Just in case you need to find it in a hurry later today, here's a link to the quote where Sony Europe's top man Phil Harrison said rumble was a "last generation" feature.
Here's our favourite photo of Phil, along with the no-rumble quote in full:
"We have no plans to do so in the standard controller that ships with PlayStation 3. I believe that the Sixaxis controller offers game designers and developers far more opportunity for future innovation than rumble ever did. Now, rumble I think was the last generation feature; it's not the next-generation feature. I think motion sensitivity is. And we don't see the need to do that." - Phil Harrison, Sony, February 2007.
Here's a photo of Kaz Hirai, as he's the one who drew the short straw of having to find a way of making the re-introduction of a "last generation feature" sound like something new and exciting.
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The guy responsible for the speech script must be shitting himself. Speaking of which...
yrqwc - Are you queuing for the toilet, Mr Sony speech-writer?
"well if Sony uses the new tech then, in a way, they would be right. Rumble as we know it today is last gen but what the new tech offers is sort of the second tier of rumble. Had they planned this from the beginning (as I suspect) then they should've clarified it a bit more."
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If they've done it properly, then the rumble will be able to affect specific parts of the pad; it could rumble on just the left side if you're using your right hand for "something else".
There could even be force feedback in the analogue sticks so they offer resistance in certain situations.
Like Atari did 15 years ago in the Hard Drivin' arcade machine.