$60, has capacitive joysticks, gyro, steam menu buttons, and 4 extra buttons. Fully supported in Steam Input.

However, no track pads or vibration.

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12x more than I paid for the real Steam Controller and only a fraction of the features. Was hoping it would be priced more affordably

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Real steam controller needs more buttons and another joystick though. When many games are designed around a standard controller, the steam controller can be awkward to use.

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I’ve preordered it. I have a few hori controllers. Some are worse than others. Even though its design is pretty much identical to their switch controller, I honestly want to give it a try. My goto controllers lately have been the PS5 controller and the Gamsir g7 se. I have been playing everything recently on Bazzite so it’s been fun to try out different controllers for different games.

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This is cool and all, but no rumble is kind of a deal breaker for me

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Yeah, I was totally on board till I got to that part. What an absurd exclusion :/

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Yeah. When the early PS3 controllers did it everyone agreed it was stupid and eventually they made the DualShock 3.

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Go figure. I usually turn rumble off.

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yeah i don’t see why excluding rumble would be a deal breaker. is it an immersion thing?

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Same. I’ve got multiple 8bitdo products and I was still considering one, but no rumble is just weird.

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Without all the features that actually made the Steam Controller great… yeah

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I don’t understand how they got the official steam brand name, it’s just a mid-end controller with some major features missing.

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They probably pay lots of money for it

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Cool, I like the capacitive sticks, but not what I’m waiting for. I want a Steam controller 2 that’s a Deck without the touchscreen. Anything less and I’m not really interested

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I’d like it kinda like the PlayStation controller with the pad in the center.

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Now that you mention it, is there a way to make the pad work on the steam deck in those controllers?

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The DualSense touchpad is detected and can be configured in steam input if you have it enabled for the controller

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