Valve Announces Steam Controller

[Angelus]

pezus said:

Angelus said:
I have to be perfectly honest here.....that looks absolutely terrible

I mean not just is it ugly, I could easily get over that if it at least seemed very functional, but from personal experience I find that moving your thumbs (or other fingers) over any sort of touch control surface for longer periods of time is EXTREMELY uncomfortable. So unless this is some groundbreaking new type of surface that is somehow super comfortable to slide your thumbs across for hours on end, which I very much doubt, this is fail right from the word go. The rest of the shape and layout aren't exactly confidence inspiring either.

Well, one thing it'll have is haptic feedback. Don't know about the surface itself, but you can be sure that Valve will (and have already) tested it extensively.

This is meant to be touched lightly, though. Like a trackpad on a laptop.

Idk about you man, laptop trackpads get uncomfortable pretty quickly to me as well, despite the fact that you only have to go over them very lightly. If I'm using it a lot, it becomes uncomfortable to me after like half an hour or so. I can't even imagine using some sort of trackpad surface on a controller for gaming purposes over a matter of hours. I wouldn't even attempt it