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[–] 2 points 4 months ago (5 children)

It's a hyped-up piece of videogame hardware. I'm gonna guess half the sales were to scalpers planning to immediately resell at twice the price.

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

    It's hyped because of the touchpads. And hall effect sticks

    That's why I got it. Sold the dual shock, and Hoping to sell my Xbox controller too

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah it does seem nice, and I didn't say it's OVERhyped. Just saying scalpers are always a big part of stuff like this.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Yeah. They probably are a factor too

    I'm lucky that my brother managed to get a steam controller, but realised he didn't really need it, so instead of waiting until 2027, I got one of the first batches

    There's gonna be a lot of people selling their Xbox and other controllers though soon

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Almost every third party controller these days uses Hall effect or TMR.

    It's hyped because it's sTeAm and scalpers.

    I sweat they do this limited inventory on purpose for the news coverage

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    There's no other controllers with touchpad other than dualsense I could find. And dual sense didn't work for me very well on steam

    That's why people want it. I looked extensibly.... I'm used to gaming on keyboard or mouse so I figured I'm better on touchpad than sticks

    And why would they need the press coverage into 2027? Id expect they'd prefer sales, where the money could be used for marketing.They already have products like steam frame which will generate media attention later this year

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