Kujyou's McMath Tech Corner

In a recent interview, Sony said that they are not giving the DualShock 4 a touchscreen, the producer said that the cost was one of the main reasons why they scrapped the touchscreen. The reason why the developers didn't want a touchscreen was because they thought that looking down on the screen and back to the big screen was a hassle. Sony wanted the people who bought the ps4 to stay focus on the main screen, rather than looking back and forth. Personally, I think that the touchscreen was a neat idea, but I would rather stay focus on the main screen. When playing fighter games on the console, you need to pay a lot of attention to the screen so that you can either block their attack or tell what they are doing so you can counter attack. This goes for shooter games as well, I would not look down on my controller too much during this time either because shooter games require you to look around your surrounding for clues in where the enemy is, so looking back and forth in this situation would not be a good thing. Also, I think that Sony isn't really fit for a touchscreen, they are the type of company which sells well with games like shooters and fighters. I think that the reason why the Wii U touchscreen was a bit better is that they were trying to make it more like a game where the whole family can play. Having the whole family playing with a touchscreen would be fun but using touchscreen for shooters and fighters would be different.

Sony tried many different ideas in making the DualShock 4, many prototypes for this controller used the ideas of the touchscreen of the Wii U where the analog sticks were on the top of the controller. They also tried making it look like an Xbox controller where the one of the analog sticks would  be on top of the D-pad. They tried making it look similar like that because the developers knew that most people preferred the Xbox 360 for shooters so they thought maybe the analog sticks had something to do with it. Many prototypes were made, from having touch screens and no buttons to other kind of variations, about 20 prototypes were made.

Personally, I think that not having a touchscreen for the DualShock 4 is a good idea because Sony spends a lot of time on the graphics on the games and if the touchscreen could potentially lessen the focus of people looking at it which would give less incentive for the developers in making something with great graphics. Also, I usually focus on the screen and rarely look at my controller in general, so I don't think the touch screen would not be that big of a change. I know that some people want the touch screen but in this scenario I wouldn't really care. I think that the DualShock 4 controller is fine the way it is, but I don't know what other people think as I don't know why people prefer the Xbox 360 for gaming, maybe there is a reason I don't know. Maybe it's just that I am used to a Sony controller. I guess we will see what happens when they release it.



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