Steam Hardware

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A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.

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Valve is so behind on Steam Controller orders that some won’t ship until 2027 (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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[–] Madnessx9@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Honestly would love one of these controllers but a limiting factor for me is how universal it can be, a friend nabbed one on preorder says you can only really use it on steam with limited support outside of steam. Got one of those gamesir pros instead, same price, no wait, universal usable on pc

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Without steam it defaults to doing a combination of keyboard and mouse inputs, meant to let people use a desktop. Idea is you could boot up computer, and then be able to navigate the computer to launch steam/etc.

You do have options for playing games from outside of steam:

add games as a non-steam game to steam, allows managing inputs/etc.
any games that use SDL will have native steam controller support (many emulators etc)
software like Steamless controller (windows) or SISR (windows or linux) allow you to use the controller outside of steam, allowing different levels of input customization.

edit: removed sc-controller because it's apparently not updated for the new steam controller yet

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

What else do you want to use it for? For me the coolest feature is the ability to play mouse games on a couch. For other consoles I think either 1st party controller or a good 8bido would defeat steam controller despite it being really awesome