> > > I'm not interested in mame on my phone until I have buttons. Why couldn't they > make a > > > decent smart phone with a joystick on one side and like 4 button on the other? > > > > Don't hold your breath. In case you haven't noticed the industry is going > > increasingly button-less over the past several years and that's not a trend that > will > > be reversed anytime soon. You might instead look into external peripherals to do > what > > you're looking for. > > http://shield.nvidia.com/
Nice try, but that's not what I meant. Shield would not replace your phone; and since I posted that, phones have continued on their trend to remove buttons (even Android Jelly Bean now gives device manufacturers the option to remove the haptic "buttons" found on the bottom of most phones).
Shield (and its concept) isn't that great anyway. Products that use the phone as an actual screen (while doubling as a standard screenless controller) without relying on streaming at all are far more interesting, at least to me. Products like this but with a more open ecosystem.