• Willow
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    It is the Steam Deck without the screen. Just the controller I ever wanted

  • @Kissaki@beehaw.org
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    211 hours ago

    All I hope for is that the Controller fits well in my long thin hands - like the fat Steam Controller does.

    With the right joystick in place, it’s certainly a product I may buy. The Steam Controller trackpad was not a sufficient alternative for joystick input when most games designed input with the right joystick in mind. Aiming and camera control with a variable and non-tactile deadzone and input default of trackpad camera controls has always been annoying to me.

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      So did the Deck but it ended up being pretty ergonomic in practice.

      • Gamma
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        21 day ago

        The angle looks a bit odd too, I’d expect those grips to be more prominent if it wasn’t angled down

    • @Hubi@feddit.org
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      It looks like the inbred cousin of the Xbox “Duke” that ended up being surprisingly ergonomical. This may be an unpopular opinion, but I genuinely hope it’s something close to that. Most controllers are too small for me.

      • It’d be cool if controllers could just be adjustable size. Hand sizes are wild. My fingers are pretty short; my best friend has E.T. length fingers. We are otherwise about the same height and build.

        • @Hubi@feddit.org
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          It’d be cool if controllers could just be adjustable size

          True, especially in width. I remember being extremely disappointed when I bought a PS3 and could barely play it because the joysticks so close together that my thumbs were constantly touching. I think the total amount of hours played on this system was somewhere in the double digits. Biggest waste of money of my gaming career.

      • DarkThoughts
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        41 day ago

        Duke? Is that the Xbox 1 pad? Because I actually loved that. It’s a chunker but was very comfortable for my larger hands. Reminded me a lot about the Dreamcast gamepads.

        • @Hubi@feddit.org
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          Yeah, that’s the one. The Original Xbox Duke and the X360 controller are the GOATs imo. The Xbox One controller is also fairly decent but it took a while to get used to it.

          • DarkThoughts
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            51 day ago

            The 360 & One pad look nearly the same to me in regards to their form. I have a 360 one still and I hate it because the dpad is the absolute worst garbage. It’s inaccurate as hell and gets tiring real quick. Really struggled with that in CrossCode. I also hate how only the Chinese pads seem to have hall sensors.

            • @Hubi@feddit.org
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              Fair enough, but the dpad on the 360 one was an improvement compared to the one from the Duke.

              I was mostly ranking them in regards to general ergonomics. The Xbox One controller just feels more “slippery”, the 360 had a better feel to it, probably because the handles were more rounded.

              • DarkThoughts
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                I only used the Duke on the actual Xbox, while I use my current pad on my PC - or at least very rarely. There’s generally more games on the PC where I can make use of the dpad (retro & indie gaming). Never really had to use it on the Xbox back then.

  • Björn Tantau
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    I really hope the VR controller can be used without VR. Stop forcing my hands together! I want freedom!

    Loved the Wii for the ability to hold my hands independent of each other.

    • @mtlvmpr@sopuli.xyz
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      41 day ago

      Well the joy-cons kinda do that but if you wanted something that’s actually adult sized you’d have to check 3rd party options and there’s probably no guarantee that it will work on anything other than the Switch.

      • Da Bald Eagul
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        JoyCons are very uncomfortable and fairly unreliable… Would be nice to have some quality product that serves a similar purpose.