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Leak: Valve is making a Steam Controller 2 (www.theverge.com)

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[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I hope they improve on the following

The touchpads and paddle "clicks" are way too noisy
An actual D-pad
ABXY buttons less mushier
USB-C port for charging
Similar to Steam Deck layout
A place to store the USB dongle inside the controller when not in use
Better rumble

I switched to an 8bitdo controller with hall effect joysticks since, but I do miss the touchpad's precision for FPS.

[–] StantonVitales 3 points 19 hours ago

Agreed with all of this except for similarity to Deck (if the touchpads are squircles I will lose my mind), but my main concern is the shoulder buttons. Pressing shoulder buttons on the SC is literally manual labor and sounds like cracking a glow stick. Hopefully they'll be more like the Deck or any other modern gamepad.

[–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Yes to all this. I picked up my original Steam Controller the other day and forgot just how crazy loud that thing is.

[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The only reason I stopped using mine was because the membrane that makes the ABXY feel mushy eventually went and I couldn't find a suitable replacement.

If they put in some sort of mechanical switches there so that this couldn't happen, I would probably never use anything else.