a touch screen and accelerometer (if device includes everything from rx-51) allows interaction in a different way to old mouse+keyboard indirect interfacing.

I'm not gonna be so worried if we have no dpad on the [***front of the] next device, the menu and desktop ui wont need it and im sure that the accelerometer can be made to control things like doom in a new and better way than ever before.

its just different, not worse.


***i expect a hardware keyboard though and this still needs dpad (ala n97)