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    News - Valve’s Steam Controller is “a different kind of gamepad”

    Valve attempts to bridge the desktop to the living room without any control compromises.
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    Re: News - Valve’s Steam Controller is “a different kind of gamepad”

    For some reason I can picture many blistered thumbs.

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    Re: News - Valve’s Steam Controller is “a different kind of gamepad”

    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.

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    Re: News - Valve’s Steam Controller is “a different kind of gamepad”

    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.

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    Re: News - Valve’s Steam Controller is “a different kind of gamepad”

    OH MY GOD YES!!!

    *throws wallet at screen*

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    Re: News - Valve’s Steam Controller is “a different kind of gamepad”

    Quote Originally Posted by MrCanzine View Post
    For some reason I can picture many blistered thumbs.
    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.

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    Re: News - Valve’s Steam Controller is “a different kind of gamepad”

    I love it, looks awesome. I don't think it is possible for them to price it above what I am willing to pay either. Looking forward to this becoming available.

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    Re: News - Valve’s Steam Controller is “a different kind of gamepad”

    "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.

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    Re: News - Valve’s Steam Controller is “a different kind of gamepad”

    Love the concept, very interested to see it in practise.

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    Re: News - Valve’s Steam Controller is “a different kind of gamepad”

    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.

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    Re: News - Valve’s Steam Controller is “a different kind of gamepad”

    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

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    Re: News - Valve’s Steam Controller is “a different kind of gamepad”

    Quote Originally Posted by MrCanzine View Post
    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.
    Or you just man up?

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    Re: News - Valve’s Steam Controller is “a different kind of gamepad”

    am i the only one who thinks trying to use a trackpad as an FPS or RTS gaming input is ridiculous?

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    Re: News - Valve’s Steam Controller is “a different kind of gamepad”

    Quote Originally Posted by Biscuit View Post
    am i the only one who thinks trying to use a trackpad as an FPS or RTS gaming input is ridiculous?
    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.

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    Re: News - Valve’s Steam Controller is “a different kind of gamepad”

    Quote Originally Posted by moeburn View Post
    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.
    There's always lube.

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    Re: News - Valve’s Steam Controller is “a different kind of gamepad”

    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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