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I want pink touchpads so the controller looks embarrassed.
Wow, people don't even have to finish the Blender render before spreading out "leaks" huh
I laughed and thought this was a joke. Then I opened the article and went wow.
The Steam Duke.
Honestly, even at the low render, it looks solid. Maybe a little concerned about the track pad placement and potentially hitting it with the heel of my hand, maybe.
By far my biggest gripe with the steams deck is hitting the trackpads with the palms of my hands. I usually disable them when playing a shooter like doom because otherwise the trackpads override my aim.
Looks solid
Yeah because it’s the shape of a brick. The track pads confuse me it would be like dual wielding computer mouses.
I mean, the trackpads don't have to control mouse cursors. They can be made to do pretty much anything, up to building action sets for a variety of key presses.
I'm worried they're treating the touchpad as secondary. I wanted them to be the main focus, at least on the right side, I hate joystick camera movement...
I was really looking forward to this, but the render doesn't seem like something I'd be interested in.
I need a Xbox style stick layout or my thumbs run into it each other, and I feel like those TouchPads are gonna get touched accidentally when using the sticks
We'll see, I'll probably still get one to try it out, getting tired of bumpers breaking and can see utility in the track pads, especially with steam controller configuration madness possible
Be rest assured that the same complaints were talked about the Steam Deck itself, and since I own one and have some decently sized hands, I can assure you that Valve will do all they can to make sure it is just as comfortable as the Deck is to hold!
This is also coming from someone who found the Steam Controller cool, but I hated not having some normal thumb sticks for games that provide controller support built in.
All in all, I think this will be a beautiful merging of a normal controller with the touch pads being a huge plus for the Steam community to tinker with and release some amazing controller layouts, just like they do with the Deck!
That looks great!
I just wanted a D-Pad on the left of the old controller.
In fact, just throw out the touch pad on the left altogether.
The touch pad is fucking amazing.. but I don't see a use case where you want two of them.
If you're not sure of how useful the left trackpad is for not only scrolling in desktop mode or on older PC games, I would also like to mention that the Steam Community that you can use others layouts can sometimes make the left track pad so so so much more useful. I found a picture that shows just how many things you can fit into this useful part of the layout. I found out about it while I was playing some older games on the Deck with the help of the EmuDeck community.
Have you used the steam deck?
There're quite a few controller layouts where the left pad is put to good use
Valve probably also don't want to split the controller layouts contributed by the community either