I mean, why not bring back the OG Steam Controller aswell? I still use it and it works great, and it is almost creepy how it handles almost the same as the SD.
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wasabi@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
I’ve seen these mockups for a steam controller that is essentially a steam deck without a screen multiple times now and it looks like absolute dogshit. This would be far from “the perfect controller”.
derpgon@programming.dev 1 month ago
Weslee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
When you say looks like shit, are you referring to the appearance of it or the functionality looks shit?
Because I don’t really care what it looks like, I care how useable it is.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
anything looks good in matte black
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
When you say looks like shit, are you referring to the appearance of it or the functionality looks shit?
Probably both. The hand position to use that thing would be an ergonomics nightmare to your wrists
CptEnder@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The steam controller itself is pretty good, especially for like RTSs. But tbh the closest I’ve got to a KB/m is the DS5E. Just so damn expensive.
Squirrel@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
I’ve used my Steam Deck as a controller (via remote play) while sitting at my desktop PC. It is by far my favorite of the various controllers I’ve used.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Yeah, I don’t know why they’d use that image. It’s so lazy and uncreative. That’s not what it’ll look like. They literally just cut the edges of the Deck and shoved them together. I’ve seen better concepts of how it’ll look.
As an owner of a Steam Controller, it’s actually pretty nice. It’s probably the most ergonomic controller out there, though for functionality it hits a different niche than the typical controllers you find everywhere. Its better for some games, particularly ones designed for mouse, but worse for others. I’d bet on the Steam Controller 2 being very ergonomic and adding sticks, as well as the track pads, to be quite possibly the best controller available for every game (excluding keyboard and mouse obviously).
heartsofwar@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Like you said, these are Steam Deck prototypes, not the controller. They made a cheap controller with the same potential profile of the Deck without the screen because it’s cheaper. It was to iterate on the Deck quickly and cheaply. They’d never release a controller like that. They do the same thing for all their products.
They already tried a ton of designs for the Steam Controller to figure out the ergonomics of that. They’ll likely iterate some more with Version 2, but it’s likely to follow the controller design, not the deck design. It has very different considerations since it doesn’t need to contain a screen.
heartsofwar@lemmy.world 1 month ago