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They took em away cuz there’s a patent troll on buttons behind controllers. All the cons you put forth are fairly solvable or up to user preference (I quite liked the touch pads myself)

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NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Obligatory: Fuck Polygon since it is now a website owned by people who built their empire on rape

polygon.com/…/valve-steam-controller-lawsuit-scuf… covers the lawsuit.

It was filed in 2015. Valve discontinued the controller at some point between that and when they finally sold out in 2019.

That can mean one of two (main) things:

Valve was so afraid of the lawsuit that they immediately stopped production and still took 4 years to sell out of their inventory

Valve didn’t care and continued to produce units up until 2018/2019

Both are fairly plausible because 4 million USD isn’t even what GabeN spends on knives in a given year. Neither paint a picture of the Steam Controller being some wild success.

Because, if it were, they could have just as easily

Paid a licensing fee to SCUF et al. Which is what I assume 8bitdo, MS, and Sony all do? … Also Valve since the Steam Deck has back paddles too

Released a revision that got rid of the back paddles

Its great you like it. That doesn’t mean others did.
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