Like I said, if my thumb wouldn't drift I would have no issue at all. I play by feel, and a smooth buttonless surface screws me up very seriously.
I do like at times to do what you said. I picked up a mini-hdmi to hdmi cable I can tap my shield tablet into, then using a bluetooth game pad I can fire up any nice game on my 32" LED TV and it looks fantastic. Or like you said, plug it into the sound system as I have a pair of 2.1 systems with a sub that really sound fantastic as I recently found a brand new this years model one at a goodwill so that's on my PC now and a few years back altec sits at my chair for Gameboy/DS use.
