Thursday, October 3, 2013

A new type of controller called Steam Controller

I have presented you in previous articles things like SteamOS and Steam Machines and to make things more fun what better way to enjoy these new features, only by a new controller called Steam Controller. This gamepad is nowhere near to what you have seen before in any controller. It may have the same shape as any other controller but when it comes to interaction it’s totally alien.

This controller supports and will support every game from the Steam catalog. This means it will be supported even by games that did not support the XBOX controller.


Enough said let’s talk about the features. This gamepad features circular dual trackpads. The sensitivity of these trackpads is given by their high resolution but also acting as a giant button. With this you can play any game from strategy games even to racing or simulator games like Euro Truck Simulator 2. But FPS games will get the most of this gamepad. 

They also have a new and superior haptic feedback, so that the user can experience from a game speed, texture or any other information that user should know through trackpads and gamepad. The trackpads can also act as speakers.


Another feature is the touch screen which can allow you to set and invoke special functions including from games also. And there also buttons.

The best part Valve claims that this gamepad is designed to be hackable.  Overall these are interesting features but let’s make a final decision when we will test drive the finished product.

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