'Millimeters matter:' Making the Steam Controller 'just work'
… No Steam Deck, no Steam Controller Yang said that many design decisions behind the Steam Controller were essentially "solved" by the Steam Deck. …
There are three major reasons why players might soon be purchasing a Steam Controller. First, they're gearing up for the release of the Steam Machine, which will work with the Controller on day one. Second, they might want a controller that lets them play with their Steam Deck docked on a TV (Yang pointed out this was a small gap in the Steam Deck design experience that was only addressable with third-party Bluetooth controllers before this). And third, it would be because they want to access the wide range of custom controller configurations already in use on the Steam Deck. These configurat
'Millimeters matter:' Making the Steam Controller 'just work'… No Steam Deck, no Steam Controller Yang said that many design decisions behind the Steam Controller were essentially "solved" by the Steam Deck. …
… What we heard—tales of cutscenes not appearing on Steam Deck despite working fine on PC, to having to deal with the peculiarities of multi-platform releases—showed video codecs present a bigger problem than they should, and are needlessly hampering the art of game development. …