GDC 2016: Nacon reckons it’s made the world’s first eSports-ready controller

By Hugh Langley

Any serious eSports player will tell you that if you’re not playing with a keyboard and mouse, you’re not playing.

In games like Counter-Strike, hairline accuracy isn’t just an advantage, but a necessity – especially with hundreds of thousand of dollars prize money at stake – which is why even the pro controllers usually just don’t cut it.

Nacon reckons it’s made the first controller that eSports players will be able to use and not be at a disadvantage against someone using a keyboard and mouse setup.

The gamepad was built with the help of French pro gamer Norman “Genius” Chatrier, and if you haven’t already noticed, looks very much like the Xbox One Elite controller. Nacon’s is PC-only, but that’s where it wants to be, and it reckons its offering is both more precise and more customisable than Microsoft’s.

While neither the software nor hardware is final, we saw that the current customisation settings are vast, including options to adjust sensitivity, dead zones, button mapping and the joystick response curve.

Nacon says the right stick has an amplitude of 46 degree compared to the normal 38, and there are weights …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming