So my old wireless Xbox 360 controller is kind of on its last legs, bad stick drift, thumbstick rubber starting to rub off, and I’m looking for a replacement. Would gladly just buy another 360 controller but they haven’t made them in years.
Got an 8bitdo Ultimate earlier this year and it has not lasted. Out of the box, the thumbsticks started losing sensitivity in one or two directions after a few hours of play, but I could get around this by messing with the deadzones in the software. Not an ideal solution, since it lowered the resolution, but it worked.
But now it’s got new and exciting problems that I can’t work around. Sometimes the B button won’t register at all. Sometimes the A button will press on its own. And my favorite, sometimes the entire controller just freezes and won’t accept any input for seconds at a time.
I had a coworker recommend a GuliKit but the face buttons are backward and that’s enough to put me off it.
Any advice?
Right, so valve is rumoured to be extremely close to announcing the steam controller 2, obviously steam support will be a given and valves controllers are usually decent quality. If you’re looking to buy a new one and can wait to see what valve brings out, I think that’d be a good idea.
Steamdeck has me waiting for that steam controller 2. Touchpads and steam input has me unable to go back especially for games with no native controller support. Really helps out cos shoulder injury makes mouse and keyboard really hard to use these days and i already have to use those for work
I bought the first steam controller, and tbh it’s really fun to use. I’ve beaten dark souls 1 dozens of times in it, and it works as new.
Also a big fan of the first steam controller. High hopes for the 2nd. If nothing else to replace the first one when it inevitably does die. The gen one controllers are like hens teeth now.
It’s great to find a fellow fan of the steam controller. I feel a lot of people didn’t really like the touchpad instead of a joystick and just discounted it as a fun, but impractical, experiment.