I drove to Italy to a gamestop to buy two and two links. My first and last time in a gamestop!
Got my Steam Controller guys! Ain't she a beaut 🤩
Submitted 9 hours ago by cm0002@lemy.lol to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 24 minutes ago
dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Still have mine, love the concave touchpads.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I still got this one in a drawer. I just wasn’t big on the primary touch pads with only one joystick.
lordnikon@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I loved mine but the 2026 steam controller is superior In every way.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yeah I plan to get one at some point. So over messing with Xbox controller drivers and other BS on Linux.
KiwiTB@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Except it didn’t look like an owl. Original Steam controller 1, new Steam controller 86.
tyler@programming.dev 6 hours ago
What makes it better? I kinda ignored the new one because the old one was so below expectations
Soapbox@lemmy.zip 5 hours 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.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 hours 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.
MoogMuskie@lemmy.zip 2 hours 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.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Nintendo’s buttons are arranged differently than Xbox. From left to right, top to bottom, Xbox goes XY AB, Nintendo goes YX BA.
X@piefed.world 6 hours ago
Still got mine! Once I adapted to touchpad buttons, I loved how it could be customized. Crazy cool controller.
jonne@infosec.pub 6 hours 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.
grue@lemmy.world 3 hours 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.
X@piefed.world 6 hours 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.
Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I love mine. I need to pickup a 4th.
CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 1 hour 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.
X@piefed.world 6 hours ago
Yeah, me too, now that I think about it.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 5 hours ago
Still use it with my physical steam link and my steam deck, mostly to setup game nights of jackbox.
dewritoninja@pawb.social 5 hours 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
Davel23@fedia.io 8 hours 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.
Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 minutes ago
It’s worth a lot more than $15 to other people, especially if it’s an unused one.
professor_prime@lemmychan.org 8 hours 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.
cm0002@lemy.lol 8 hours 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
venus@infosec.pub 6 hours ago
I hate this low effort repost bot
cm0002@lemy.lol 6 hours ago
Wut LMAO this is OC lolol
Zoop@beehaw.org 2 hours 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
Eggyhead@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I’d love to see what this feels like in the hands someday.
Natanael@slrpnk.net 5 hours ago
It feels really good to hold, but using it in games is weird unless the game has inputs suited for it.
Azzu@leminal.space 18 minutes ago
No real idea if it is “a beaut”, you haven’t shown the controller, only a marketing image.