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Excited to announce our Steam Controller arrives on Steam May 4th at 10 a.m. PT. Learn more and wishlist here: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamcontroller @steampowered.com
    • porkloin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8 hours

      It uses TMR sticks which are similar and in some ways better. The hall sensors technology but a little different

  • healer_56@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17 hours

    i still have my original steam controler from 20 years ago, i am waiting for the steamframe, hope this means it will also come soon.

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17 hours

      You gave me a mini heart attack, but I’m pretty sure you mean ~10 years ago.

      • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
        16 hours

        yesterday feels like 20 years ago.

        these are trying times

    • orenj@leminal.spaceEnglish
      17 hours

      Steamframes the one I’m most interested in. I missed out on the pandemic VR chat phenomenon, kinda hope the release re-ignites a little interest in that with folks.

  • fdnomad@programming.devEnglish
    9 hours

    Feels like the track pads add a lot to the size of the controller. The ad says its good for FPS games, is there any other good reason to use them?

    • Baggie@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2 hours

      Essentially it’s a controller designed to get a decent to excellent result playing anything on steam, part of that is you need a mouse and keyboard. I’ve used the ones on my steam deck a bunch, and they’re pretty good at most anything.

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
      3 hours

      There are lots of reasons. The primary one is for games that simply don’t support controllers. Think Anno or LoL or Civ.

      I wouldn’t even say they’re good for FPS. Mouse is still gonna be king for that.

      They’re also infinitely programmable and devs can even use them like any other input, like a weapon or inventory wheels.

    • cenariodantesco@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8 hours

      let me share how I use the trackpads: in most games, I customize the left one to behave as the left joystick, like really detailed custom controls, and then the left joystick becomes my shortcut hub: layers, action wheel, you name it.

      The right track pad is straight up mouse, I customize sensitivity and pair it with gyro. Let’s use deadlock as example, this level of customization allows me to play such fast paced shooter easily from my couch. Last year I used AI ( don’t shoot) to build a small tool that in a nutshell turns the steam deck in a steam controller when connected via USB to my living room PC, now that the control is almost here I don’t need the workaround anymore. i use the track pads primarily and the joysticks as secondary controllers

  • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15 hours

    Steam’s webshop servers are going to fucking explode.

    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.todayEnglish
      10 hours

      The last time I saw something put a hurting on Steam’s servers was the release of Silksong. I don’t think this is going to crash things too hard because they’ll sell out in an hour.

  • orenj@leminal.spaceEnglish
    17 hours

    Nice. I’ve been using an 8bitdo, but kinda struggled with my hybrid PC w/ Tv all the way over by the couch setup. A steam controller might be a little less wonky than using KDE connect on my phone

  • CaribouJim@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13 hours

    I really wish they had either made it modular or made a variation that had Xbox style stick layout, I find the dualshock layout with the side-by-side joysticks uncomfortable, would’ve been the endgame controller.

      • kionay@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15 hours

        10:00.1

        ten hours, zero minutes, and one tenth of a minute (6 seconds)

        or ten minutes, zero seconds, and one tenth of a second?

        either way fuck the scalpers that are gonna try to ruin this for everyone

    • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
      13 hours

      I’ll be trying, but there’s a 99% chance it’s not available in my country 😭

      • ScytheDraven47@piefed.zipEnglish
        9 hours

        It was the same for the original Steam controller, and the Deck on launch… Even the Index is still pretty hard to obtain.

        • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
          8 hours

          Yeah Valve doesn’t ship to NZ. I have a Steam Controller 1 and have previously had an Index as well, but I had to freight forward to get them, and I seem to recall needing some trickery of changing the Steam account to another region to get it to work.

          • ScytheDraven47@piefed.zipEnglish
            8 hours

            I looked into that with the Index but the price was horrendous… I really hope MightyApe or PBTech do some importing this time around.

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16 hours

      $100 is fairly steep, but I’ll shell out a bit extra for quality. My Xbox controllers have lasted me years, but at least one of the recurring problems I’ve seen with them after so much use could be remedied by the better tech in the sticks in these things.

  • Buffalobuffalo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    17 hours

    At ~1 hour after the post I’m unable to add to my wish list from my Steam mobile app, indicates “Reservation Servers are busy, please try again” without response.