News Hori announces official Valve-licensed Steam Controller — launches on Halloween in four colors

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Hori releases officially-licensed Steam Controller successor, which mixes some features of the Deck controller with a modern gamepad shell.

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[rluker5]

Valve makes fairly high quality hardware. I don't like the first steam controller since I could never get used to the tracpads, but this one looks easy to pick up and play.
I like the extra buttons and don't expect issues like some other extra button controllers I've used. If Valve doesn't have some light software to assign them on non Steam games (most of my library is on Steam but not all) I'd probably dig out Xpadder.

I hope they come out in the US.

 

[ivan_vy]

Valve makes fairly high quality hardware. I don't like the first steam controller since I could never get used to the tracpads, but this one looks easy to pick up and play.
I like the extra buttons and don't expect issues like some other extra button controllers I've used. If Valve doesn't have some light software to assign them on non Steam games (most of my library is on Steam but not all) I'd probably dig out Xpadder.

I hope they come out in the US.

first steam controller was very hard to get use it, tried to please everyone by being a half step between K+M and a controller.

 

[TheSecondPower]

Is it really a Steam controller without a trackpad? Some PC games don't really work well from your couch without them.

 

[moparhippy420]

Hori is just a cheap 3rd party controller company, similar to madkatz. These aint made by valve, they are just licensing the name. They might end up "ok", but i just dont see the advantage of ANY 3rd party controller over just using an xbox or playstation controller. These 3rd party controllers are useable "passable" at best or hot garbage at worse, with the exception of 8bitdos products. For the price you can just get official sony or microsoft controllers and know what you are getting.

 

[Pierce2623]

Hori is just a cheap 3rd party controller company, similar to madkatz. These aint made by valve, they are just licensing the name. They might end up "ok", but i just dont see the advantage of ANY 3rd party controller over just using an xbox or playstation controller. These 3rd party controllers are useable "passable" at best or hot garbage at worse, with the exception of 8bitdos products. For the price you can just get official sony or microsoft controllers and know what you are getting.

Hori actually makes good products. They generally don’t sell cheap garbage controllers like madcatz.

 

[TheyCallMeContra]

Hori is just a cheap 3rd party controller company, similar to madkatz. These aint made by valve, they are just licensing the name. They might end up "ok", but i just dont see the advantage of ANY 3rd party controller over just using an xbox or playstation controller. These 3rd party controllers are useable "passable" at best or hot garbage at worse, with the exception of 8bitdos products. For the price you can just get official sony or microsoft controllers and know what you are getting.

What @Pierce2623 said. Hori are quite a reputable controller provider, actually. I know quite a few IRL fighting game tournament players who swear by those controllers. MadCatz is actually kinda tacky, tbf, but it's hardly the PS1 MadCatz era anymore— and modern 1st party controllers are even more expensive now! You can't be such a console fanboy that you really think only 1st party PS/XB controllers are acceptable, especially on PC.

I also never claimed Valve made these, but Valve doesn't just hand out its license to use Steam branding willy-nilly. For that matter the Hori Steam controller also carries over key features from Deck those controllers don't have, like touch-sensitive analogs to toggle gyro controls.

edit: actually I just noticed the last-minute 8bitdo shilling. 8bitdo is good for sure but hardly a reason to start throwing every other controller provider in the trash, lmao. absolutely no reason for you to be slandering Hori to elevate 8bitdo.