PSP successor may have touch controls
Just like everything e꧟lse you hold in your hands tꦚhese days
It seems like it was only yesterday when Nintendo revealed the DS handheld for the first time. There he was, Reggie Fils-Aime, up on stage unveiling the fac꧋t that the DS would rely on touch-screen controls. No one knew what to make of it. Many in the audience moaned in disinterest. But a few years - and several million DS units - later, it seems like the must-have feature in handheld devices.
So it wouldn't surprise us at all if the all-but-confirmed PSP2 had some sort of touch interface. Right, Sony Computer Entertainment executive VP Kaz Hirai?
"Depending on the game, there are ones where you can play perfectly well with a touchꦫ panel," said Hirai in a recent interview in response to a question about what kind of controls the PSꦦP's successor would have.
Of course, without missing a beat, Hirai also added in one of Sony's biggest calling cards these days: "You can definitely play immersive games better with physical buttons and pads." That has become a main talking point of the PlayStation people ever since 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft has tried to make consumers believe Kinect - a totally button-less experience - i🦩s the way to go.
Hirai didn't necessarily con♒firm that a PSP2 was in the works, but to speculate about its control scheme would seem fu♋tile if there wasn't such a project going on behind-the-scenes.
He also said little about the "PlayStation phone," sp꧟eaking only intheoretical terms regardingrumors. "We have to come up with a message that users will understand. It would have to be a product that keeps the PlayStation's strengths intact," commented Hirai.
It looks as if there is going to be a PSP2 and a PlayStation phone - two𝄹 separate products. The only thing that's still unclear is when, for crying out loud, any of t✃his stuff will actually be "officially" revealed.
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Dec 23, 2010