Gamestop got a chance to talk to Phil Harrison, president of SCEA. He told them the primary reason they brought rumble back was because people were asking for it. And that it will come out spring 2008 for Europe and America.

Harrison told GameSpot that the primary reason that the company bought back the Dual Shock rumble controller was that people wanted it. He said, "A lot of people have been asking for it, and now we've done it."

He also explained that there is no learning curve required for developers to implement Dual Shock into PlayStation 3 games, as the system to do so is exactly the same as the one which was used for the PlayStation 2. He told GameSpot, "That's how we were able to retrespectively upgrade." He added that gamers would soon be seeing Dual Shock support for previously released PS3 titles, including Resistence: Fall of Man, and MotorStorm.

As to how the company managed to combine SixAxis and Dual Shock, Harrison admitted it had been tricky. He said, "The two can counter-exist due to some very clever algorithms that filter out the effect of motion sensitivity and part of that is done inside the controller and part of it in the library."

When asked why there was a delay to the US and Europe receiving the new controller--Japan will be getting it in November, whereas the west has to wait till Spring-- Harrison admitted that honestly, he didn't know the reason, but he assured GameSpot that the company is doing all it can to bring the new controller to all regions as quickly as it can.

Sayyed via gamespot.com »