Why the Steam Controller is (and isn’t) a big deal

It’s not reductive to telephone it a Steam Deck without the screen. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

Most PC gamers already person a controller they emotion utilizing with Steam - a Sony DualSense, a 8BitDo Ultimate, a Nintendo Switch Pro, oregon thing else. Part of that emotion comes from Steam treating them similar "native" controllers. They tin bash the things that made the archetypal Steam Controller worthy buying. Namely, they connection a level of customizable power ne'er earlier seen connected PC and that you inactive can't get connected a console.

With Steam Input, immoderate of those controllers tin person aggregate power schemes for antithetic crippled scenarios (flight, on-foot, successful menus), and you swap betwixt them with a fastener press. You tin besides make onscreen menus that bloom whe …

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