Sony ordered to stop selling PlayStations
March 28, 2005 
Sony is appealing a court ruling that ordered it to stop selling PlayStations and pay $90 million in damages to Immersion Corp.
Sony Ordered to Halt PlayStation Sales:
This is a major court ruling. Its hard to think of a similar situation where a gaming company has been court ordered to stop selling their game consoles. Not to mention the 47 video game titles, which are included in the order.Sony Corp. said on Monday it was ordered by a U.S. court to halt sales of its blockbuster PlayStation consoles in the United States and pay $90 million in damages to a California tech company, Immersion Corp. , whose shares jumped more then 5 percent. […]
For the time being, Sony will keep selling PlayStations as the order — which covers the PlayStation and PlayStation 2, two game controllers and 47 software titles — will not go into effect before the appeal, an SCE spokeswoman said. Sony will be paying compulsory license fees to Immersion, she added.
It seems that the issue will likely be settled with millions of dollars in compensation being paid out by Sony, all because of the vibrating controller feature. This is interesting because Nintendo’s Gamecube controllers have a similar feature. Maybe they operate differently or something.
It isn’t likely any information on how exactly this vibrating technology was allegedly copied in the first place from Immersion Corp., since they will get paid if the court ruling is upheld and will likely agree not to discuss the issue any further.
