u/SpiritedViolinist444 — reddlx

Image from norton resurgance website. [OC]

After looking at the specs, marketing and some reviews, the success of this bike is going to be challenging.

They are positioning it as a user friendly, road friendly superbike. I do not think it is road friendly enough and I do not mean indian context. Initially I thought it would be closer to sport tourers like kawasaki h2sx. The midrange focused engine is not enough. It is has an aggresive rider triangle with short wheelbase and sporty steering geometry. It also has a very small fuel tank.

Personally if I was in a fortunate position to get a superbike, I would get the more extreme, desirable one like the panigale v4. The 2 things going for the manx r is the competitive pricing and the design but is that enough?

What do you think? Would you buy the norton manx r?

Full disclosure: I have no experience with steam deck and steam controller but I have been racking my brains over this and love to hear other people thoughts about this.

When you already have gyro support which is more intuitive positional input, using the touchpad seems pointless. In the steam deck it made some sense because it is inconvenient to use gyro in a heavy handheld. It makes little to no sense on the steam controller.

Using it as extra button inputs or macro inputs seems very niche since you already have 4 extra macro inputs. Also your thumb already engages with quite a bit of input(4 face buttons, 2 joysticks and a Dpad), adding the touchpad as more input makes little sense.

Adding the touchpad makes the controller less ergonomic as well. Someone can tell me if the touchpad haptics is worth it. I think it is pretty niche.

Only silver lining I can see is that the touchpad is useful for people with mobility disability that makes it difficult to use gyro.

At the end of the day I do not think the touchpad is bad, it is just not worth it.

Edit: thank you all for the reply. It gained a lot of insight from the comments. It seems I was just thinking of it as an additional input. It is actually a great alternate input to sticks and buttons and what valve is doing is giving us options.