Obligatory: Fuck Polygon since it is now a website owned by people who built their empire on rape
polygon.com/…/valve-steam-controller-lawsuit-scuf… covers the lawsuit.
It was filed in 2015. Valve discontinued the controller at some point between that and when they finally sold out in 2019.
That can mean one of two (main) things:
- Valve was so afraid of the lawsuit that they immediately stopped production and still took 4 years to sell out of their inventory
- Valve didn’t care and continued to produce units up until 2018/2019
Both are fairly plausible because 4 million USD isn’t even what GabeN spends on knives in a given year. Neither paint a picture of the Steam Controller being some wild success.
Because, if it were, they could have just as easily
- Paid a licensing fee to SCUF et al. Which is what I assume 8bitdo, MS, and Sony all do? … Also Valve since the Steam Deck has back paddles too
- Released a revision that got rid of the back paddles
Its great you like it. That doesn’t mean others did.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
The patent troll you’re referring to is SCUD (fuck those guys and fuck their owners, Corsair).
Thankfully, Valve won the appeal in their lawsuit a few years back and the patent is no longer valid. Unfortunately, the damage was already done