Comment on Some speculation on the Steam Controller and scalpers
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days agoHow 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.
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?
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Never said there’s no difference, just that it’s good enough to navigate the desktop on a couch.
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.