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addandsubtract on Sept 28, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: My time with the Steam Controller

I imagine it's similar to an old iPod's click wheel. Only tuned to be more precise, easier to click / press and overall more accurate.

With that said, I agree with the author in that I enjoy buttons on my controllers. I need to physically press something. Playing SMB, for example, on a touch screen just doesn't feel right. I'm also worried about how pressing multiple buttons on the same touchpad is going to work. Are the diagonals going to act as a combo-press?

baq on Sept 28, 2013 [–]

from what i've read, you can bind any section of the track wheel to whatever you want - so in this case, probably not a combo press.

as for needing to press something, there's this new haptic feedback stuff.

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