Steam Controller Demo From Pax Prime With Valve Talking About It

Wired? Seriously? A WIRED controller in 2015? For a livingroom "console-PC"? You got to be kidding me, and kidding me hard. That cable must go. Please tell me this is a prototype or something.


Last edited by Beamboom on 15 September 2015 at 1:28 pm UTC

Quoting: BeamboomWired? Seriously? A WIRED controller in 2015? For a livingroom "console-PC"? You got to be kidding me, and kidding me hard. That cable must go. Please tell me this is a prototype or something.

It works wirelessly, runs off batteries.
When you see controllers/games demonstrated at any sort of press conference or convention, the controllers are usually wired. I guess they just want to make sure they don't run out of battery or avoid interference with the next booth.

EDIT to add: Estimated 5 meters of wireless communications range.


Last edited by ricki42 on 15 September 2015 at 1:36 pm UTC

Yeah I got it confirmed on the GOL IRC channel now. I almost choked my coffe here I sat.

Thanks, man.


Last edited by Beamboom on 15 September 2015 at 1:41 pm UTC

Yeah it's very much wireless don't worry heh.

I'm just really exciting to feel the pads for movement and looking in FPS games, I can't currently get my head around how it would work.

I still see an issue there - the controllers/batteries can not be charged when a wire is attached.

That is kinda annoying, one would have to have rechargeable ones + a charger. Honestly, I know this from friends who have a XBox and call me for gaming, saying something like hey bro, bring a 12 pack of batteries from the store, we're gonna need them.

This actually means that people are not always having chargers or appropriate batteries, hence battery sales go up, but these little things are really not healthy for our environment. So it is a question of mother nature, our money, ..and last but not least it is unconvincing for gamers to have a battery box instead of just plugging that thing in once a session is finished to recharge overnight.

Seriously, I want it built-in into that controller, don't tell me to buy a charger and 2 times the rechargeables, since one pair of these has to be in the gamepad, the other one in the charger to swap them every now and then. That is BS.

@stan

I believe one has the option either to wire it or not

Quoting: miroI still see an issue there - the controllers/batteries can not be charged when a wire is attached.

Hopefully some third party company might do some battery pack for it (The same way the wii had some)

Quoting: ricki42EDIT to add: Estimated 5 meters of wireless communications range.

Is it me or is it a bit short ? Is it 5 meters in an ideal environment and 2-3 meters in real life ?

Still looking forward to it though.

I think this SteamController has a huge potential in e-sport games. Each player can customize its own controller layout. It would not only be about the game techniques, but also about how smart the player customized his controller for, say, a specific street fighter character. Then, as an amateur, you could use the same layout as this e-sport player, or that one...

I see also lots of other use case, but this one just popped in my mind.

Quoting: miroThat is kinda annoying, one would have to have rechargeable ones + a charger. Honestly, I know this from friends who have a XBox and call me for gaming, saying something like hey bro, bring a 12 pack of batteries from the store, we're gonna need them.

From a reddit comment:
I have around 40 hours of gameplay with it and all have 82% battery life left.

If this is true, that's impressive. Even if the 82% are way off and it's 10% left, getting >40 hours is pretty good.

Quoting: GuestOn the contrary, wireless sucks and I’d much prefer if it was wired.

Just attach a micro usb, and the data goes trough there.

Is it just me, or we didn't learn anything new in this video?