PlayStation Vita

[Jason1]

Until they start making phone with actual buttons, I'll pass on any REAL gaming on a phone. Touch screens suck for gaming. I want a button!

[Ginkasa]

I might get it, but I hardly ever touch my PSP. I'll probably still end up getting it in a few years when the price has dropped and there's a game I must have (not sure what'd it be, though, since Final Fantasy titles were pretty much it for the PSP for me and that franchise is currently making me a sad koala).

[KillerGremlin]

Originally Posted by Jason1

Until they start making phone with actual buttons, I'll pass on any REAL gaming on a phone. Touch screens suck for gaming. I want a button!

I prefer all touch screen or all buttons. I'm not a fan of the mesh of buttons and touch screen...which is what keeps me from really loving some DS games. Either design a game optimized for complete touch interaction, or let me use a dedicated button setup.

The Android phones are sick though. Dual Core processors, lot of memory...and everyone has a phone. You have the full Android market which features a ton of games; and a ton of casual games (which is where the gaming market is really going). Plus your Android device syncs with Facebook, and you can play Facebook games.

I just see the social and casual gaming forces driving gaming towards Android. Why buy a dedicated gaming device? You can even emulate Genesis, SNES, NES, and PSX games on your Android device. I bet you can emulate N64 games too...

It's kind of ironic....Android is like a PC basically...PC killing dedicated handheld gaming...huh.

[Blix]

Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

I prefer all touch screen or all buttons. I'm not a fan of the mesh of buttons and touch screen...which is what keeps me from really loving some DS games.

You're weird.
































...that is all.

[KillerGremlin]

I don't think I am. At all. We are kind of veering in that direction, anyway.

Do you have an Android phone? Or an Iphone? And a good one...one of the recent ones.

There's been some cool tech demos of touch screen interfaces. Microsoft Surface is on the horizon in terms of showing up in homes (that shit has been out since like 2007...we are just now seeing widespread touch screen use). I truly believe Android/Iphones will eventually kill laptops. Eventually home computing will be reduced to a central household server, and your phone, TV...and even your walls or windows...will function as input devices. We are getting near that point with cloud computing.

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Seriously, I enjoyed my DS...but the games that force you to utilize a touch screen and hard controls are just frustrating. I do enjoy the use of the touch screen as an interactive menu. Using the DS touch screen as a menu is a sweet idea. I enjoy using the main screen and standard controls to actually play the game. I dunno.

I'd say we are going to see widespread touch screen implementation within the next 10 to 15 years. You can already sync your phone up to your TV and computer. Pretty soon you will just need a monitor and a cloud server, and you will have a cloud computing system that just talks to your "Computer Screen" or "TV Screen."

It's coming. How will this affect gaming? I dunno. Seems like the big gaming market is casual games like the Facebook games and whatnot. I like Neo's idea of having a controller attachment. There are also on-screen controls for touch-screen devices. The fact is, everyone needs a phone, and the phone markets are saturated with games. It will be interesting to see how that impacts the more niche gaming market.

Edit: I still prefer a controller for 99% of games. You all know that. I'm just saying, this seems to be where the technology is moving. I'm not saying this is my view or this is what I agree with. You can't deny the state of the industry.

[Vampyr]

Touch screens are cool, but I don't think we'll ever go with them 100% for gaming. The tactile feedback from buttons and analog sticks is too important.

[Blix]

I don't own a smart phone yet. But when I get to play games on my friend's phone I can't help but want to use actual buttons. You end up putting your hands in the most weird ways to do what you really want to do, specially if the game uses the movement recognition controls at the same time. This is true when playing games that try to fully realize what consoles already do. There was this airplanes game where you had to tilted the iPhone to move the air plane and tapped a part of the screen to shoot missiles and every time we wanted to shoot something we had to take our hand off the iPhone to tap the screen. Maybe a better button placement would have solved it, I dunno. But so far the games that I have played don't make me believe that touch screens as the only way for input is a good thing. And of course, you're making screen space and input compete, something that shouldn't have to be. On-screen buttons just don't cut it for me. I feel that using touch-screen to complement the actual buttons is the way to go. Of course, this depends mostly on the developers thinking things carefully and the type of game you're playing. But so far, I think developers need to keep improving the ways they implement touch controls into their games.

I'll post more later, if I have the time.

[Neo]

Originally Posted by Jason1

Until they start making phone with actual buttons, I'll pass on any REAL gaming on a phone. Touch screens suck for gaming. I want a button!

I could see them making a controller attachment which fits around your phone. Kind of like your mom fits around my.....

[TheSlyMoogle]

Originally Posted by Neo

I could see them making a controller attachment which fits around your phone. Kind of like your mom fits around my.....

They already exist, at least for iphone, we sell them at gamestop.