18th April 2011, 8:50 AM
Just keep in mind a lot of this is still rumor mill. The "hardest" stuff is still just that it'll be a new system with HD support. Let's wait until E3 before concluding anything.
I gotta agree with etoven. Touch screens make for terrible standard controllers. I think the only way for it to work would be as a DS style screen in the middle used for specific functions a touch screen can excel at. However, even there it won't work nearly that well for a console. On the DS, both screens are right by each other, you can look at both well enough. On the TV? Moving your head to look up and down all the time would quickly grow tiresome. It worked well enough for Four Sword Adventure, but there are some limits, and there it worked likely because the action moved with you from main screen to GBA screen.
I gotta agree with etoven. Touch screens make for terrible standard controllers. I think the only way for it to work would be as a DS style screen in the middle used for specific functions a touch screen can excel at. However, even there it won't work nearly that well for a console. On the DS, both screens are right by each other, you can look at both well enough. On the TV? Moving your head to look up and down all the time would quickly grow tiresome. It worked well enough for Four Sword Adventure, but there are some limits, and there it worked likely because the action moved with you from main screen to GBA screen.
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