This sounded exciting until I read this:
"This controller would feature a touch sensitive liquid crystal display that would display various button layouts depending on the consoles."
Yuck! It sounds like it'd feel like playing an iPhone.
That does sounds pretty awful. I'm a fan of the CD32 controller design. The build quality left a lot to be desired, but the conceptual design was good.
The same way people have been accidentally tossing their Wii remotes into their TVs, expect to see lots of thumbs puncturing the screen of this thing. Controllers were meant to have their buttons mashed to bits, and games were designed around that tactile responsiveness.
I predict this thing is going to be a mega flop - either absurdly expensive, to be of sufficient quality to not break instantly, or a cheap piece of junk that no one buys.
@ lou_dias
I really, really, don't see this as any sort of evidence of companies raiding Commodore's corpse. If that were so, they'd also logically have to be pillaging Atari, Gravis, Sega, Turbographx, etc. CD32 is represented no differently in that exerpt than any other system.
