-)

    Anyway, I do find myself wondering if rumble support is still in the PS3 dev libraries so that it can be built into games "just in case" it ever finds its way back into the pad. Anyone on the inside care to spill that particular can of worms?

  • AcidSnake #6 5 years ago

    Ooohhh... The suspence!
    Come on spaceman!

  • Pirotic #7 5 years ago

    (some) PS3 games still have the rumble coded in, they never really removed it from a developers pov, it's just the pad doesn't listen. Give it a year and they'll have found a way around the lawsuit and we'll all be happily rumbling again.

  • Rambaldi #8 5 years ago

    "senior executives including Kaz Hirai and Phil Harrison have defended the choices made."

    Well as long as THEY'RE happy, fuck consumers eh?

  • Blerk #9 5 years ago

    (some) PS3 games still have the rumble coded in, they never really removed it from a developers pov, it's just the pad doesn't listen. Give it a year and they'll have found a way around the lawsuit and we'll all be happily rumbling again.

    Aha! As I suspected, but could never get anyone to admit. Cheers, Piro - I hope they don't kill you for telling us that. ^_^

  • Grim... #10 5 years ago

    Maybe spaceman is a woman?

  • Tweakmonkey #11 5 years ago

    Maybe if you plug in a dualshock the rumble works?

  • Blerk #12 5 years ago

    Maybe if you plug in a dualshock the rumble works?

    Heh heh... where exactly are you planning to plug that DualShock? :-)

  • Tweakmonkey #13 5 years ago

    I dunno. I'm not planning on buying a PS3 anyway...

  • in5ane #14 5 years ago

    Dualshocks work on the PS3 via USB adapters.

  • Blerk #15 5 years ago

    But not for PS3 games.

  • in5ane #16 5 years ago

    "If you plan on picking up a PlayStation 3 anytime soon and are worried about the dent that the system and its peripherals will put in your wallet, you may want to consider picking up some USB adapters for the PS2's Dual Shock 2 controller. These relatively cheap adapters are made for using a Dual Shock 2 on a PC, but they seem to work quite well with every PlayStation 3 game that we've tried."
    [from ]http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/745/74532...

  • Blerk #17 5 years ago

    Oh! Colour me wrong, then. :-)

    If I ever get a PS3 I might have one o' those so that I can have rumble on me old PS2 games, then.

  • Wite_Noiz #18 5 years ago

    Does it really make that much of a difference, though?
    As a form of feedback, I eventually found it pretty pointless (after the initial "wow" when it was first implemented, that is); I've never seen an example where it really represents what's going on in the game ("I've been hit! - Spasm, time!";).

    When I replaced my GC controllers with Wavebirds, I didn't even notice rumble was missing for ages - and I don't miss it.

    Just my coppers.

  • J_C_X #19 5 years ago

    You don't relise what you've got till it's gone. I miss the rumble Motorstorm would be a bit better with it.

  • dllord #20 5 years ago

    "Spaceman" You're not the REAL suffolk ripper are you?

  • chacha #21 5 years ago

    @Wite_Noiz

    Runble makes a huge difference in certain games and the absence of the rumble feature was a massive mistake as it only takes away from the gaming experience, i thought next gen was about taking steps forward not backwards.

    I was playing GranTurismo 2 on my PSP and realised that doing the licence tests with no rumble function just is not as enjoyable or engrossing as with the rumble feature - you never really know when you are too close to the rumble strips or the edge of the track so it really takes away alot from the immersion of the gaming experience.

  • Rambaldi #22 5 years ago

    Rumble is like Widescreen is like HD is like Surround Sound is like Colour: you only miss it when it's gone.
    Edited by Rambaldi at 04/01/07 @ 14:15

  • Scimarad #23 5 years ago

    Well they cut and pasted the rest of the game, why not this?

  • effinwooly #24 5 years ago

    im going to miss rubble i must admitt :o(

  • smelly #25 5 years ago

    >im going to miss rubble i must admitt :o(

    Im not!

    But then im not intending to get a ps3 eitehr :-)

  • davisorle #26 5 years ago

    Post deleted at 20:44:35 16-04-2012

  • brim4brim #27 5 years ago

    Third party controllers maybe?

    I wouldn't rule out Sony releasing a controller with rumble later either.