The Steam Controller 2 Got A New Icon And It Further Confirms The Layout

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• Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Been holding off on buying any new controllers just for this

  Rocking a 10 year old Xbox Elite Controller that’ve I’ve kept going through multiple repairs

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• Pencilnoob@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I seriously hope it’s like the rendering at the bottom of the article with two physical button areas (4 each), two physical joysticks, and two touch pads. That feels like the best of all worlds.

  I want to love the Steam Controller 1 so much but the missing right joystick and the touch pad for the left dpad just feels so bad for so many games that were designed for two joysticks. It’s so hard to get the muscle memory right. I’m always trying to use the left pad as a dpad and tapping it wrong.

  I wish someone could show me what I’m missing but it feels so frustrating

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• AppleTea@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  d-pad d-pad d-pad please…!

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  oh come the fuck on

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  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you look at the 3d render, it has a dpad and the usual abxy buttons. I’m pretty sure the 2d icon is just meant to be recognizable without all the buttons/details.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What do you think the circle on the left is for?

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• SeventySeven@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I hope they stick with the “mini steamdeck layout” like shown in the 3D model pic. I saw a video awhile ago where someone made their own steam controller using spare parts from various Steam Decks, and I always hoped the official would look at least somewhat similar.

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• Chronographs@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I hope they didn’t remove the dpad and a joystick that’d be a dealbreaker for me

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  • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    the removal on the icon was supposedlu just gor icon simplification rather than on the physical product.

    including 2 touchpads already makes the icon fairly recognizable for what controller its trying to convey

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    • Chronographs@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Well it’s irrelevant until they announce the thing anyways

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  • warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I bet they know they can’t do anything other than a Deck with no screen if they don’t want it to fail like the SC1.

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• DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So a steam deck without the screen. I’ll take that.

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And a Steam console to go with it, please.

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    • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      100% agree! I know so many nerds rag on this idea of a steam console “well you can just build a PC and install Bazzite on it”, yeah tell that to those who don’t know anything about building PCs, and just want to buy a console and start playing. So, yeah, a steam console. Give it to me right now.

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• stephen@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Instant buy from me!

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• morgan_423@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Day. One. Purchase.

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• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Eww.

  The touchpad are amazing but do not replace an analog stick or dpad. If this is legit, it is going to be the steam controller 1 all over again where it really is only good for games without xinput gamepad support

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  • warm@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There's literally analog sticks right there?

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  hell yeah!

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• LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I starting to become afraid this controller will be uncomfortable for those trying to use the touchpad as a first class input…

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• D_C@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I loved the first steam controller…but it wasn’t robust.
  My paddle buttons broke within a few hundred hours, I 3d printed a new one and good to go. Then the shoulder buttons stopped working quite quickly, which I fixed. Then the thumbsticks stopped. Then it was something else. Then something else. After about 500 hours of gaming I had given up.

  I thought it was me being too harsh. Bought another one but that -relatively- quickly stopped working. Same issues, paddles, buttons etc etc.

  Got myself a second hand DS4 for £10 and carried on. 1200ish hours of Rocket League later and one shoulder button started to play up. I opened it up, put a mechanical keyboard o ring over the silicone membrane thing under the buttons and carried on playing for thousands more hours. Every now and again I would open it up to clean it etc but that’s all that happened.
  All in all I put nearly 4000 hours in to RL, but only about 900 of them with the steam controller. And they constantly broke. The rest of those hours were with a second hand DS4, with a few O rings to help along the way.

  But I did love those steam controllers. They just felt right in the hand. I just hope the second one is a bit more robust than the first.

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