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

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.

Where you at?

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

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.

And by 10:00.1 it will be sold out.

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

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.

Could have been much worse tbh. The Razer Wolverine V3 Pro costs roughly double that, for example 🤷🏻

Yeah, at that price point I'll just hold on to my DS4.

$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.

$100 is a ripoff for a controller.

Signed, A dumbass who paid $200 for a dual sense edge, lmao

Control, control! You must learn control!

I've had it wishlisted since it was announced, may be a region thing?

From reviews, it sounds like it functions as a normal Xbox controller without Steam running to augment it. Most of the time. I heard Retro Arch reads it as a mouse and keyboard, which is how the old Steam controller worked.

They are incredibly useful, especially with PC games that require lots of inputs. You can create menus for the track pads. Great for weapon or item selections or various shortcuts in simulation games.

And a simpler thing I did with them on the Steam Deck was to put mouse input on both so that I could play point and click adventures one-handed with either hand.

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

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.

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.

I've found virtual/radial menus to be a nice use. In games that have more keyboard bindings than controller options you can bind keys to a virtual menu. For example I could never abuse quicksave/quickload on a controller in New Vegas before.

Games that are in designed for only Mouse & Keyboard

But I mostly plan to use it to control as mouse keyboard on my desktop.

My PC is hooked to my TV. Using a mouse on a couch fukin sucks. A track ball is alright but it has to be wireless and you still need a keyboard. This solves both issues.

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