{"id":32333,"date":"2012-02-10T15:06:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T13:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=32333"},"modified":"2012-02-10T15:10:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T13:10:19","slug":"rumour-control-nextbox-covets-wii-us-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/32333-rumour-control-nextbox-covets-wii-us-controller","title":{"rendered":"Rumour control: Nextbox covets Wii U&#8217;s controller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wouldn&#8217;t be a proper news day without some <em>Hot! New!<\/em> rumour about the next generation of consoles, so here it is.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report in Xbox World Magazine, the next Xbox will feature a touchscreen controller, much like the <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19914-Nintendo-Wii-U\">Wii U<\/a>, as well as &#8220;augmented reality, directional sound, and a four-player, finger-tracking <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19894-Kinect\">Kinect<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The controller is described as &#8220;an HD screen surrounded by the traditional 360 buttons and sticks,&#8221; which sounds like the perfect controller for playing shooters. Sorry, no I mean the worst controller.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That touchcreen will be second only to Kinect in how you operate your console,&#8221; claims the article, sending tremors of terror throughout the gaming world. &#8220;It could be a remote control when you&#8217;re watching TV, a browser when you&#8217;re on the internet, extra buttons and information when you&#8217;re playing a game or a portable display when you want to take your game with you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The pricetag is also put at \u00a3399, or about R5000.<\/p>\n<p>Please let none of this be true.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/335369\/xbox-720-has-wii-u-touchscreen-controller-report\/?cid=OTC-RSS&amp;attr=CVG-General-RSS\" target=\"_blank\">CVG<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;New rumour here&#8221;, claims industry source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":31379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[31,791,2336,773,1399],"class_list":["post-32333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-next-gen","tag-nextbox","tag-rumour","tag-wii-u"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32336,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32333\/revisions\/32336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}