| pezus said:
"The Steam Controller is designed to work with all the games on Steam: past, present, and future. Even the older titles in the catalog and the ones which were not built with controller support." |
I need a steambox now. It can shine next to my ps4.
| pezus said: Hot damn. They figured out the issue with WiiU's pad: Touch Screen In the center of the controller is another touch-enabled surface, this one backed by a high-resolution screen. This surface, too, is critical to achieving the controller’s primary goal - supporting all games in the Steam catalog. The screen allows an infinite number of discrete actions to be made available to the player, without requiring an infinite number of physical buttons. The whole screen itself is also clickable, like a large single button. So actions are not invoked by a simple touch, they instead require a click. This allows a player to touch the screen, browse available actions, and only then commit to the one they want. Players can swipe through pages of actions in games where that’s appropriate. When programmed by game developers using our API, the touch screen can work as a scrolling menu, a radial dial, provide secondary info like a map or use other custom input modes we haven’t thought of yet. In order to avoid forcing players to divide their attention between screens, a critical feature of the Steam Controller comes from its deep integration with Steam. When a player touches the controller screen, its display is overlayed on top of the game they’re playing, allowing the player to leave their attention squarely on the action, where it belongs. |
sounds pretty awesome. maybe i will finally replace my 360 controller for my pc. really depends on if the track pads feel good
First thought was da fuq??
But it could be alright, i mean the standard controllers are definitely better though.
Are the bottom inside of the handles/grips anything?
No Dpad isnt great and ABXY are placed awkwardly, how can I run in FIFA and press X or Y at the same time??
The question is will they truly try to make a customizable home console with 1st party exclusives or will it be a single purpose (Steam) PC that you connect to your TV and not use their weird controller.
Looks really bad tbh. Although the idea sounds interesting.
Nintendo and PC gamer
pezus said:
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
it could be great for something like ego-shooter but not sure how something like fighting games will work with that.
i think i would prefer a larg circle that rotated over a lightly touched pad that doesn't move. I like to press hard not soft.
That might be the worst button placement I've ever seen. Having only two buttons on the right sounds like a terrible idea and there's too much space between them. And there's no d-pad! How dare they!? >:(
| JoeTheBro said: I'm very skeptical of this controller. Also it looks like xbone is the only new system that doesn't have touch on the controller. Wii U, PS4, Ouya, and now Steam will really push it as a standard in games. |
That’s a good thing for the ps4, the more devices that use a track pad the more likely well get game that support it and support it well. That’s part of the reason why both Kinect and wiiu's game pad will struggle. They are exclusive to one system.
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