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.
QuoteWhat do you think? Will you buy one?Probably not.
I generally play games on two devices. On my desktop I use KB/M, PS4 controller or steering wheel, as required by the game; I don't need Deck-style controls there. On the Deck I already have Deck-style controls.
Playing PC games without controller support on the telly (the initial Steam Machines objective) isn't something that I generally do, so I don't need a special controller for that. It's great that this will exist for people that do, of course, and others that don't want to use KB/M for whatever reason.
Maybe as the little one grows split screen PC gaming on the TV will be a thing that happens, and then this kind of controller could find a place here.
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