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TruckOSaurus on 27 September 2013
iamdeath said:
TruckOSaurus said:
I think I'll stick to my Dual Shock 3. This looks awful.


Talk about jumping the gun.......This could be brilliant, I doubt valve released this without extensive research and thought.  Wait until more is revealed , and when people actually get it in their hands.

I've never had a good experience with track pads so I'm not that thrilled about it. The Steam Machines and Steam OS look very interesting but I doubt I'll be buying the controller since I have plenty of perfectly good controllers at home.



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Mmmfishtacos on 27 September 2013

Did anyone read the link, where they said the controller is easily hack able? This is just the start, wait for the madmen to get a hold of this thing. It's going to be crazy.



Porcupine_I on 27 September 2013

Ok guys, you had your fun, now where is the real controller?



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0815user on 27 September 2013

somehow i doubt that dual trackpads work as good or better than dual analog sticks but i might give it a try to see for myself.



dahuman on 27 September 2013

Brilliant engineering but ugly as all fuck, will buy.



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Mythmaker1 on 27 September 2013
0815user said:
somehow i doubt that dual trackpads work as good or better than dual analog sticks but i might give it a try to see for myself.


It lacks some of the feedback from the sticks, but they might be able to compensate somewhat with haptic feedback. The other significant difference is distance, since you have to move your fingers farther from their starting point on a touchpad than you do a stick.



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Chris Hu on 27 September 2013

Not feeling it.



0815user on 27 September 2013
Mythmaker1 said:
0815user said:
somehow i doubt that dual trackpads work as good or better than dual analog sticks but i might give it a try to see for myself.


It lacks some of the feedback from the sticks, but they might be able to compensate somewhat with haptic feedback. The other significant difference is distance, since you have to move your fingers farther from their starting point on a touchpad than you do a stick.

i also see some problems in how your thumb feels due to the friction after long input intensive gaming sessions. maybe one stick and one touchpad would have been a better choice but then it also would not have been so left-hander friendly. let's see...



Mythmaker1 on 27 September 2013
0815user said:
Mythmaker1 said:
0815user said:
somehow i doubt that dual trackpads work as good or better than dual analog sticks but i might give it a try to see for myself.


It lacks some of the feedback from the sticks, but they might be able to compensate somewhat with haptic feedback. The other significant difference is distance, since you have to move your fingers farther from their starting point on a touchpad than you do a stick.

i also see some problems in how your thumb feels due to the friction after long input intensive gaming sessions. maybe one stick and one touchpad would have been a better choice but then it also would not have been so left-hander friendly. let's see...


Possibly, though that has more to do with the texture of the pad than anything else. It'll probably be something one needs to try out to get a real feeling for.



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Xenostar on 27 September 2013

looks weird but i cant wait to try it, alot of people thinking a console can only have one controller, this could be great for mousy based games and still use a normal controller for more console type games.