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Not only will the new Steam Controller scream at you but it can play tunes as well (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] 6 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Sound is just vibrations. If your vibration controls are good enough, they can reproduce sounds too. Sure, they "wasted" time writing software to do it, but it's insignificant. The hardware is there anyway. They might as well include it as a feature.

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  • [–] -5 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    I mean, they could also make a detachable fallic extension so you can also stimulate yourself. after all the vibrations are there so they might as well include this other feature.

    I'd even argue it would be more useful than what they did, but that's a matter of personal tastes.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Definitely more useful, but it requires adding something. This feature doesn't. It's already there.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    oh, you think the time to do that is significant?

    what a disappointment...

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I think it isn't significant. I assume you made a mistake in your comment.

    But yeah, it probably took very little time. The software already exists. I'm not sure if they used an existing library or wrote their own, but it isn't complicated. Not to mention, I'm pretty sure the original Steam Controller did this too, so it was written then, not now, if they wrote it themselves.

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