Left hand steam controller and mouse

[Frostphorus]

Keyboards were not designed for gaming. WASD is a really poor ergonomic solution. Valve seems like the perfect hardware provider to solve this problem.

Valve should make a new steam controller designed to be used in the left hand in combination with a mouse. Joystick is a much more fluid movement control method, and if you provide a solution with all of the nessesary buttons and functions It could really be a game changer.

[Start_Running]

Isn't the steam controller already symmetrical and fully configurable?

[Gwarsbane]

No its not symmetrical, left has a thumb controller right has thumb buttons.

As for making one thats for lefties, not going to happen, just not enough money in it for them. Just look at all the left handed gaming mice that are out there.... oh right there are pretty much none out there.

There are a couple that are symmetrical, but they are not that great. All the good gaming mice are designed for the right hand.



And no this is not a righty talking smack, I'm a lefty. I grew up in a day and age where there was no left handed mice or controllers at all. I adapted cause all my friends were righties. I've asked gaming companies in the past for left handed versions of their hardware, but they said there was just not enough demand to make it worth the cost.

So sadly, you are more then likely going to have to adapt.

There is or at least was one controller out there somewhere which I can't for the life of me remember the name of it, and it had interchangeable buttons and sticks. And you could actually switch their places too to make it for a lefty. But I don't believe its being made now.

[Washell]

Ten percent of people are lefties and half of those learned to use the right hand, probably more than half among gamers. The market isn't big enough to earn back the cost of a lefthanded production run.