New sources state "tablet" like controller for next Xbox

Xbox World has published new rumors about Microsoft’s new home console in its March 2012 issue.

Tucked away on a random page is a report that the system will feature a tablet-inspired controller with an HD screen. It will supposedly be touch-enabled, which makes it sound quite similar to what Nintendo has created with Wii U. However, unlike Nintendo’s new console controller, Xbox World sources say that Microsoft’s tablet has “a shape closer to Sony’s sleek Vita handheld / Apple’s iPad than Wii U’s bulky unit”.

The magazine also claims that the controller will include “extra buttons and information when playing a game or a portable display when you want to take your game with you.”

Xbox World’s full report can be read below.

“The next Xbox will be a matt-black media hub with a mission to bring games to life in your living room with augmented reality, directional sound, and a four-player finger-tracking Kinect. We told you all that last month. This month, our sources tell us it will have a touchscreen, too.

“Microsoft are experimenting with a tablet-like controller with a shape closer to Sony’s sleek Vita handheld / Apple’s iPad than Wii U’s bulky unit – it’s an HD screen surrounded by the traditional 360 buttons and sticks.

“On 360 that touchscreen will be second only to Kinect in how you operate your console. It could be a remote control when you’re watching TV, a browser when you’re on the internet, extra buttons and information when playing a game or a portable display when you want to take your game with you.

“If the next Xbox is starting to sound awfully expensive, you’d be right. 360 launched at £279 while PS3 launched at £425, so – we’re speculating here – £399 wouldn’t be an unprecedented figure to put on a machine with Kinect and a touch controller in the box. Microsoft are playing safe with the CPU and GPU but running wild with the functions that will change how you play, but it won’t be cheap. Expect to see the next Xbox at E3 this June.”

this would certainly put me off as i have tried many touch screen only games and despise them. physical buttons are a must so as long as the touch screen is in addition to normal buttons and sticks then should be fine.

^ ^ this. Once again, another article that shows MS are heading further and further away from the consumer that helped out them where they are now.....

Come back SEGA. We need you.

if this is to be the case i am sorry to say i wont be buying one of these anytime soon
tablet inspired controller rollocks to that.i need to press buttons that is my manly right lol

Pais wrote:Come back SEGA. We need you.

Pais wrote:Come back SEGA. We need you.

That is all