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Placed my order for the new one yesterday and I was curious. I bought the old one for 35 bucks at a discount. They must have had surplus stock in 2016 lol.

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[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It was also much less appealing with the touchpads replacing a thumbstick and dpad, instead of being in addition to them.

[–] galaxy_nova@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Every time people say they liked the original I’m amazed because it was so godawful for me. My friends and I made jokes about the steam controller lol. As if I’d want to give up actual buttons and a stick for thumb destroying touch pads smh. The second controller however is wonderful. They really do love the number 2 over there

[–] strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I wish they made a dual trackpad version with a dpad instead of the left stick

[–] Elting@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

You can program the left trackpad/dpad on the original to input stick controls.

[–] strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Which is what i do, but it's a physical improvement I'm wanting, not just the input.

I like the SC2026 but I don't prefer the track pads, I'm kind of in a nomans land between Controller preference now 😅

The haptic feedback isn't as good as a physical button though

[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Well the new one is great at least and has all of those things