Read more.Valve attempts to bridge the desktop to the living room without any control compromises.
Read more.Valve attempts to bridge the desktop to the living room without any control compromises.
For some reason I can picture many blistered thumbs.
I love how this controller looks and I want one already. I would very much like to see how this controller works with racing or strategy games, since it looks honed for fps games.
Ahh, takes me back to the Dreamcast controller with VMU screen
That's no bad thing, if the price is OK I want one. Can't see it being cheap though.
OH MY GOD YES!!!
*throws wallet at screen*
Hmm, yes, how would they prevent that? That's the nice thing about thumbsticks, you are pushing an actual stick. But in order to use a trackpad, you have to push your skin across it, sometimes with enough force that after a while, it starts to hurt. You develop sore areas on the skin that you used on the track pad.
They would either have to make it so sensitive that you barely have to float your thumb over it to work, or employ some sort of super-slick teflon coating that doesn't have enough friction to irritate your skin and thumb muscles.
"We are told that both these trackpads have a similar resolution to your computer mouse." Similar to what kind of mouse? I personally game with a 5700dpi mouse, at maximum DPI setting.
Love the concept, very interested to see it in practise.
I'm glad you're all positive about the new tech, it seems too often these days people are negative before they've even tried something... That's where I come in.
Wasn't something similar tried on the playstation phone? And didn't it fail...
I'll adopt a wait and see approach, but I don't like the idea.
While it is properly the renders, to me it looks like the pad curves forwards towards the user rather than backwards with traditional controllers?
They come from the dark and slice your head off
Chadders87 (30-09-2013),kalniel (28-09-2013),razer121 (28-09-2013)
I'd love a pad with the right stick replaced with a a trackpad or trackball for FPS as I'm no good with an analogue stick. However, while this controller addresses that problem, it introduces new ones imo which suggest I won't get on with it. Will wait and see but I can't see it replacing a 360 pad for me anytime soon.
I think the problem with thumbsticks is that it is not easy to get the right speed of movement in FPS games. You can adjust sensitivity to speed them up or slow them down but you can't do it on the fly in the middle of an mp game.
I think trackpads will make that easier and lead to great precision too.
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