CrappyMike wrote:where is the need for a touch screen controller? or indeed any kind of screen on a controller?
Back on Gamecube, a few games allowed you to connect you to connect a GBA and use it as a controller. I only remember having Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles and Zelda: Four Swords.
Basically those were two of my all time favourite multiplayer experiences. Playing games with four people in the same room is always ace. But Four Swords was a new level of fun and constant trolling each other (you could kill each other and knock each other down holes and shit). Anyway, the screen in the controller was used in Four Swords as a screen for when you went in buildings so you didn't affect the view that other players had. Worked really really nicely. I'm pretty sure on the FF game it was used mainly for controlling your inventory without disrupting the game screen, both games were all players on the same screen, and the second screen of the GBA kept those games fun.
And those were almost experimental uses, I'm sure as long as everyone doesn't feel the need to push them as a main feature of games; rather just a new facility to keep games fun. They'll really work.
Anyway, my main PC is-
