• Oth@lemmy.zip
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    10 hours ago

    Give me the Steam Deck layout sans screen and I’ll buy several.

    So fucking fed up being charged out the ass for a few extra buttons and/or shitty build quality.

    I went through RMAing SIX god damn Xbox elite 2 controllers before just giving up and getting my CC agency involved to get my money back.

    I just want a controller with back pedals and touchpads for mouse emulation. Is that so hard?

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      3 hours ago

      This 100%. Personally I’m happy with the build quality on my Elite 2, but I hate that it requires Windows 10+ to update the firmware. And it really needs a trackpad.

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      10 hours ago

      I’d be surprised if they weren’t making exactly that. It’d also give devs an easier way to test controlling with a deck without having to buy one

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      if it ends up being like the steam deck layout, they’ll probably just fuse the touch screens into one larger one in the center of the controller, towards the bottom. At that point, it would probably just be pretty similar to the playstation controller, but with slightly more questionable ergonomics, or maybe a more usable touchscreen.

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      10 hours ago

      It’s wild to me that somehow the elite controllers are worst than their cheaper brothers. I’ve owned both series. Both sucked hard.

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        9 hours ago

        Not to defend Microsoft, but I haven’t had any issues with my Elite 2 controller, and I’ve had it for a couple of years at least.

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      9 hours ago

      Give me the Steam Deck layout sans screen and I’ll buy several.

      This, they should include gyro too ideally if that doesn’t go without saying