2000w/年说起来也不多
当初何苦呢

总额还是不少的
from bloomberg

Sony to Pay Immersion $150.3 Million to Settle Suit (Update3)

By Susan Decker and Jeff St.Onge

March 1 (Bloomberg) -- Sony Corp., the world's second- largest consumer-electronics maker, agreed to pay Immersion Corp. $150.3 million to end a patent dispute over technology used in Sony's PlayStation video-game console.

Immersion, a San Jose, California-based software developer, will get a $97.2 million court judgment, plus royalties totaling at least $53.1 million, Immersion Chief Financial Officer Stephen Ambler said today in an interview. Immersion shares jumped as much as 38 percent in after-hours trading.

``We look forward to exploring with Immersion exciting new ways to bring the largest and best range of gameplay experiences to our customers,'' Kazuo Hirai, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., said in a joint statement.

A jury in Oakland, California, found in September 2004 that Tokyo-based Sony infringed two Immersion patents for so-called haptic technology, used in PlayStation and PlayStation 2 consoles to make game controllers vibrate with the onscreen action. The jury awarded $82 million, which grew to $90.7 million with the judge's addition of interest and costs.

With interest, that figure increased to $97.2 million, Ambler said. Sony also paid about $30.6 million as a compulsory license for the past two years, money which Immersion treated as deferred revenue. Sony will make 12 more quarterly licensing payments totaling $22.5 million through the end of 2009 and may pay other royalties during the period, Ambler said.

No Profits

``We are pleased to have put this litigation behind us,'' Victor Viegas, Immersion's chief executive officer, said in the joint statement.

Ambler said Immersion has paid $25 million in legal fees on the case since filing it in February 2002. The company, which hasn't reported a profit since first selling shares to the public in 1999, had a fourth-quarter net loss of $2 million on sales of $8.6 million.

Shares of Immersion rose as high as $9.87 in after-hours trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market. They earlier closed at $7.23, up 4 percent for the past year and valuing the company at $178 million.

Sony's American depositary receipts, each representing one ordinary share, rose 14 cents to close at $51.87 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. is based in Foster City, California.

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原帖由 mapledot 于 2007-3-2 10:40 发表
这下PS3更没有弱点了。

本来就没弱点
应该说现在更完美了

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原帖由 wxx 于 2007-3-2 13:29 发表


顶

sony今后如果真的把带震动的六轴手柄作为标配的话，很伤害现在已经购买了ps3的用户。

就算国外可以免费更换新手柄，国内的ps3玩家也肯定享受不到。

伤害啥了？
这个算受伤害
当年买第一批ps的人不全都跳楼了？