the steam controller is honestly such a weird piece of hardware. wireless and wired mode but still consumes those AA batteries while wired. no bluetooth support at launch, except the chip was there in the HW, so they patched it in later. world-class haptics but no rumble, they tried implementing rumble by overdriving the haptics and it was unusably loud. sound effects also implemented through haptics. incredible trackpads. worst dpad ever. the battery door flexes and there are buttons under it

@quat wasn't it years later

@quat yeah there was like a solid 2-3 year gap between the sc releasing and the bluetooth update

valve apparently hated it so much they burned off their entire remaining stock for $5 a pop, which is when i got mine. guess valve revisited the idea with the steak deck controllers, but, meh. i think it's like 30% valve shooting themself in the foot with weird design decisions and 70% world just not being ready for this fucking thing

@quat no that was bc corsair was suing them for patent violations with the battery door button thing

@quat i loved option 1, i hate how the steam deck doesnt have the indentation

@LemmaEOF @quat ok but the steam deck controller is worse than the steam controller. i would call this a hot take but most people ive seen who heavily used both seem to agree?

@quat have you seen the 2014 model steam controller they sent to people in the original steamos private beta? i think only like a hundred exist

@leo @quat if my opinion means anything I think the steam deck controller is much better than the steam controller