Got my Steam Controller guys! Ain't she a beaut 🤩

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• cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I still got this one in a drawer. I just wasn’t big on the primary touch pads with only one joystick.

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  • lordnikon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I loved mine but the 2026 steam controller is superior In every way.

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    • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah I plan to get one at some point. So over messing with Xbox controller drivers and other BS on Linux.

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    • KiwiTB@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Except it didn’t look like an owl. Original Steam controller 1, new Steam controller 86.

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    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh my god, I just googled this. It looks like the price was decided by Lucille Bluth.

      Hours much can our controller cost, Michael? $100?

      Meanwhile, 8bitdo has amazing controllers for a quarter that price.

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    • tyler@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What makes it better? I kinda ignored the new one because the old one was so below expectations

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  • Soapbox@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I loved mine. I used it until it died. Took a bit to get used to it. But when it died on me it took even longer to get used to a regular controller again.

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  • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I bought it shortly after launch, excited for it. Then the amount of configuration to use it, suuuuucked. I’ve tried to love it. I get it out every couple years to try again, and remind myself again that it sucks.

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  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I also have one and I hate it.

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• X@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Still got mine! Once I adapted to touchpad buttons, I loved how it could be customized. Crazy cool controller.

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  • Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I love mine. I need to pickup a 4th.

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    • CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I ended up with 4 of these as well as Steam links from their clearance sale forever ago. Only 1 has a broken bumper button from overuse but they are all still fine otherwise. Can’t wait to get my controller 2 availability email.

      Nice username btw.

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    • X@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, me too, now that I think about it.

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  • jonne@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I still have mine too, but I never played too much with it because I just can’t do the ‘play on the couch’ thing or whatever. I was always a keyboard+mouse person. Playing on the steam deck does work for me somehow tho.

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    • X@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Makes sense. I’m a console gamer for much the same reason: I first started playing when my Dad let me play on his A2600. Must’ve been around 7 years old or so.

      That said, I’ve certainly played k&m for a few years when I played WoW. There was a bit of a difference for me when I had to reach farther for an Fn key or the like, so in that sense controllers just have a slight edge over k&m.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I also have a pair of underused Steam Controllers, and a Steam Link to go with them. Turns out I just don’t care about gaming on my TV.

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• Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Found mine ages ago in a CEX in London. It was on display and cought my eye while walking past it.

  I went in and asked the staff for the Steam controller and they had no idea what I was talking about. Had to go outside with them to show it. They had no idea they had it :D

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• tacosanonymous@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Still use it with my physical steam link and my steam deck, mostly to setup game nights of jackbox.

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• Davel23@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I got one during the closeout, I think it was $15 with a copy of Hollow Knight. But once I got it I started figuring, if I spent the time to get used to it then when it someday broke I'd be SOL on a replacement. So I stuck it on a shelf where it sits to this day.

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  • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s worth a lot more than $15 to other people, especially if it’s an unused one.

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• professor_prime@lemmychan.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I still have mine in the box. I dunno, it’s just a collector’s item to me now. Got it for $5 when they were pretty much giving them away.

  I use a Gamesir instead.

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  • cm0002@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same, got it on the fire sale, tossed it in storage and then forgot about it after a few moves. Found it a bit ago looking for something else lmao

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• Azzu@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No real idea if it is “a beaut”, you haven’t shown the controller, only a marketing image.

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  • moondoggie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ceci n’est pas une steam controller.

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  • gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    ThatsTheJoke.gif

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  • diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Printed on a cardboard box

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• dukeofdummies@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Still have mine, love the concave touchpads.

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• Atomic@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Congratulations. I’ve had mine since the launched. Love it. Find what works for you. But i always put the left trackpad as my joystick, and the joystick as a dpad

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• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m surprised Xbox never sued them for the button layout.

  Not terrible to use the same letter but the colours being the same is pretty blatant copying.

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  • MoogMuskie@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Xbox does not have any unique rights to the ABXY button layout nor the green, red, blue, yellow of them, so anyone is free to do what they like with those buttons and Xbox has no right to sue them. This is unlike PlayStation, who have given themselves rights over the Cross, Circle, Square, Triangle buttons.

    I don’t know why, exactly. Nintendo used ABXY before Xbox did. My guess would be that Nintendo couldn’t simply copyright letters, so Xbox was able to freely copy it.

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nintendo’s buttons are arranged differently than Xbox. From left to right, top to bottom, Xbox goes XY AB, Nintendo goes YX BA.

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  • gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why would they? They’d be sued by Nintendo if they tried (they had those symbols and colours long before Xbox did)

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• dewritoninja@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wanted to buy one when it came out and only 1 store had it in my country and it was like 100 bucks, prohibitively expensive in Ecuador

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• venus@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I hate this low effort repost bot

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  • cm0002@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wut LMAO this is OC lolol

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    • Zoop@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I definitely thought you were just doing your anti-.ml re-sharing thing, too, until I saw your replies to the comments, lol!

      You’re so obviously not a repost bot, though. & I really dig and appreciate the reasoning behind your sharing to a variety of other instances :) Some people just like to complain, haha

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• Fmstrat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Skip it.

  Gamesir G7 Pro 8K instead.

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  • auzy1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m looking for something with touchpad. Thats the distinction

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    • Fmstrat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yea, that makes sense. For those who aren’t though, the TMR sticks on the 8k and mechanical buttons are near perfect.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Gamesir G7 Pro 8K

    i mean my G3S is still going strong so i’m covered, but like they made a sturdy controller. I just have to reset it after marathon sessions as it will freeze after being on for like, practically all day.

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• Eggyhead@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’d love to see what this feels like in the hands someday.

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  • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It feels really good to hold, but using it in games is weird unless the game has inputs suited for it.

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• PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I drove to Italy to a gamestop to buy two and two links. My first and last time in a gamestop!

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