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[–] peetabix@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is it a good controller? How does it compare to an Xbox 360 controller?

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

It's fine. Poorly.

[–] platysalty@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Sorry, on what controller now?

[–] xrtxn@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

But... they are discontinued already lol

[–] fraydabson@weloveautomation.xyz 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A lot of people still have a few that we converted to bluetooth so this is great news!

[–] Defaced@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

I have two of them, and they're great controllers. It has a really nice dpad and the joysticks never had any reputation for stick drift. The Bluetooth implementation suffers from the same problem all Bluetooth controllers have though, latency. If it weren't for the shoddy Bluetooth implementation it would be the perfect controller.

[–] LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch 12 points 2 years ago

It's the primary controller I use with my SteamDeck.

I got it for free with a stadia promo, then Google unlocked the Bluetooth, and it works fine.

[–] ono@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

They're easy to find for $15-20 USD. What does it matter if they're discontinued?

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 8 points 2 years ago

Google pushed an update allowing them to be used as regular controllers

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

So is the Steam Controller, but I'll continue to use them until something better comes along.