They’re cool but ultimately not too usable IMO. The decision to omit the 2nd joystick killed it as a viable replacement to a regular gamepad. You can clearly see “v2” in the Steam Deck, though, where they kept everything good about the Steam Controller and added the 2nd joystick and shrunk the touchpads a bit.
I bust mine out from time to time but I always go back to my console controllers.
It was never designed to be a ‘replacement’ for a regular gamepad. You can see this in all the marketing from back then. It shows people playing games like Cities Skylines on a TV, games that, to this day, still play terribly on controller.
It was designed to play PC only KB/M games. Not really gamepad games. The amount of FPS games I played with this thing, at a decently high level, is astounding. Plus the amount of mouse-only games too
They’re cool but ultimately not too usable IMO. The decision to omit the 2nd joystick killed it as a viable replacement to a regular gamepad. You can clearly see “v2” in the Steam Deck, though, where they kept everything good about the Steam Controller and added the 2nd joystick and shrunk the touchpads a bit.
I bust mine out from time to time but I always go back to my console controllers.
It was never designed to be a ‘replacement’ for a regular gamepad. You can see this in all the marketing from back then. It shows people playing games like Cities Skylines on a TV, games that, to this day, still play terribly on controller.
It was designed to play PC only KB/M games. Not really gamepad games. The amount of FPS games I played with this thing, at a decently high level, is astounding. Plus the amount of mouse-only games too