Machiavellian said:
Thats the great thing about innovation. When executed correctly, it toally changes how you view a product. Case in point would be the Iphone. I remember when it was first rumored with a touch screen. People were so negative without ever using the device but once it launched and people had a chance to try it, it totally change the way they thought about a mobile phone. |
The difference between an iphone (or any touchscreen smartphone) is that you are always looking at the point of touch. No tactile feedback is necessary. With gaming you are either looking at a totally different screen or in the case of smartphone games, at an image away from the touch screen controls. Touch screen controls just don't work for certain games. For games like farmville it works but playing an FPS or platformer they are a disaster.
IF that is the design, people don't need to use it before making a judgment because we have plenty of use cases to draw from already.
Maybe Nintendo knoiws something the rest of the world's touchscreen manufactures/developers don't and the have found a way to make it work for big screen games. But until they either debunk these images or show that it'll indeed work people being highly skeptical of the viability of the design have plenty of reason to be worried.
