mutantsushi said:
Except that the touchpad is nearly identical to PC laptop touchpads, so games can be designed for mouse w/ touchpad as backup on PC, and directly translate to a PS4 game with every player ensured to have at least a touchpad, with full mouse/keyboard support like PS3. Merely supporting mouse/keyboard doesn't ensure that all players will have that, thus a backup input method is needed, with touchpad, it is basically in the same position as PC laptop touchpads, and even if not AS optimal as a mouse, it's sufficient to allow games to be designed around an imput method where mouse/keyboard takes prime spot. |
3rd party multiplat games will not be using this in any meaningfull way, i think it will begin and end with map navigation, even then in AC4 its still better to use analog sticks to navigate the map. ( I hope its because they just did a lazy job of it)
NO ONE is going to make a mouse based game where you use this touch pad instead, it would be awful.
But none of it matters its a bit of fun and most importantly its super cheap for Sony, its not a $100-200 add on thats bloating the price of the console.
