Valve launches a Steam Controller without a Steam Device

Now, Valve is releasing a Steam Controller without a Steam Machine.

The Steam Controller will be officially launched On sale May 4 1pm ET for $99 USD, $149 CAD, $149 AU, £85 in the UK, and €99 in the EU. We’ve already spent a couple of weeks with the board paired with Steam Decks and gaming desktops, and you can read the reviews One of my colleagues is Jay Peters and Cameron Faulkner now. It’s so cool!

What about Steam machine Console in the living room and Steam frame Headphone? Valve simply says stay tuned. “Right now we don’t have any updates on that, but we’re working hard on it, and we hope to have news soon,” says Valve’s Pierre-Loup Greves. Edge. Previously committed valve Machine and frame shipped this year.

You don’t need a Steam device to use the new Steam Controller. It should work with any PC running Steam, and as a universal controller for phones too. People have been asking for a successor To the classic original Steam controlleror rather the Steam Deck’s controls have been reduced to a gamepad, ever since the Deck came out. some edge Readers are so excited for 2022 When Valve’s hardware team revealed You will enjoy making this dream come true.

now, Jay writes That Steam Controller does pretty much what he hoped it would — he plays Steam Deck on the TV, with a more comfortable pad, which keeps his controller profiles and muscle memory intact.

The delay to other Valve hardware means that our Steam Controller reviews feel a bit incomplete. We weren’t able to test how well the Steam Controller works with the Steam Machine’s custom controller antenna, or how well the VR controller works with the Steam Frame. (The controller is a visible object in VR thanks to built-in infrared LEDs that the headset’s cameras can track.)

But we like what we see, and we got some additional tidbits of information from Valve as well:

Finally, if you’re wondering if you should You will be able to purchase a Steam Deck Again, Greaves says Valve is “working hard to try to address this,” but it’s a challenge because “the world is a different place than it was last year.”