This is an absolutely brilliant move by Valve. Get more buyers purely for the quirky behavior of the controller, then sell even more when people accidentally break them from throwing them on the ground. They're just printing money at this point.
think about what game devs are going to be able to use this for - it's going to attract a very strange, and very fucking cool new type of gameplay interaction. Horror games alone throbbing a bump-bump pulse, cutesy interactions with purring virtual animals, like, shit man, this is gonna be fun!
I'm out of the loop. What did the steam controller do.
Despite not having a speaker the steam controller screams when you drop or throw it.
I have no speaker, and I still scream.
Uses similar vibration-based haptic audio output as the Joycons or the Dualsense.
Or the original Steam Controller.
Doesn’t the Dualsense have a dedicated speaker in the bottom middle of the face, independent from the haptic vibrators?
Wilhelm scream.
screams
If I end up buying one, this would be the reason
This is an absolutely brilliant move by Valve. Get more buyers purely for the quirky behavior of the controller, then sell even more when people accidentally break them from throwing them on the ground. They're just printing money at this point.
YEP!
think about what game devs are going to be able to use this for - it's going to attract a very strange, and very fucking cool new type of gameplay interaction. Horror games alone throbbing a bump-bump pulse, cutesy interactions with purring virtual animals, like, shit man, this is gonna be fun!
Another thread reminded me of the good ol Wii days, where the Wiimote did sounds for every character in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
It sounded like shit, but damn was it memorable for 10 year old kids. "Fight me!" "Prepare yourself!"
hell yeah
Wouldn't surprise me if it weren't intended but something they had in the dev build to test vibration based haptic audio.
Reminds me how people into drones used to make their quads play entire songs with the motors and then would burn them out from overheating
Or how people played "The Death I Deservioli" on step motors.
someone made an actual synth with drone motors!
https://gamechangeraudio.com/motor-synth/
that is so cool!
Tô me it reminds me of the things people did with the original steam controller, e.g. https://youtu.be/Bwq2btaPio0
oh thats pretty awesome I had no idea they have done this already
Far as I'm concerned it's the new normal. (Loving it! and expect to be able to repair it for a loong time.)