No prices yet. I may never financially recover from this.

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[–] 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

Looks like you'll have to remove the entire bottom shell. From GN's video:

A disassembled Steam Controller with its bottom shell removed and its insides visible.

The shell doesn't seem to have a separately removable battery cover, although I don't see a reason why someone wouldn't be able to just cut a hole or 3D-print an accessible shell. Dbrand comes to mind. Or that's just a show piece and the retail product might have a battery cover.

It also looks like the screw posts don't have threaded metal inserts, which is concerning.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    That is a bit of a shame, I was excited to see the Steam Frame controllers simply use AA batteries.

    I wish more things used those, or maybe some new standard with more energy density. Swapping batteries immediately is one thing I miss from the Wii days...

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