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Steam Controller Drops Touchscreen
An anonymous reader writes "Last year Valve announced a new game controller that was trying to innovate on the designs that have been with us for over a decade now. The biggest changes were replacing analog sticks with circular touchpads and plopping a small touchscreen into the middle of the controller. Valve has now revamped their prototype hardware, and the touchscreen is nowhere to be seen. In its place are stop/play buttons (which appear similar to start/select buttons) and a bigger Steam logo button. They've also moved around the directional and ABXY buttons, reverting to a more traditional layout (picture). They'll be demonstrating the latest prototype next week at GDC."
I've only played that emulated, and I didn't find many of the games I tried to be worth playing except Ikaruga. I don't think that a screen in the controller is very helpful because ultimately one is going to be looking at the screen on...well, uh, the screen. It doesn't make sense to me as to why someone would want a screen and then a completely different screen that requires changing the entire field of view, so I deem it useless, especially in a world slam full of 1080p displays that have more than sufficient pixel density to show everything you'd ever need in the game.