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[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Its more a regular controller plus extra vs the old one was a good but you had to tweek your brain to make it work as the touch pads were a replacement for normal controls. Where as the touch pads are there own thing. Being able to create popup menus that only show up on touch and the gyro being enabled and disabled by touching the thumbsticks is a game changer. Its everything you love about the steam deck without the neck pain of looking down at the screen.

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The Deck gyro is activated by touching the thumbsticks, the Controller has sensors in the grips to activate the gyro.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 hours ago

You can reprogram gyro activation triggers too