There were other devices that had touch screens long before the 3DS. PDAs had touch screens in the 90s, maybe earlier.
http://oldcomputers.net/apple-newton.htmlThe Newton is not the first device with a touch-screen and handwriting recognition, though. The Linus Write-Top incorporated both six years earlier in 1987, but the user has to train the Write-Top before it will recognize their handwriting.
Searching a bit more in Google, I've found that touch screens were first developed in the later half of the 1960s.
I'm not saying the DS didn't make touch screen gaming popular, because I know it's the first time I've ever played a game on a touch screen device, even if there were other devices out there that could. But it's the second post someone has made in this thread that implies Nintendo is the inventor of everything and everyone else just copies Nintendo.
I'd say that Nintendo can often be the Apple of the gaming industry, as in they come up with ideas that other companies take and make far better, but then I realized that they still have the best motion gaming.
Apple and Nintendo both buy up other companies or their technologies and then sit back and laugh while the fanboys give them credit for inventing everything.
It looks like a cheap, lazy HK knockoff of a 3rd party PS controller or the world's most unusual ipod. Either way, I call fake 'til I see something more concrete.
Even if it were real, the screen is just dam too small for my taste. If Sony is copying WiiU, I expect the touchscreen to be similarly in size and proportionality to Vita or PSP cause Dreamcast VMU's look bigger than this.
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So the PS4 is being announced tonight, most likely.
At 6pm NY eastern time.
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watch right now! Conference time!