Oh may how i miss the steam controller.
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Remote controller? you don't need one. Your PC from the couch? special controls for that too. You are more a joystick person? we can emulate that. Do you like mouse? we have that too.
It's hard for you? don't worry, here you have the best haptic feedback ever developed.
And of course, you can change literally ANYTHING of the controller AND how the game reads it!
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I had to save for the first one so i didn't had the chance to buy more, but i would have done it happily.
The only real bad thing was the quality of some of the plastics. But i can't wait as you say for a new revision.
I was an avid keyboard+mouse enjoyer until the steam controller haha
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@YoSoyFreeman yeah, it's seriously great! and i know the second one will be a HUGE success, i really can't wait
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@lashman Totally! It was too revolutionary for it's time, but since then people have grown used to alternative inputs methods (xr controllers, motion tracking etc)
We all know valve, they wont release another one until they fixed everything it was still on progress. It's going to be huge.
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@YoSoyFreeman well, it's more about the lawsuits from patent trolls really, but i hope they'll find a way to somehow work around that and actually release a new one sooner rather than later
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Wait what? Can you make me a resume of that or something? i had no idea!
I haven't followed since it was retired.
I'm guessing valve didn't do the thing of over patenting stuff because of good faith and someone did it? it has happened before. Wow, that's sad.
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@YoSoyFreeman yeah, that's the main reason WHY they discontinued it and were selling out the remaining stock for $5, lol
and here you go: https://screenrant.com/valve-steam-controller-lawsuit-controversy-patent-ironburg-inventions/
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Gonna read that!
When all of this happened i was totally out of the game dev community, English speaking spaces or international gaming news. I clearly remember spanish news about how the controller was "So bad it was discontinued and valve was trying to get rid of them"
Learning languages give you another pair of eyes-
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@YoSoyFreeman yeah, absolutely!
but hey - it's never too late! so now you know what happened, haha -
I think they were as shocked to see a judge rule in favor of the patent for back buttons (Which were a thing before scuff, precisely in the no-brand cheap category)
But the article says valve did indeed retired the controller due to very low sales, and later they were sued
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@YoSoyFreeman it was both things actually, there were 2 lawsuits for the controller, and they retired it after the first one - because it was cheaper than trying to fight it AND because the sales were indeed low
