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Steam Deck

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[–] ashok36 46 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The Steam controller is a miracle. Yes, it's a first Gen product that needs iteration but a controller with track pads, gyro, paddle buttons, and wireless for $50 is still the best value controller ever made imo.

Throw in steam input, which if you haven't tried it lately is fucking amazing at this point, and I honestly can't understand why companies aren't clamoring to integrate it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Full controls customizability with 1000's of options and, something very few controllers seem to have for some reason, digital+analog triggers.

Plus it helped normalize paddles.

Steam controller is amazing and I'd love a gen 2 that matches my steam deck layout.

[–] Zombiepirate 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

It was killed by patent trolls because of those back paddles. I'm still kicking myself for not grabbing some when they were clearance for $5.

I'm glad I picked one up when they first came out though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait what was killed? The steam controller?

[–] Zombiepirate 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they stopped producing them due to the patent trolls. They ultimately won the case though, which is why the deck has back buttons.

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