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Unfortunately SCUF managed to acquire a patent for rear buttons, and they successfully defended it in court when Valve put them on the Steam Controller without
by jsheard 2y ago
Unfortunately SCUF managed to acquire a patent for rear buttons, and they successfully defended it in court when Valve put them
on the Steam Controller without licensing it. That means rear buttons are unlikely to come to standard-issue controllers any time soon, only more expensive premium models, since SCUFs cut has to be factored into the price.
- zx8080 2y ago> patent for rear buttons Being not familiar with games joysticks area (a keyboard user) this reads as mad as it can. Feels it's like a minefield. Is there anything from this area left not patented yet?
- mepian 2y agoAt least Nintendo's D-Pad patent expired. All other console manufacturers had to come up with workarounds for a long time, and sometimes they were bad (e.g. the Xbox 360 solid circle D-Pad).