| TheLastStarFighter said: I'm not a big fan of touch pads on laptops, and I don't think I'd like it on PS4 either. I'd rather just navigate with an analog stick. I would, however, like a small touch screen. It could enhance games and navigating menues. |
In a menu interface like the XMB, yeah the analogs win out and there is no reason the PS4 won't have the ability to navigate with the analogs. They probably want to keep the DS3 compatibile with the console anyway so analog stick navigation must stay. But for the web browser you are going to want that track pad. It will do wonders for that. The alternative would be to buy a mouse but this way everyone has the track pad because it came default with the PS4. A track pad can also remain small on the controller. A touchscreen would signiifcantly increase the size of the controller. Vita is already a touchscreen controller ready for use. Sure with a price cut down to $200 it is still pretty expensive for a controller, but the price will go down even further over the years. The ability to have a touchscreen controller which is also a dedicated gaming handheld is pretty nifty, don't make something like that compete with a hollow streaming controller. Doing that is a far better alternative than to increase the cost of the dedicated controller and thusly the console when Sony will be trying to push hardware power.
Before the PS3 everyone was nice to me :(
