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fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

How many people do you think really want a steam controller? It costs more than an xbox or ps5 factory controller. TMR isn’t unique to the steam controller, the ps4/5 controllers have a trackpad for basic navigating the desktop on a couch, and you can only use it with steam games. (GN review) For any normal person there’s very little reason to get it over the myriad of other great controllers out there.

Valve themselves even said they’re targeting a niche.

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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Part of it is just a genuine gamble.

You can try to model demand for a kind of thing that has never specifically existed before.

You will probably fuck that up at first.

Early signs point to -> they significantly underestimated demand.

By how much exactly… shrug?

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- fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  there’s basically no way you can find no difference between the trackpads on the Steam Controller, and the trackpad on the PS controllers
  
  Never said there’s no difference, just that it’s good enough to navigate the desktop on a couch.
  
  Does a PS 4/5 allow you to fully remap all the controls of a game to literally whatever you want?
  
  Not natively, but they’re a normal directinput device so there’s plenty of software out there to do it. Plus steam input for steam games.
  
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