Novint Licenses EA Titles for 3D Touch Support Controller

You may have heard of the Novint Falcon controller already. It’s the bizarre-looking gaming controller that users reported could mimic the actual feel of unique textures and objects. The strange device made quite an impression on almost anyone that tried it, but it still seemed like a gimmicky piece of technology that wouldn’t appeal to the gaming community at large. Well, Novint still isn’t giving up on the Falcon, as they’ve reported that they will be licensing several EA titles to make them work with the touch support controller. According to the agreement, Novint will license the games and then develop patches so they work with the controller. Those games will include Madden NFL 08, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08, Need For Speed ProStreet, Battlefield 2, Battlefield 2142, and possibly the next Need For Speed game. To recoup the cost of developing the patches, Novint will also be charging $9.99 for each of them.

To me, this doesn’t change much. The Novint Falcon still seems like a device that is really, really cool, but not something I’d actually buy; $10 fee for patches or not. It’s something I’d want to play around with for a short while, but I couldn’t actually see myself throwing down a lot of money for it. If arcade’s were still thriving, I’d say Novint should probably focus more on getting an arcade game out there with the Falcon built in; but since they’re not, I have no idea what they should do with their incredibly awesome-but-useless technology.

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