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Editorials 
Touch-Screen Controller?
- By Lander
Clinton
A new rumor floating around the internet is that Nintendo's Revolution (from here on out called NRev) will use a touch-screen controller that will allow developers to map buttons where ever they want on the controller.
One problem- modern touch-screens can only account for one point at a time. Why? Because they take the average of all the pressure on the screen and make the dot there. Go ahead and try it out with your DS. Enter pictochat and press on the left and right of the screen, the dot will be in the center. Push harder on the left and the dot will move left. The average of all the pressure is one point, no matter if you're pressing it in five places.
This is okay for a system that uses a stylus, but imagine if the NRev's controller is shaped like a GCN one, just that it has screens on the left and right for your thumbs. How would you hit two "buttons" at once? A game like Soul Calibur would need to limit its moves to one button presses or combos of one button after another at a time. Granted, it's hard to hit the B and X together on the GCN controller anyway, and Soul Calibur 2 used moves with both of those buttons, but with current technology it would be IMPOSSIBLE to get the cursor on two places at once on a touch-screen. I hate how I wrote that last sentence but I don't feel like fixing it.
Imagine how much a second controller would cost, too. Throw in that it's probably a rechargeable wireless controller and you've got an expensive way to impress your friend.
If Nintendo makes touch-screen controllers for NRev, here's hoping they include a small touch-panel for the Select button...
Agree with what I'm saying? Disagree? Let us know your thoughts on this issue in our mail bag. The views of Lander Clinton are not necessarily the views of NGenres.com or its affiliates.
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