Valve did a bit of a woops here, as they recently accidentally leaked the designs for what looks like their upcoming Steam Controller 2 and a new VR controller that is likely to come with the long leaked Deckard VR headset.
This is all speculation as always from leaks, as what we've seen might not even get released. As we saw from the Steam Deck, Valve go through a lot of iterations on their hardware before release.
Spotted by SteamDB developer Pavel Djundik on Bluesky, the newer Steam Controller 2 looks like everything I wanted. Here's a slightly upscaled version of what they found for what's code-named Ibex.
Looks rather nice, and I'm really happy to see dual thumbsticks and thumbpads, much more like the Steam Deck. Clearly Valve have taken notes about how much people love the inputs on the Steam Deck. My only concern there is how thick it looks, so it will be very interesting to eventually get my hands on it to see how it feels.
According to Djundik on Bluesky, here's how the leak happened:
The way it leaked is funny, [they] put "freetodownload" on the SteamVR app for anonymous accounts to access, which made all the depots accessible, and one of the depots was the contents for deckard/roy.
What do you think? Will you buy one?
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
mattaraxia about 3 hours ago
Probably an improvement, the touchpad on the dualsense isn't really useful except when navigating menus completely outside of anything like a game.
But beggars can't be choosers, so I accept this as it is.
Just increase distribution channels Valve, because I paid a arm and a leg trough Amazon to get the original SC while outside the US.
Vortex_Acherontic about 3 hours ago
I guess if someone know than it is Liam
Last edited by Vortex_Acherontic on 27 November 2024 at 8:25 pm UTC
Quoting: tmtvlAs a person with massive elongated fingers and hands which are mirror images of each other, I love both how chunky it looks and it being symmetric. If it shows up on the store tomorrow I'll buy two.Hey, my hands are also mirror images of each other! What are the odds?
chickenb00 about 3 hours ago
Quoting: chickenb00I pass: the trackpads do not have prime real estate where your thumbs will naturally rest on the controller.
Why do you rest your fingers anywhere? I have mine on the sticks or the buttons the whole time.
Quoting: kuhpunktQuoting: chickenb00I pass: the trackpads do not have prime real estate where your thumbs will naturally rest on the controller.
Why do you rest your fingers anywhere? I have mine on the sticks or the buttons the whole time.
Right, he wants his thumbs on the track pads the whole time. Would be awesome if they let you swap everything around like the Thustmaster controller.
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