Archived Valve has sold over 500,000 Steam Controllers (steamcommunity.com)
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Archived Valve has sold over 500,000 Steam Controllers (steamcommunity.com)
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[–] Kylan 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The main strength is customisability. I feel like I have more buttons and options within reach then I do comfortably on the keyboard and mouse. For MMOs, you can create a little menu thing attached to one of the pads, and navigate to a lot more buttons than you'd expect. This also has the best aiming of any controller thanks to the gyro. I find sniping is accurate as well as faster twitch motions. With enough practice I believe it's as good as keyboard and mouse. If you ever played the Zelda remakes for the 3ds and used the motion for aiming, you probably understand how valuable the gyro aiming is. Pad for big motions, gyro for subtle ones.
The main cons are the lack of a d-pad for older games. This is fine for like platformers but good luck playing a fighting game with key combinations and not fumbling. That being said, it doesn't wear on your thumb to play for a long while, so RPGs and casual stuff feels better.
Other con is entry requirements. You are getting used to a controller different than the rest and it takes a while to both learn how to customize to your liking, as well as be able to use it effectively. Biting the bullet and just using it for a few months has been worth it, and I'm glad I did, but there were frustrating moments.
Last con is that you have to go through steam, and while big picture doesn't have to be on for the actual game, you have to customize your control set in big picture. This makes things frustrating for non stream games as it's easiest just to switch desktop profiles for that, and it's also frustrating to have to go in and out of big picture constantly. I'm still waiting for someone to hack it so it doesn't have to be tethered to the cumbersome interface.
I don't regret buying it. My wife regrets buying hers because she got too frustrated with learning it.
[–] Num83rGuy ago
I'm on Steam beta so I don't know if it's a beta feature or not but, I can right click a game in Steam's standard UI and configure my Steam controller without going into big picture.
It does pop up the big picture config in a window without the button hints at the bottom but, it's better than waiting for BP's logo animation plus nav time and hassle.
This seems to work for non-Steam shortcuts in Steam as well.
[–] Kylan ago
Thanks for the tip. I'll have to try it. Would make a big difference