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Excited to announce our Steam Controller arrives on Steam May 4th at 10 a.m. PT. | Valve via Bluesky (bsky.app)
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[–] 28 points 6 months ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    damn, I just use a wireless keyboard with a trackpad and media keys.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Wireless keyboard on knees and a little round table for my mouse here.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Framework is putting one out

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago*

    oh i mean i already have one. it was like $30. from Logitech.

    don't need anything fancy for navigating from the couch. for games i have a nice third party controller with hall effect sticks and decent features, which cost less than a regular xbox controller. the flydigi vader 4 pro.

    the only world where this steam controller makes ANY sense is one where people just don't know how good this party controllers have gotten.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    As someone who regularly uses their OG Steam Controller with their Deck docked to the TV, it does work better. Having the trackpad does a lot of heavy lifting for non-game apps. Plus the trackpad simulating a trackball is great for FPS games.

    My one complaint is that about 50% of the time the controller double-inputs everything. You can fix it by removing the batteries and putting them back it, but it's still annoying.

    And a piece of advice for anyone interested, if you want to Watch Youtube videos without ads, Grayjay is available as a Flatpak. Go to desktop mode and search in dolphin/discover. Then you can open Steam (in desktop mode) and add it as a non-steam game. Once that's done, you can open it in game mode.

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