This is an absolutely brilliant move by Valve. Get more buyers purely for the quirky behavior of the controller, then sell even more when people accidentally break them from throwing them on the ground. They're just printing money at this point.
think about what game devs are going to be able to use this for - it's going to attract a very strange, and very fucking cool new type of gameplay interaction. Horror games alone throbbing a bump-bump pulse, cutesy interactions with purring virtual animals, like, shit man, this is gonna be fun!
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Emi@ani.social · 67 pts · 108d
I'm out of the loop. What did the steam controller do.
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 111 pts · 108d
Despite not having a speaker the steam controller screams when you drop or throw it.
spizzat2@lemmy.zip · 112 pts · 108d
I have no speaker, and I still scream.
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 108d
Uses similar vibration-based haptic audio output as the Joycons or the Dualsense.
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 107d
Or the original Steam Controller.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 107d
Doesn’t the Dualsense have a dedicated speaker in the bottom middle of the face, independent from the haptic vibrators?
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 108d
Wilhelm scream.
nialv7@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 108d
screams
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 66 pts · 108d
If I end up buying one, this would be the reason
cobysev@lemmy.world · 87 pts · 108d
This is an absolutely brilliant move by Valve. Get more buyers purely for the quirky behavior of the controller, then sell even more when people accidentally break them from throwing them on the ground. They're just printing money at this point.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 107d
YEP!
think about what game devs are going to be able to use this for - it's going to attract a very strange, and very fucking cool new type of gameplay interaction. Horror games alone throbbing a bump-bump pulse, cutesy interactions with purring virtual animals, like, shit man, this is gonna be fun!
Datz@szmer.info · 2 pts · 105d
Another thread reminded me of the good ol Wii days, where the Wiimote did sounds for every character in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
It sounded like shit, but damn was it memorable for 10 year old kids. "Fight me!" "Prepare yourself!"
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 105d
hell yeah
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 4 pts · 107d
Wouldn't surprise me if it weren't intended but something they had in the dev build to test vibration based haptic audio.
xylol@leminal.space · 22 pts · 107d
Reminds me how people into drones used to make their quads play entire songs with the motors and then would burn them out from overheating
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 4 pts · 107d
Or how people played "The Death I Deservioli" on step motors.
noxypaws@pawb.social · 3 pts · 107d
someone made an actual synth with drone motors!
https://gamechangeraudio.com/motor-synth/
xylol@leminal.space · 2 pts · 107d
that is so cool!
Nibodhika@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 106d
Tô me it reminds me of the things people did with the original steam controller, e.g. https://youtu.be/Bwq2btaPio0
xylol@leminal.space · 1 pts · 105d
oh thats pretty awesome I had no idea they have done this already
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 107d
Far as I'm concerned it's the new normal. (Loving it! and expect to be able to repair it for a loong time.)