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1. Re: Steam box hardware announced at CES

   

   Reply by Fuiosg · Mar 2014 · Home› General Discussion

   glad they added those buttons, you need a bit of tactility. Don't know how I feel about those dpad buttons though, it's gimped without diagonals.

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   Reply by ambershee · Mar 2014 · Home› General Discussion

   The shape of the grip still has me concerned, it doesn't look comfortable to try and reach the buttons. That said, even MS blew it with the new pad. I can't comfortably reach the shoulder buttons, whereas the old pad was fine :/

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   Reply by pior · Mar 2014 · Home› General Discussion

   Yeah, not feeling the lack of diagonals either. It's actually a very strange design decision coming from valve - if they are clever enough to realize that simple, old school push buttons are much better than fancy touch input for ABXY, they should also know that separating a d-pad into 4 individual buttons is a terrible…

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   Reply by Dataday · Mar 2014 · Home› General Discussion

   Sadness, I liked its old design better. The touch screen/button was one of its most appealing features in my opinion.

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   Reply by Fomori · Mar 2014 · Home› General Discussion

   I had a play with one of the cheap plastic prototype controllers a few weeks ago. Played some Hotline Miami. It's a very strange and new control system with those circular touch strips. Was only playing for about 7 minutes, so it wasn't enough time to get used to it, but I can see the potential. This version looks to be…