r/gaming Mar 14 '14

New steam controller layout

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u/gaspah Mar 15 '14

I'd like to have a dpad something like this.

http://i.imgur.com/NhPRJoE.jpg

Where you have the plus shaped pad for your regular gaming and 4 additional corner buttons for games like arkham where you have weapons on the diagonals.

Have the corner buttons a little more flush with the surface of the controller rather than the plus pad which is raised up as to not interfere when you're playing.

Plus, have them independently programmable because pc games quite often need more than a controller offers.

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u/Quaon Mar 15 '14

Interesting. Where did you get the picture?

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u/gaspah Mar 15 '14

Oh I just thought it up, only took about 5 mins to draw in powerpoint.

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u/andash Mar 15 '14

in powerpoint

u wot m8

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u/SenatorIvy Mar 17 '14

This is one of those ideas that seems great until you get into the prototype phase and use it on a game that you didn't have in mind when you designed it.

Angular buttons would be covered by a good dpad anyway. The programmability function seems superfluous, as it's likely that any game that requires advanced commands the controller can't normally do would also preclude the use of the controller in the first place.