Gamers nexus, a channel that has been a top resource for gamers looking for hardware reviews for over a decade, doesn’t have enough experience gaming to talk about peripherals? What kind of expertise are you looking for exactly? What review source would you recommend to someone interested in buying the new steam controller?
I do get their point. But, it’s not a GamerNexus exclusive criticism though, since it’s like giving a gaming mouse to someone who only uses a controller to review it then being surprised the type of insight you’d expect from a review channel centered around gaming mice. Like covering latency which is useful and general feel, but not really getting into how it translates to different grip styles and doing tracking and flick tests to see how their aim translates over.
For a good review I would expect some coverage highlighting the unique features of the Steam Controller like the gyro, touchpads, capacitive joysticks, and grip sensors along with some basic Steam Input information on what exactly are the settings available for the grip sensors. Those are after all the features that are missing from cheaper alternatives. Coverage on that for gyro gamers interested in the controller because of that tech and how well it works as a gyro activation features has been lacking, since these are inputs that many reviewers are not familiar with. Along with how the gyro compares to existing controllers and how prone to drift it is and how smooth the gyro is when mouse is bound to it on high refresh rate monitors.
Lot of the controller perspectives have felt like they are coming from the point of view of Xbox controller users who pick up a mouse for everything else, so not having much understanding or experience in how to really utilize these features or not having enough time in the two weeks they got to try it to really understand it. So coverage has been just some few second long clips of this feature exists and being more mentioned because it is on the spec sheet. It’s like getting a review on a motorcycle from a channel that only reviews cars and hasn’t driven motorcycles before.
I guess what I’d at the minimum expect is an example like this old 10 year old clip at the 1:21 mark of someone showcasing mouse input on the touchpads, gyro being activated on touch, and then demonstrating it being used to aim at multiple targets and getting forth a lot more information in those 40 seconds than 20 minute long videos to people who hadn’t seen that type of input use before and actually coming across as though they have put in time to be actually proficient at it.
Why the hate for GN? You just clearly dont like the controller, but whats that got to do with them?
GN simply isn’t a peripherals review channel with no particular expertise in this field.
Gamers nexus, a channel that has been a top resource for gamers looking for hardware reviews for over a decade, doesn’t have enough experience gaming to talk about peripherals? What kind of expertise are you looking for exactly? What review source would you recommend to someone interested in buying the new steam controller?
I do get their point. But, it’s not a GamerNexus exclusive criticism though, since it’s like giving a gaming mouse to someone who only uses a controller to review it then being surprised the type of insight you’d expect from a review channel centered around gaming mice. Like covering latency which is useful and general feel, but not really getting into how it translates to different grip styles and doing tracking and flick tests to see how their aim translates over.
For a good review I would expect some coverage highlighting the unique features of the Steam Controller like the gyro, touchpads, capacitive joysticks, and grip sensors along with some basic Steam Input information on what exactly are the settings available for the grip sensors. Those are after all the features that are missing from cheaper alternatives. Coverage on that for gyro gamers interested in the controller because of that tech and how well it works as a gyro activation features has been lacking, since these are inputs that many reviewers are not familiar with. Along with how the gyro compares to existing controllers and how prone to drift it is and how smooth the gyro is when mouse is bound to it on high refresh rate monitors.
Lot of the controller perspectives have felt like they are coming from the point of view of Xbox controller users who pick up a mouse for everything else, so not having much understanding or experience in how to really utilize these features or not having enough time in the two weeks they got to try it to really understand it. So coverage has been just some few second long clips of this feature exists and being more mentioned because it is on the spec sheet. It’s like getting a review on a motorcycle from a channel that only reviews cars and hasn’t driven motorcycles before.
I guess what I’d at the minimum expect is an example like this old 10 year old clip at the 1:21 mark of someone showcasing mouse input on the touchpads, gyro being activated on touch, and then demonstrating it being used to aim at multiple targets and getting forth a lot more information in those 40 seconds than 20 minute long videos to people who hadn’t seen that type of input use before and actually coming across as though they have put in time to be actually proficient at it.