The Steam Deck’s best button is its software
by Jay Peters from The Verge - All Posts on (#60Y30)
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Steam Deck has a lot of buttons. There's a D-pad, all the typical face buttons, two control sticks that also respond to capacitive touch and can be pushed down like buttons, two trackpads with haptic feedback that are also pressure-sensitive buttons, two shoulder bumpers, two analog shoulder triggers, and four buttons on the back of the device behind the grips.
Somehow, they all feel like they're exactly in the right place while you're holding the device, and in writing the latest in our long-running Button of the Month series, you might think that I'd wax poetic about just one of them. But for me, the true magic of the Steam Deck is that any button can be the awesome button, thanks to the device's excellent software.
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