Whole thread of snarky people with surface level understanding thinking they're clever.

I mean yes, and that should speak to exactly how good the controller is.

I tried to get used to those touch pads because everything else was great about it. The customization, the feedback, just everything. It was fantastic and if it had analog sticks I would have bought a half dozen of them just to store them away cuz I would never need a different controller again.

If you're one of the lucky ones that can get used to the touchpads though, holy crap I would recommend that thing in a heartbeat.

Well first and primary from my own experience is the fact that most game controllers have a limited number of inputs and try to mask that behind duplicating buttons.

Take for example one of my primary controllers. It only has a set number of separate distinct "buttons"... So the extra shoulder buttons that I have can only remap from the existing buttons. I can move them around, but it's only going to be that set number of inputs. You can't even have an external program try to fake it because it's only sending those data points out of the controller, a set number which is less than the number of buttons.

So there's no way for me to have every button on the controller do something different and a modifier key to double the buttons.

This is something I bought a half dozen controllers trying to find a good alternative for, and all of them have some version of this issue.

Steam's controller? It is a fucking LEGEND for customization. I can have any key do anything I want it to do, and sing me a damn song while it does it.

That's one thing.

The button positioning as well is supreme. Several rear buttons instead of just the two silly triggers.

I like to weight profile and the balancing. It fits my hands very well and feels very ergonomic.

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So no, I don't agree that the only thing that was relevant about the steam controller was the touchpads.

Strong disagree there.

And it's acting as though the only feature of the steam controller was the touchpads.

I really hope they have double analog sticks on the new steam controller. The touchpads are nice, but they aren't sticks and mini games are designed with the feel of an analog stick in mind.

I just never could get used to be touchpads and certain games (dark souls for example) would just never feel right.

It is hands down the best controller aside from that fact. The customization, the feel of it overall, everything. I can't say enough good things about it. But it ended up getting used way less than I wanted.