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Abysmal rumble intensity (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is anyone else's Deck not rumbling much at all? When it comes to things like using the trackpads, the haptics work as expected for me. But in terms of game rumble, it feels like the haptics motors are dying or something. They rumble ever-so-slightly. Nearly imperceptible. For instance, a game like Hades. When using an external controller, every time I attack, I get a healthy controller rumble. But when playing on the Deck itself, I can really only feel it if I have a finger on one of the touchpads (which is directly over the motors). And even then, it is weaker than what I experience when using the trackpad as a mouse in desktop mode or something. I have tried multiple games, and get the same pitiful rumble in each.

What really confuses me is that I just got a new Deck via RMA, and the rumble experience is exactly the same. Any ideas? Anyone else experience the same?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There's a company called Immersion that owns a lot of patents related to rumble/haptic feedback.

They recently sued Valve saying that the Steam Deck and Valve Index violate their patents and the Valve hasn't paid for a right to use something that infringes on their tech.

If valve didn't pay to license the tech, we can assume that they consider their feedback tech to be different enough from the Immersion patents that it was worth selling without licensing it. The lack of stronger rumble in the deck may be partially an attempt to avoid an additional license fee in a budget priced device.