Steam gamers get another official controller, five years after the last one

PC players preferring gamepads to console-and-mouse have a variety of peripherals supported inside Steam, from PlayStation 4 to Xbox Collection X. The officially official Wireless Horipad for Steam, nonetheless, makes use of twin analog sticks as a substitute of the bizarre contact pads that the unique Steam Controller employed.

The unique Steam Controller, bundled with the lengthy misplaced Steam Machine and Steam Hyperlink streaming {hardware}, was discontinued in 2019. It was famous for having two trackpads as a substitute of dual analog joysticks. Some discovered this association extra fluid and intuitive, others have been delay by having to study what was mainly a brand new management format.

Hori’s official Steam controller is available in a extra conventional format, with ergonomically offset thumbsticks, a four-way directionl pad to the decrease proper of the left thumb, and a conventional X-Y-A-B face button mapping, plus shoulder buttons and analog triggers.

All of that is remapabble, in fact, however for console video video games that additionally launch on Steam, Hori is providing an out-of the field resolution that performs like a PlayStation or Xbox with no fuss.

There are one other 4 customized buttons that may be assigned a number of features, whether or not that’s capturing a screenshot or gameplay, or one thing else. The “Steam button” within the center, resembling the Xbox and PlayStation buttons on the heart of these consoles’ devoted controller, will deliver up Steam’s Massive Image Mode.

When does the brand new Steam controller come out?

From there, gamers are in a position to customise and remap the controller to their preferences, as any PC gamer would count on. To be clear, Hori’s Wi-fi Horipad for Steam doesn’t have any trackpads — nor does it have any vibration/rumble functionality, or a headphone jack.

The Wi-fi Horipad will launch by the tip of the October, and price about $50 when it does go dwell. It’l are available in 4 colours: white, black, blue, and yellow.