Last week at Gamescom, I purchased an early unit of the Byowave Proteus Accessibility controller. Some teething issues aside, there’s a really promising controller here, mostly caveatted by price.

Update – Byowave have reached out to me and confirmed that they are offering free replacements in October for all Proteus Controller units sold at Gamescom, as well as allowing those impacted to keep their Gamescom units. The bugs I experienced were ones the creators hoped could be fixed with a firmware update, but are actually hardware issues.

In addition, Byowave have clarified that, while the person at Gamescom who sold me one described it as a “dev kit”, that was apparently in error, and is not language which should have been used.

I was made aware of this shortly before publishing, but on too short notice to redo the impressions piece. The Impressions piece represents the understanding I had as a paying customer several days after leaving the event, both in terms of how the controller was described to me, and my impressions as a paying customer dissapointed with bug communication within a week of purchase.

Edited by Jane Aerith Magnet-Dale.

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