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As always, I’m not going to be able to play half my usual games without touchpads.
Analog sticks do not make a good mouse replacement.
That's why I loved the steam controllers...
I really love the deck's layout, the original steam controller only having one analogue stick killed it in my opinion. I could never get used to trackpads joystick emulation in games that were designed for an Xbox controller.
Valve leaked a Steam Controller 2 thumbnail in their SteamVR drivers recently:
I'm hype.
Like, you are the human embodiment of hype? Hype made manifest?
I have become hype, destroyer of expectations.
10/10 save
I already build a Bazzite PC. Just waiting on this to turn it into a proper Steam Deck on crack.
That looks soo uncomfortable to hold
Honestly I said the same about the Deck when I bought it... Fast forward 1 and half year later, my playtime is now 99% on the Deck 😅.
I haven't seen one of these in person. Is it roughly the size of a Sega Game gear?
The screen is roughly the size of a Game Gear. (Not my photo.)
The internet is amazing sometimes.
I just wish more people knew how to use it. All I did was search DDG for Steam Deck Game Gear size comparison.
This is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen
if there is anyone still alive to make the comparison for you they are probably too busy celebratinng their second grandchild
Those are fighting words, and also pretty inaccurate unless you're from Louisiana or something
haha. I am old enough that I could have had one if my family wasn't really bad with money. I just never knew anyone else that had it either
I’m going to guess it’s scaled so it’s basically like holding the Deck today, minus the screen. It’s a render and possibly a render of an older prototype.
ok what would make sense
If ducks tied bananas to their feet.
I had the same experience, by why is that??? On paper, it should have really felt the same.
Well, I don't know if it should've felt the same. The feedback you get from deflecting a stick is just personally preferable to the feedback of haptics and a touchpad for me.
Yeah, it probably comes down to resistance. When you start to move the stick from the center, you have to work against a tiny bit of resistance. With a touchpad, there is absolutely no resistance to let you know when you are not at the center. As you say, that little rumble you get is not equivalent at all. Possibly an even more important type of resistance is how a joystick basically has its own physical boundary to limit how far you can push the stick in any direction. You can flick the stick as hard/fast as you want, and it will always stop at a certain point. On a touchpad, you don't have that resistance, meaning you have to manually slow down and stop your finger as you reach the edge, or else it will just fly off the touchpad.
The controller touchpad had a teally noticeable haptic feedback that was more pronounced in the center. So yeah, you really knew when you were getting out of the center. In fact the frequency of the haptic feedback was enough to know insitnively where on the circle you were.