Ok, so your argument is based off that the controllers "looked" done and that Sony said they were working on it for awhile?
1. Did you see that guy try to demo the controller?
2. It is existing technology in controller form. Wouldn't be that hard to make a prototype or to incorporate it. How hard was it for Sony to "independently" develop the rumble feature?
3. Why didn't Sony developers know about said controller till E3? Don't tell me they were just being secretive. Unless they didn't want their first wave of games to suport it.
Personally, I think Sony has had a bunch of crazy things under development for the future, as do Nintendo and MS. But I don't think Sony intended to add said feature to their controller till they got wind of what Nintendo was doing (which is likely to have happened well before nintendo released the news to the general public).
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Reason I think they added it to their controller after they heard what Ninty was doing is because of the lack of a rumble feature...while the Wii has not one but two rumbles, one in each controller (in the nunchaku config).
"But ours doesn't require external components outside the controller to work."
"Yeah, but it's got no rumble and Ninty's does."
I mean, really, two steps forward one step back.
I don't have any real hate on for any of the console or computer devs, I'm even pretty non-commital in the Console vs. PC debates. I lean a little bit more heavily toward Nintendo and PC than others, but that's just because I fancy the games I get on those platforms, I have no problem admitting that Microsoft and Sony put out good stuff too, just not as much for my particular tastes and dollar.