Canis lupus
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My problem with the touchpad on the PS4 is that it takes such a massive amount of space on the controller, for something I don't feel has a lot of potential. This is going to be like the sixaxis 2.0. Sony will shove it into everything year 1 and 2, then drop it year 3-7.
I would have paid an extra $20, put a touch screen on there, and give me rudimentary abilities. No, I don't want to play my game on the touch screen. What I want is to check messages quickly on there, friend invites, trophies, friend list, etc. etc.
But alas, we are stuck with this turd.
I don't mean the entire controller, just that garbage in the middle of it.
An lcd screen on the controller would be dumb and expensive if all the screen is gonna be used for is checking trophies messages etc, imagine having to check on that lil lcd as a map or something else in game. The philosophy of the ps4 is immediacy, so if you wanna check out something quick just wake up your console from sleep and its all there within seconds.
The touchpad will be used for non game specific things too like browsing menus, internet, apps etc