Perhaps it won't add much to PC gaming, but to console gaming it could do very well I imagen. Like in Mario Kart: you could have your map down on it, or a rearviewmirror... In zelda you could use it to detect hidden doors, or something like that. In Luigis mansion it could be used to see invisible ghosts...

Wouldn't surprise me if it was the other way round. Geek watches Star Trek, geek creates Star Trek-style tech, geek inherits the Earth...

or something like that.

I doubt it. Maybe one with a small touch screen, but I doubt they'll go for a whole tablet. I suspect they'll go the Remote play route and expand on what Sony have done with PSP (and now Vita) to apply to more devices. Windows Phones for X-box, tablets and Vitas for PS. 

And people use their laptops at home too, doesn't change that people buy them as general purpose portable devices. Of the 3 million people who bought the new iPad, I doubt many would have core gaming as their primary pupose.

Never said MS or Sony should make the PS4/720 a tablet...I said they should do what Nintendo is doing and release a tablet controller.

or just use the standard 360 controller but have more and better exclusives... total sales of 50 million and tons of software sales... all they really need to do is give us a new console with better graphics longer and more games.

If you honestly believe that this

isn't "broken" for most people, then you're clearly in the minority of the population. Two analogue sticks, two analogue shoulder buttons, two digital shoulder buttons, six fave digital buttons, a digital D-pad, and the sticks can each be pressed to act as additional digital buttons. Performing routine actions in a videogame with one of these can take new players (and occasionally veteran ones) a lot of adjustment time. It is no coincidence that elongated and forced tutorials become more common as generations continue. Performing precise, complex actions can be extremely difficult for all but the most experienced gamers, to the point where the game must make allowances for the clumsiness of the controller. Think of auto-aim for the most basic and common example. And of course performing super-precise actions are essentially impossible on this thing. No bowling or tennis game is ever going to replicate how I perform in reality.

As someone who's put in his time with the current controller, these may be moot issues to you. You've long since adjusted, to the point where you don't even have to think about what you're doing anymore. But that's not true for most folks. And if videogames wants to expand its audience (it really should), then this will not "work just fine."

Maybe. Tablets are getting more popular every year, and were still some time away from M$ and Sony's next gen consoles so they will only get more popular by then. But would people really want a tab as controller for their home consoles?
The Wii U has tablet controller, it has buttons and is, emphasis, a controller; I'm sure people don't really think it's the same as a Galaxy Tab or iPad.

Why does the industry need to continue expanding? There are already hundreds of millions of people playing video games and the influx of new gamers are mostly playing casual games. Many studios have learned to cater to the audience that have adapted to this controller design. These studios are creating core experiences that haven't benefited from the current crop of motion and touch controllers as far as I can see. I can understand how the current controllers are an obsticle to new players but as I said, hundreds of millions of peopl ehave gotten by until now. You know, as I was reading how "super-precise actions are essentially impossible" I remembered the time I got the platinum trophy on TimeSplitters: Future Perfect's sniping challenge with maximum aim sensitivity. I've never encountered any motion controller that was anywhere near as accurate as proper joystick controls and both are a joke compared to a mouse. Just my two cents.

PS. I'm selfish so the current controllers aren't broken to me and that's all that really matters :P

There's the financial reason, for starters. Games are becoming increasingly expensive to make, distribute, and market, and those costs are already high enough to drive great numbers of developers and publishers out of business. Growth of the marketplace is the easiest way to counter this trend. In other words, it's basically grow, change, or die.

I also think we're in danger of stagnation if we don't attempt to expand beyond the relatively narrow niche we're currently in. This chain of thought would take more time to develop than I have to devote to it right now, but in a nutshell the byline is similar to the financial argument: what doesn't grow, eventually dies.

But I can appreciate your final sentiment. I'm not being sarcastic or joking when I say that I admire your honesty. I strongly disagree with you on this point, but I appreciate that we can be forthright about where we stand.

No just no. I hope they don't jump on the bandwagon. Just cause the apple sheeple can't stop buying these abominations ever year doesn't mean core gamers need to get this shoved down our throats. I respect your opinion but I hope this never sees the light of day.