Comment on Planning on buying a SteamDeck. What should I know before purchasing?

• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Ah I see. Interesting! I always assumed the steam deck was just providing what high end console controllers were standardizing back there.

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  • noxypaws@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Nope! Both the Xbox Elite and Dualsense Edge controllers don’t add new buttons, they just add buttons that can only be copies of the regular Xbox/Playstation buttons.

    Steam Deck does it better since the four back buttons can be used as completely independent buttons.

    I’ve heard that the 8BitDo Ultimate 2 controller also can use its extra buttons as net new buttons, and I’ve been tempted to get one for that reason (and because I really liked the Ultimate “1” I had before my dog chewed it up!)

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