Rumble pack lawsuits cost Sony more than $152 million

Immersion recently announced to the press that its operating income for the first quarter of this year was US$ 131 million. Immersion notes that this was driven largely by “profit” from litigation conclusions in their recent patent litigations with Sony Computer Entertainment in the amount of US$ 134.6 million.

Immersion’s regular business revenues amounted to a comparatively small, US$ 6.0 million.

Immersion announced that so far, it has received from Sony Computer Entertainment US$ 119.9 million as a result of the conclusion of the patent infringement suit, and is expecting to gain an addition US$ 29.9 million as revenue and US$ 2.3 million as interest income. (All that, related to the litigation.)

Ultimately Immersion sees that they will receive at least US$ 152.2 million from Sony.

While Sony currently does not offer the “rumble” feature in the SIXAXIS controller that comes with the PS3, it has been reported that they may be working with Immersion to bring back the “rumble” in upcoming controllers for their PlayStation 3 console.

Immersion recently announced to the press that its operating income for the first quarter of this year was US$ 131 million. Immersion notes that this was driven largely by “profit” from litigation conclusions in their recent patent litigations with Sony Computer Entertainment in the amount of US$ 134.6 million.

Immersion’s regular business revenues amounted to a comparatively small, US$ 6.0 million.

Immersion announced that so far, it has received from Sony Computer Entertainment US$ 119.9 million as a result of the conclusion of the patent infringement suit, and is expecting to gain an addition US$ 29.9 million as revenue and US$ 2.3 million as interest income. (All that, related to the litigation.)

Ultimately Immersion sees that they will receive at least US$ 152.2 million from Sony.

While Sony currently does not offer the “rumble” feature in the SIXAXIS controller that comes with the PS3, it has been reported that they may be working with Immersion to bring back the “rumble” in upcoming controllers for their PlayStation 3 console.