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• Joelk111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Why could a phone controller not have innovations such as those? You mentioned track pads yourself.

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Because phones already have touchpads on the screen. And games you would play on a phone would be optimized accordingly.

    I suppose it’s not impossible, I’m just not sure there is any useful innovation to be had in that area.

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    • Joelk111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The SteamDeck also has a touchscreen. If you’re using your phone to stream games from your PC, I’d imagine that track pads would be much better, similar to with the SteamDeck.

      I personally have no use for playing games on my phone with a controller, that’s why I bought a SteamDeck, but there could definitely be room for innovation, both in hardware and software, especially if you take streaming into account. A good steam-input supported controller could turn your phone into a killer game-streaming machine.

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      • artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The SteamDeck also has a touchscreen.

        The Steam Deck has touchpads because many games are optimized for keyboard and mouse, not touchscreens. Phone games are not.

        Not saying you’re wrong, just that there’s not a lot of value to be added there, in my opinion.

        especially if you take streaming into account

        I suppose that’s a fair point.

        The other consideration is that if you need those things, you can just connect a Steam Controller, and get one of those cheap phone mounts to attach to it. No need for a new product.

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Why could a phone controller not have innovations such as those?

    OP didn’t ask for additional innovations, OP asked for “the same functionality as the Steam Controller” which the slot-in things + the phone’s touch screen already provide.

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    • Joelk111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I mean, no phone controller has the same layout as the steam controller. If Valve could implement the software to support steaminput when streaming games to a phone from your PC or a cloud PC, that’d be kinda cool.

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      • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I mean, no phone controller has the same layout as the steam controller.

        100% exactly the same layout is impossible, when there has to be room for the phone cradle in the middle. If you want to clip the phone above the Steam Controller, just get one of those plastic holders where you can attach the regular Steam Controller at the bottom side.

        If Valve could implement the software to support steaminput when streaming games to a phone from your PC or a cloud PC, that’d be kinda cool.

        Steam Link already exists and Steam Input runs on the PC.

        a controller with feature parity with the Steam Controller would be an innovation.

        The phone’s touch screen already provides the touch pad functionality when using one of the controllers pictured above.

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