I'm a big Sony fan and I find the touch screen controller idea to be pretty awesome/useful as I'm sure many of the Vita owners here would agree as well. While there is no doubt some who may be haters or hypocrites if this comes to be, don't subject your brooded antimosity in this kind of a snide manner. Just ignore those people but at the very least don't transmit their trolling into other threads serving as a generalization to an entire assumed group when no one knows or cares if you are refering to any specific individuals or not.

ok, thanks for the explanation.

So this 2.2 number was just pulled out of someone's arse then?

I don't like the idea of backtouch, I have big hands and they usually gets in the way when playing my vita

Well I thought a little more and have JUST one way to get to that number... add another 256MB module but that's too weird to be true because a never saw a bus interface of 288bits.

9 x  256MB = 2.2GB @ 288bits = 180GB/s bandwidth

This other module can be a similar one or a EDRAM module near the GPU... again that's too unrealistic and hilarious to be true.

The others specs are realistic at least.

They'll give you the option to turn it off I think. Would be dumb not to because I constantly touch the back of my controller when playing PS3.

The touchpad rumor is interesting. I'm not sure how great it would be for most core games, but the idea of interfacing with the OS and PS Store with a mouse type cursor is kind of awesome.

Actually, I wish it would let me hook my Vita to the PS4 and let me control the functions via that. The Vita interface is excellent.

As far as the specs go, I'm not even going to worry about that yet.

That touch screen doesn't have a display though, so cost is probably minimal.

If these specs are for the dev kits(which have more memory than retail) what will the retail specs be?

WiiU tablet touchscreen w/o multitouch =/= capacitive touch pad w/o display.

From the sound of this one it will add little to no additional bulk to the controller, keep the costs low and also allow for multiple touch enabled controllers to be used at a time.

It's not a touchscreen, it's a touchpad, you know like on a Vita and laptop? Completely different from an actual screen on a controller. No one's doing a 180. Sounds like they are getting the trackpad to complement the Dualshock 4 without taking the focus away from ergonomics. Most likely the trackpad feature can be toggled on/off for user preference .