Yeah no kidding I forgot about Grooveshark, shame that's gone

I've heard others saying this is like discord too, but I wouldn't really say it's quite like that. With the major server providers participating in the federation most posts will inevitably be visible in most places

I get where you're coming from, though I do wonder if sony doesn't have a patent on that, in which case a non-functioning feature that would increase cost isn't great either, especially if it might not be used.

Most PC gaming is relying on Xbox's standard and well, much as I wish they'd add something nice sometimes, they haven't really put anything notably new into their spec since the 360, so probably nothing soon.

Valve can make their own spec, yes, but they've done that with steam input already, and very few games have taken advantage of it, dunno maybe the deck might wake some devs up probably still mostly indies though. The few that did mostly just added named input events and nothing more, nothing fancy for touch pads, or custom icons for touch/radial menus, these are all things they can do, but very, very rarely seen, and usually not even by AAA games (except for a few basic steam input events anyway)

Props to those that did use them, though. Much as I was not a fan of Magicka 2's way to select elements on a pad, the way to handle aiming on the touch pad was very nice.

I think the problem there is the size, it works on deck with the screen, but without it, getting that much in a reasonable space is rough.

It would also fix the problems with people not realizing it's an enthusiast control expecting it to work out of the box with no config work. Which would help a lot. But I still want that touch pad tooooo

Yep, TouchPad is great for mouse gaming on a thumb. Would seem weird if you were thinking of using a finger on it on a laptop but thumb with the pad grip on it on the sc is nice

They do but if there aren't games to set it up I don't think it's going to do so hot like on ps5.