Quote: Originally Posted by
SRTie4k 
I could never see myself using any type of touchscreen for gaming. Tactile feedback plays a HUGE rule in the minutae of character/precision control, at least it does for me. If you don't get any feedback from what your hands are doing, you're a lot more likely to lose your orientation more often.
Remember, most true gamers don't look at their controls when they are using them. They navigate by feel, and thats one of the reasons individual keys on a keyboard stand out.
Now if you are using touchscreen to interact with what you are viewing, you are much less likely to lose orientation. But that's not very practical in gaming.
I understand what you're saying... but I'm going to assume you didn't look at the links I posted? It sounds like what you're saying is you're looking for a physical response, like when you press a key on a keyboard, you can feel and hear it... same with a mouse. The Stantum Pmatrix does offer visual feedback. A physical feedback would be much more difficult to obtain for a touch device, but I don't think its far out of the question.
Add textural notches at the top, bottom, left, right and 4 way diagonal as well as one in the center. Throw in the visual feedback and fine tuned software and I think it would have potential. It would be like combining a mouse and the directional keys' function all in one.
