well, one of the worst case scenarios for cafe has been confirmed to not be the case.  Good

I would think the main use for the touch screen would be easy text chatting with your friends online. And I think that would be absolutely brilliant. As it is now you have to either send voice messages like many do on XboxLive or you have to write text with your PS Dual Shock controller which is extremely slow and annoying.

wait a sec is this a home console or a portable ?

Keypads are available.

You mean like the touchless gamepads we have now? omg the horror!

I knew someone would say that. But the point is that the touch screen would be available for everyone. If I get a key pad for my PS360 and keep spamming text messages to my friends I still wont get many quick or extensive replies like I get on the messageboards here on VGC or any PC chat because my friends on PS360 most likely are struggling writing text on their regular controllers. There's absolutely no dialogue of substance between members on PSN or Xbox Live as of now (Xbox Live is debatable since voice messaging is quite big there).

That's because easy replies aren't standard, not that touchpads aren't standard.

I feel relieved by this news. I find touchscreens too imprecise to replace analog sticks and having all the buttons fitted into such small space (a 6" screen seems small even to fit the buttons that the wiimote and nunchuk have).

Now that one enigma is resolved, there are still a lot of them: what will the screen be used for? Which res? The images will be processed by the console or the controller itself?

E3 can't come soon enough.

How about will there be a screen at all?

All the rumors suggest that there will be one, so like it or not, it seems that there will be one.

Personally I still don't have an opinion. When Nintendo explains how and what it'll be used for, then I'll decide if I like it or not.