No point anyway. It's not like they're difficult to manufacture or constrained by available components.

I loved my OG steam controller! I wished I had bought more than one when it died 7 years later. Thing was bomb proof. Never had any other controller last that long say for anything built after the N64 anyway.

It took a lot of getting used to. So great for pc games.

Hoping the new one is just as durable. I guess it's reparable too!

why is today reminisce about projector day?

I used the OG steam controller when I had a projector setup, I'd turn my office chair (that I used at home) around to look at the wall instead of the computer and use the virtual keyboard/mouse for films or watching stuff, or even playing games. Although it did take a lot to adapt to some which I preferred to use a regular controller. I forget if it was Just Cause 3/4 I played the shit out of with the steam controller or something else.

Practically there wasn't really a difference with the Steam Deck. You still had everyone rushing at the same time to get the deposit in. People got errors during the check out, just like this time and scalpers popped up immediately as well.

Sure, you might have had a few people less, trying to buy it, if you restrict by age, but the controller was announced last year. Do you want Valve to sell the first controllers only to accounts that are older than 6 months or a year? Or do you go by the time the review embargo was up, which got broken because a few reviews leaked early.

So headlines will say "sold out in minutes!!!" and create FOMO for the second wave. That's my guess at least.

I never do that because there's not much I need enough to commit that much, but also because I'm worried that the next week thirty of them will show up on my doorstep and I'll realize I'm broke.

Same except for about 20 minutes, and that's after wasting like 5 minutes looking for my wallet lol, so apparently I bought one of the last ones in stock

Maybe they would have lost money overall. The store being down for 45 minutes, is not good fo business.

It does. You had your fun, now it's time fit the 0 hours gang.

Couple thousand hours on the og steam controller didn't help me today.

I think the price will throttle demand a bit more with the frame.

I had no issues here in Australia either, almost also forgot about it, but was having a coffee at work and ordered it on the steam mobile app. I'm pretty sure Valve have a warehouse for our region, its why we still have stock of the LCD steamdeck is still available

The only thing that appeals to me with the SC2 is having 4 back buttons. I love my OG, but I often struggle to decide upon where to bind CTRL or SHIFT modifiers. I like to use the existing back buttons for mode-shifting.

I recently setup my OG for playing Endless Sky. It's wonderful. On a low-power arm64 machine as well.

I've had 2 different ones, and both got the "R1" button broken. It's a pity because it's the best controller I've ever used

Same

yeah, but that was their first experience with hardware like this. there have been 2 steam decks since then.

Explains why my gen1 controller feels like shit. I never understood why people like them.

The haptics are worse than 90s 3rd party n64 controllers bought from a thrift store

Ni modo, we, ahi a la vuelta

... en el inicio me parecio chino.

Sos chileno?

Much closer to the steam deck. So has proper d pad, 2 analogue sticks with 2 square touch pads. Also has 4 back buttons, and capacitive touch sections on the grips. Has a few other features as well.

The PS5 DualSense is definitely the second-best choice if you can't get a Steam controller. It has comparable features, although I personally feel like the touchpads are placed in suboptimal position compared to the Steam controller. It also has comparable build quality, unlike Microsoft's various iterations of Xbox controllers that all have absolutely disastrous build quality.

dog help you when (not if) your dualsense gets stick drift tho

Why PS5?

why not any of the other good controllers out there. https://gamepadla.com/

We all know the "trackpad" on the ps5 controller is not really the same at all. Potentiometers for joysticks are unheard of in high quality controllers these days- everybody is using Hall Effect or TMR.

It's not like games really make use of touch controls these days, at least not the ones releasing on PC with high popularity like Crimson Desert.

PS5 controller specific, there is no dongle. You're stuck wired or bluetooth. Bluetooth is generally the worst for latency on any controller, and aside from a couple of very specific models with very low bluetooth latency it's really bad compared to a dedicated dongle / 2.4G.

I'm a huge fan of the Dual Sense. Best haptics I've ever felt, awesome triggers, etc.

That said, the track pad on it isn't at all comparable to the ones on the Deck (and I'm guessing this new controller).

Even if games did let you bind it to anything and use it as a mouse for FPS games (it doesn't), the size and placement is super awkward for that use

It's like trackball mice, it just takes practice to get used to. Next to no one outside logitech makes them either but they are still genuinely good if it's what you need.

The original controller is pretty awesome. It was also really really cheap. I love them because it's the only controller for playing games that were not designed for a controller.

As a steamdeck owner, the ability to use the trackpads to play old keyboard/mouse games without having to sit at a computer, is great. I've been playing a lot of Dungeon Siege and Baldur's Gate 2, released in early 2000's with mouse/keyboard in mind, and they both work flawlessly.

The new Steam Controller is a welcome addition because the old Steam Controller doesn't have the same button and joystick layout, plus its missing buttons, compared to the steamdeck. So when you want to dock the steamdeck and play your favorite first person shooter for example, and game on the TV in the livingroom, there's no controller until now that matches what you've become accustomed to expecting with muscle memory, from playing on the steam deck.

Xbox controllers are bad. I have two with stick drift. The steam controller has TMR sticks. They should never drift as long as the springs don't wear out. They also have a few other goodies. They are more comparable to the Xbox elite controller.

Well, first of all an Xbox controller costs around 50 which is not a third of the price. Secondly the Xbox controller has literally less than half the inputs of the steam controller: Xbox controller has a d-pad, 2 joysticks, 2 triggers, 4 face buttons, 2 top buttons, play/pause buttons and the special power button; whereas the Steam controller also has 4 back buttons, 4 capacitive sensors, gyro, 2 trackpads (each of which on its own has a ridiculous amount of possibilities for usage) and 2 special buttons which are kinda irrelevant here. And that's without mentioning the fact that TMR sticks are ridiculously better than traditional ones of the Xbox controller, or that the dongle works on a dedicated bandwidth instead of Bluetooth for the Xbox controller (because the dongle is sold separately I'm not considering it here, otherwise you need to add 20 to the total and then it's DEFINITELY not a third of the price) so latency is much better.

Also, I'm not near a keyboard and mouse most of the time when playing, as I usually play on my TV. If I were near a mouse and keyboard I wouldn't need a controller to begin with.

An xbox controller can be bought for a 3rd of the price

A used or older model one, maybe.

A new one is only $20 cheaper at $80.