QUOTE(jananan @ Oct 20 2010, 07:45 AM)
Multitouch is just an extra gesture that can be used for gaming. it has certainly not revolutionized gaming.
Consoles / Handheld Consoles and the humble PC have revolutionized gaming.
take for example, the Nintendo Wii, the wireless motion sensing controller is just a new interface for gaming, nothing revolutionary.
Nintendo has been making consoles and games for ages...
Joysticks were revolutionary. The mouse was revolutionary. Touch screen was revolutionary.
Multitouch is just an added advantage when playing games on touch based interface.
Multi-touch can be implemented on Resistive screen too right?
Actually, I don't find capacitive screen great; except current it's supporting multi-touch very well.
In terms of sensitivity; I think N900's resistive screen is sensitivity is just nice. I've tried iPod/iPhone capacitive, it's was too sensitive; I think there should be a balance, it's should be sensitive enough but not too sensitive.
Next, about pressure sensitivity, resistive has some kind of pressure sensitivity; This is beneficial especially for PAINT/SKETC/HDRAWING programs, and also with the support of stylus and accuracy, we can use it to draw fine arts, which is not possible with capacitive.
With accuracy and ability to use finger-nails or stylus, we don't need to always zoom in to click on links; I browse Desktop version of FB page, I don't zoom in at all, I can use my finger-nails to click on links or use stylus. For capacitive, most of the time you will need to keep pinch-to-zoom especially for those links nearby, later click the wrong link. That's one reason why pinch-to-zoom is very important to capacitive screen, they can't touch accurately, must always zoom in.
For me, the advantages of resistive is more than capacitive; For work, resistive is better, but for gaming which requires multi-touch, capacitive will be better (but not all games, there games which require you to touch accurately; these games have to be optimize for touch unless the screen is BIG like iPad).
Don't get me wrong, I like multi-touch; I don't actually care about which screen technology, but touch accuracy, pressure sensitivity and the ability to use any objects (finger-nails, pen, stylus, etc) to touch is important for a touch device; It's called a touch device, it didn't say for hand/finger only.