8BitDo Ultimate 2 Wireless Controller Review: Great Hardware Hampered by Steam Input Limitations
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A customer review of the 8BitDo Ultimate 2 Wireless Controller, praising its quality for Windows gaming but noting that Steam does not natively recognize the extra bumpers and back buttons. The reviewer is returning the controller only because a Steam controller became available within the return window, and mentions that the gripes (primarily the extra input mapping issue) would not have been dealbreakers otherwise.
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I only have small gripes with the 8BitDo, and none of those things would have been a dealbreaker if the steam controller hadn't been available so soon.
Steam does not natively recognize the extra bumpers and back buttons and to my knowledge, the only way to assign them is by ma
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