"But I imagine controllers are a lot younger and don't remember the success she had.
I can't imagine a controller giving some poor person a farewell letter to deliver to Alistair.
Personally, I can't imagine using a controller where all the buttons are on the back; I have enough trouble keeping the top and bottom trigger buttons on controllers separated in my head without the whole ABXY combo spread out back there.
For youngsters who don't remember the original PlayStation controller, imagine trying to perform open-heart surgery using a rusty spoon and a chopstick.
Imagine putting the controller at your feet, teeing up a golf ball on the tablet screen, and swinging a perfect approach shot into the TV in front of you.
Ethan works, as ever, for the I.M.F.: the Impossible Mission Force, not the International Monetary Fund, though it's easy to imagine Christine Lagarde as his controller, immaculate in pearls, calmly instructing him to break into Greece and steal back the German cash.
So goes the chorus issued longingly through what sounds like a 50s Shure Brothers microphone, the kind that one would imagine old air traffic controllers used.
You can switch the octave, but it's awkward, and I can't imagine anyone wanting a MIDI controller that you play like a guitar, even a guitarist like me.
Never mind the fact that they didn't know if he was drunk, or if his car was stolen, or if he was fleeing the scene of some heinous crime the dude pulled off a stunt most people could only imagine trying on an Xbox controller, and he did it like a goddamn pro.
Given the button layout on the Touch controllers, I'd imagine the older titles will still be playable, but their lack of motion control is going to make them feel distinctly last-gen, and all of a sudden developers are going to be focusing all of their resources on building titles for Touch, leaving all of those Touch-less pesky pre-orderers out of the loop.
