Placed my order for the new one yesterday and I was curious. I bought the old one for 35 bucks at a discount. They must have had surplus stock in 2016 lol.
Placed my order for the new one yesterday and I was curious. I bought the old one for 35 bucks at a discount. They must have had surplus stock in 2016 lol.
I don’t think marketing was the problem, the lack of joysticks was a problem though for many.
PC gaming/Steam seems to be a lot more popular today than it was in 2015. Back then we didn’t have the scalper problem as bad as we have now either. Everybody I knew back then was using an xbox 360 wired controller, which I still think was one of the best controllers ever.
Now that every game page on steam shows controller support and the deck exists we’ve had a ton of focus on good or at least mostly functional controller controls in loads of games which never would have had it in the past.
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.