• Ive actually considered posting about this before, there’s been several leaks leading up to this suggesting that two new controllers were in development. Basically there are some people who closely monitor files uploaded to steam, and sometimes assets and files are visible publicly for a short time. The guy who’s a source on this has accurately leaked stuff before, and it’s my belief we can trust him on this.

      • Yeah, but its still rumor. A leak would be some evidence we can confirm. I’m aware of the rumors and talks about controllers and the Deckard. But so far, nothing can be confirmed as a leak. – Edit: Okay its not that simple. I’ve researched a bit about the definition and yeah, this is probably just my personal interpretation. So sorry about that.

  •  DualPad   ( @DualPad@lemmy.one ) 
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    I’m the minority that wishes the controller would have the same layout for the touchpads with it being large, circular, concave, and in the same upper positions.

    I use dual touchpads on the Steam Controller to play games like Doom Eternal, Left 4 Dead 2, Spin Rhythm XD, The Finals, etc.

    But, on the Deck I did not find the touchpad good for those games due to the shape, size, and placement so it turned out as being as useful as the dualsense with it becoming more a joystick controller than a touchpad controller I wanted to use in the same way I use the Steam Controller. Been hoping for years for a proper Steam Controller with upgraded gyro and 2 additional grips, but looks like it’ll never happen even if Valve came out with a new controller when it comes to a dual touchpad controller I want to use. Would be more a xbox/sony controller alternative.

    • Yes! The steam controller was legitimately incredible for first person games. The combination of left joystick and right touchpad was incredible once you got used to it.

      I love my steam deck, but I was really disappointed with the touchpads… they are just too small too really use for much of anything other than menus. As a result, I really only play 2d games, since I hate 2-stick controls…

  • In particular I want the two joysticks the steam deck has! Touchpads + joysticks NOT one or the other. If the steam controller came out with that and back buttons it would set a new standard and decisively reorient how people think about gamepads with respect to complex pc games.

    If it just has two touchpads or two joysticks it really isn’t an evolutionary step up, more of a lateral step that improves precision (unless you include gyro… which the next steam controller needs to have).

    I know this seems like an esoteric point but in my experience steam deck layouts for complex games all rely on the steam deck having 4 xy input devices.

    The next steam controller should prioritize this scheme of the four basic inputs + triggers and buttons to help precipitate the concept in peoples minds that a steam style gamepad has two joysticks and two touchpads.

    Longterm establishing this control “standard” as a noun in the collective minds of indie and strategy game fans and developers is by far the most important thing a new steam deck controller could do.

    If an indie developer can buy a relatively inexpensive steam controller and physically test out and make some steam deck bindings for their game…they are that much more likey too.

    Indie game devs provide the afterburners and linux gaming is assured a strong future!

    Suddenly the limitations of sticking to a proprietary (in some ways) slow moving ecosystem of consoles start to look radically more confining in comparison because the difference became tactile and immediately tangible.