No touch pads, what a disappointment. For a moment I though I could get one of those fancy steam controllers without having to buy a deck.
Technically you can if you learn a little 3d modeling and electronics. The index touch pads are cirque https://www.mouser.com/c/?marcom=118816186
Hmm. What’s your use case?
I mean, technically, the Steam Controller is neat and all. And it’s pretty customizable, so I get people who want to use it for some specific application.
I mean, as I understand it, the Steam Controller was aimed at supporting the Steam Machine. The basic problem was that Valve sold a large library of PC-oriented titles. A lot of these used a mouse. Gamepads were a poor substitute for the mouse. Valve wanted to get Steam into the living room, so put out their own video game console entrant.
But the Steam Machine didn’t sell well, so Valve’s reason for making the Steam Controller kind of went away. Most people gaming on a PC can just, well, use a mouse. I’m not saying that there’s no market for the thing – I’m sure that there are people who use a non-Steam-Machine PC to play games in the living room. But the intended use case for the thing kind of got clobbered.
It looks like there are still people selling Steam Controllers on eBay, though I assume that they aren’t going to be getting a whole lot of maintenance from Valve, given that they sold in relatively small numbers, and they haven’t been sold for about five years now. You could probably get one there.
I played Doom 2016 on the couch with. Touchpads for large camera movements and the gyro for precise aiming. Worked very good after getting used to it, felt better / more dynamic than a classic gamepad.
I dunno what nanoUFO is aiming for, but for your use case, can’t do that with dual touchpads alone, then. You’re after a touchpad+gyro. Hmm.
searches a bit
It does look like there is at least one touchpad+gyro input device out there other than the Steam Controller.
https://www.amazon.com/DarkWalker-Controller-PC-Mac-Linux-Unix/dp/B0CM5YXYZM/
That might take some remapping to glue the inputs to a given game, as I bet that it’s presenting itself to the system as a USB hub with an attached keyboard, gamepad, and touchpad.
no L5,R5, touchpads though
Loved the previous steam controller but probably passing on this as it is missing what I think is the killer feature: the rear buttons
It does have two back paddles. After getting used to the four on the deck though, I will say that’s a low number.
Japan only.