u/Elting — Elting

You are allowed to reserve another as soon as your first one ships. The limit is 1 at a time not one permanently.

You can program the left trackpad/dpad on the original to input stick controls.

TIL

So many people seem turned off by the lack of the second stick, but I always hated looking around with a right stick anyways lol. The trackpads were not by any means as good as using a mouse, but I found them more useable in most situations than a second stick. Also I have a tendency towards platformers which don't even utilize more than one.

They have done a lot to develop the market for couch PC gaming in the last 10 years. It was kinda novel back when they first started going for it.

They really did not market this thing half as well as their new one. I wonder if the lackluster demand of the past misinformed their expectations for the launch. It was also kinda cheap, it still works but the thumb pad long since disintegrated and the paddle flaps are gummy and the plastic feels brittle.

Yeah they have their uses. I'm glad they relocated them to the bottom of the controller though, as they aren't quite useful enough to be at the center. I'm curious if the new one will have the same comfort level as the old one.

As an owner of the original I find the track pads to be pretty meh. Theyre equally as good as any track pad, so not great. What I like and cant understand why isn't universal are the paddleflaps/buttons on the back. The closest anything has ever gotten is the Z button on the n64 controller.