News flash everyone. Valve announced today that it will be re-designing its Steam controller. The Steam controller will no longer support a touch-screen. Instead, Valve will implement a a traditional D-Pad alongside four buttons. Wondering what this new controller will look like? Well, below you can find a picture from a presentation during Valve’s Steam Dev Days that is currently underway. Keep in mind that this is a picture from a prototype WIP model, so the final version may be completely different from what we’re witnessing. What’s your opinion on this new controller? Kudos to Leszek Godlewski for sharing the slide.
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Yeah no
Well the touch screen was kind of useless if you have two mouse pads in your fingers already. Buttons are always welcome.
Don´t like the shape of it but if it is comfortable is all that matters.
Another commenter suggested an analog stick in place of the left touch pad; I’d prefer that for traditionally stick-friendly games.
(Then again, depending on how the pads work and feel, a stick might be unnecessary.)
Agreed. Racing games will be a good indication.
Heck no.
yeah go back to dualshock 3.5 with its crappy thumbsticks. Innacuracy and lack of precision for the win.
Awww, poor DRM drone is mad.
what drm? The only drm pc has is steam, AKA being able to download a game from the other side of the planet 10 years from now and play it without needing the system you bought it on nor the physical copy….and play it OFFLINE.
So much drm here.
Now go pay for a subscription cloud crap to be able to play the old games you BOUGHT on ps2 and ps1.
Pathetic sonytard
You seriously need to stop making so many assumptions. Besides, the controller isn’t great at all and based on the reception so far, there’s much to be improved. Not to mention that it’s just your OPINION that the DS4 is crap.
What assumption, the guy is a well known troll he always posts crap like “lol sony wins” trashes xbox and pc gamers, there are no assumptions here you just dont pay enough attention.
He keeps commenting here “valves heads have gotten steamy: and “as fat as gabe newel”
Yes compared to this, ANY thumbstick based controller IS crap.
In my defense, I never know that he is a troll and I also haven’t seen any evidence that he is a console fanboy. Also, the fact that you consider any thumbstick controller is your damn OPINION. Why do you refuse this? Are you so conceited that you believe your opinion should be accepted as a universal fact?
EDIT: You make many assumptions. Just read over your previous posts.
how exactly can a thumbstick based controller improve control over the years? Be honest dualshock 3 was dualshock 2.5.
Thumbsticks are inncacuare and lack precision, all the improvements in controlling had to do with aim assist small fovs and other tricks, the thumbsticks did not became more accurate.
Here comes an OPINION how about you stop using ancient thumbsticks and look for improvement and innovation in controllers?
I agree that the DS3 was a joke but the DS4 is way improved. The problem is that you just look at one aspect of the controller which is the thumbsticks. You deliberately neglect ergonomics, how it feels etc. Also, the main problem with the steam controller ( which I suspected would occur) is the fact that you don’t get the same resistance that you’d get with a thumbstick controller. The trackpad, while innovative, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s better than a thumbstick controller unless of course you just looking at one aspect ( which you do) of the controller.
Also, a bit off topic but why do you keep on contradicting yourself so much. You called that guy a troll (which I agree) because he goes on articles bashing PC gaming and Xbox. Guess what Dakan, you do the exact same shit. You go on so many articles and bash consoles but when someone else does it, you consider that person a troll? I just don’t get that logic. So in your mind, only you are allowed to bash platforms? Lots of hypocrisy here.
they started it. I enjoyed pissing them off with FACTS.
You talk about ergonomics, yet diffirent cotnrolers may feel diffirent to diffirent sized hands. So if a console has a controller that doest feel good to you, like say the original xbox controller which was huge since it was aimed to older gamers than the small ps2 controller…..You dont have the ability to change it, well you can on pc. I wonder how the steam controller feels. I mean they didnt gave that weird look for no reason right? it has to feel goot to the hands.
But anyway my point remains, why still using thumbsticks? Where is the innovation and improvment? I guess thats how consoles are.
That’s barely any better!
They need to try harder.
I want to try those haptic disk things – as the haptic feedback is great on the Xbox One, but knew they would have to drop the original button configuration. It’s looking more and more like every other controller. So next they drop 4 buttons for a d-pad, ok.
“Day Late, Dollar Short” -Nintendo’s unofficial slogan.
I thought the Touch Screen would bring a lot of use to the controller, Looks kind of ugly now.
Still ugly and crappily impractical as F.
Valve’s heads have gotten freaking steamy.
I like they added precise digital controls (d-pad, buttons) back. Kinda wish they’d make the entire top surface a long touchpad instead of two separate touchpads. I’d also probably change that to, “the entire bottom surface a long touchpad” actually and put the digital controls closer to the top similar to how PS3 controller’s d-pad and 4 buttons in diamond shape are laid out.
Then again, I’d have used a rechargeable battery, too.
I suspect they’ll be changing the overall SHAPE of the controller soon to help remove a lot of the dead space that looks so ugly right now. They’re iterating pretty heavily on this thing atm.
I expect this will wind up far cheaper now than it would have been with a mini-touchscreen and more common because of it.
For anyone who wants a stick on this, well that’d make it a 360 controller and those are already available everywhere. This uses touchpads to help provide more enhanced control for users who can’t/won’t be using a keyboard/mouse with games that often require better than analog stick controls.
The lack of a d-pad and actual buttons, however, would severely reduced the usefulness of the controller in the long run to a select few titles. Too bad they can’t throw in more buttons in the middle somehow.
looks less original, but hey what we all want is precision, can they do that?
They don’t even have the balls to demo the precision.
but they have. There was a video in anouncement clueless console fanboy.
like the idea but hate the design… so fat…
As fat as Gabe Newell.