I don't see why you would have to do that.........at all. I don't look down at my Dualshock 3 every two minutes to see what I'm doing, and that thing has tons of buttons. <_<
If the buttons were on the touch screen, and also changing constantly for some reason, then sure. Otherwise, no.
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