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Steam Deck

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[–] railway692@piefed.zip 31 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If this is true, this is a really cool feature, and I would be curious to see how it could be utilized with Steam Input for most games.

That's the thing. Everyone seems positive about this but... what do you do with it?

[–] tiberius@lemmy.ca 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm also curious how developers use this feature. The Dreamcast VMUs were a cool idea but it never caught on.

[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I wonder if it could sense when you were about to pick it up and start the power on or wake up process

[–] SilverCode@lemmy.ml 18 points 4 days ago

"Man, I really got to get to work. Let me just tidy up a bit before I go and move this steam controller of the couch aaaaaaannnnndddd now I might as well play some Balatro since the deck is on anyway"

[–] LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

...what, so we save a fraction of a second before we'd press the button anyway?