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Thursday January 4, 2007 11:32 pm
PS3 Steering Wheels Won’t Have Force Feedback. At All.
It’s old news by now that the PS3 controller doesn’t have force feedback built into it - it’s just one of those things that you’ll have to deal with if you decide to go with Sony’s expensive new console. What’s new, breaking news to us is the fact that the PS3 doesn’t even know how to transmit a signal telling ANY controller to vibrate or give force-feedback. And for all you racing fanatics out there, that means that Gran Turismo 5 on the PS3 is going to feel like you’re driving on ice.
Rumors that force feedback for the PS3 isn’t possible started circulating earlier this week on the NeoGAF forums, but just recently 1up.com received confirmation that, indeed, driving on the PS3 just isn’t going to be the same:
All PS3 games are programmed for the SIXAXIS which doesn’t have force feedback, therefore the force feedback in the wheels won’t be recognized.
Yikes. Looks like the Xbox 360 may soon become the console of choice for driving fans.
Update: It looks like, whoever the Sony rep is that gave 1up the above quote, they got something wrong. As seen in the comments, several users have pointed out that NFS:Carbon features force feedback for 3rd-party steering wheels. So perhaps this just means that any steering wheels designed specifically by Sony won’t have force feedback? We’re going to wait for Sony to give some further clarification on this one before we comment any further.
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Why cant it be the Wii that is preferred… dick riding #### site!
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ONE MORE NAIL IN THE COFFIN.
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“Why cant it be the Wii that is preferred… dick riding #### site!”
YEAH RIGHT. WHICH WOULD YOU RATHER PLAY? PROJECT GOTHAM RACING? FORZA 2? OR excite truck? If you picked excite truck you must either be a pre-teen or BLIND and RETARDED.
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“If you picked excite truck you must either be a pre-teen or BLIND and RETARDED.”
or he likes to have fun and doesn’t care about hyper-realism
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I’m sorry guys this is a complete lie, need for speed carbon fully supports the force feedback on the ps3 with the logitech driving force pro (however not the 900 degree turning). GTHD supports the 900 degrees of steering and I bet when the finished product comes out in the form of GT5 it will also have force feedback, it’s a simulator after all and a lot of gran turismo racers have the wheel in their simulation setup. They would be letting down too many of their customers by not implementing this. So I thought I would let you guys know that FF works in NFS:C
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it ludicrous to say that the ps3 will never be able to do that, it’s a simple firmware upgrade
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Remember that Sony is not licensed to use force feedback in it’s controls due to a patent by Immersion. As a result, no sixaxis controls incorporate it. This isn’t due to a calibration issue, or anything else they’d have you believe.
I imagine the same thing is happening with any Sony branded wheels. I’m not sure how aftermarket, third party products would be impacted. However, if the game doesn’t send a force feedback signal to the controller, you’re out of luck.
This article smells of rumor, given it’s sweeping claim, and no specific quotation about wheels themselves.
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Lol, you PS3 fanboys sure are hilarious. SONY is lying to you all the time and you just blindly ignore it
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“or he likes to have fun and doesn’t care about hyper-realism”
Then he’s probably not a “driving fan” as the article states. It says “the console of choice for driving fans.”
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Sony is not licensed to CREATE feedback devices.
I have NfS:Carbon and the wheel works. So… you guys are idiots for not understanding software/hardware yet speaking on it before doing ANY research. Like the rest of the internet.
Go find a moose to hump.
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PS3 already supports Force Feedback with standard Logitech USB Wheels. Is this just an X360 fan jealous he doesn’t have USB support??
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yea this prolly is some jealous xbox fan cause everything works fine with mine. all he gets to enjoy are repetitive FPS
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Yeah right, not having usb support for my wireless wheel is such a drag. Only fps on 360? What an idiot fanboi.
Looks like the only decent game on the pos3 is what….oh yeah a fps….the only difference between a pos3 fanboi and a bag of rocks is a bag of rocks doesn’t make stupid arguments.
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if you guys actually beleive this you are all morons. just cause the controler that came with the console doesnt vibrate doesnt mean that third part controllers wont add it later. You are all so gullable is un believable. And dotn gimem that ” but the system cant transmit the signal crap” gimme a damn break hahaha. you people will beleive anything hahaha.
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um just cause excite truck is the only racing game on the wii its not meant to be a simulator game so comparing it to forza and gt isnt really fair
maybe there wont be FF on the sixaxis but i dont think that gt would be made without FF on the steering wheel cause you kind of need to feel something when your driving especially in something like gt. hopefully they dont dissapoint this is one of the last reasons i want to get a ps3 and the list is slowly getting smaller and smaller
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lolz, Force Feedback or not ,
PS3 is the biggest “next gen” lie that $0ny ever told
have fun playing your “next gen” games on a GPU thats worse than 7800gtx
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How the hell does the sixaxis controller support driving-wheel-force-feedback? If you put it on the floor, will it piviot and rotate based on in-game inputs? If you hold it will it develope perpetual torque around a vertical axis? NO IT WONT.
The ‘force feedback’ in FF wheels has nothing to do with Rumble/Vibration/DualShock2/Imersion/Sixaxis/Non-wheel perepherials, and I am sick of all these articles posting all this gibberish.
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ahhhhh…. with the arguing already. You should be lobbying your ideas w/ the executives at Sony, not wasting effort arguing w/ the myriads of teenagers that hang out at this site. What are they gonna do?
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For all that think that PS3 does not have force feedback should check that movie on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u8HAgOx2-c
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The PS3 does have FFB…new slim PS3 sixaxis has FFB and so does Logitec Driving Force GT. Oh wait this is 2 year old rumor, no wonder it’s wrong! I had a 360, waited until the PS3 came down to $299 to get it for games AND Blu-ray. A Bargain!
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