I guess we'll have to see. It's pretty silly how Nintendo doesn't come out and clear this shit up instantly. I mean, it's launching in a little over a month, if it has cool new features people don't know about completely, it's time to talk about it... right? Lol.
They say it has a capacitive touch screen in the big presentation. They're not going to boast about it because as someone said above it creates feature disparity between TV and Handheld mode. It's there because it just kinda has to be. Probably doesn't cost a whole more than not having a touch screen.