Agreed. I haven't given a second thought to it's absence in my PS3 controllers, even when playing rumble heavy PS2 and PSX games on it. Rumble was never more than a novelty if you ask me. If they include it in future versions of the controller then it doesn't bother me, but it was never a necessity. Having the actual potential motion control offered instead of rumble (in the one or the other situation) was always the better deal in my eyes.