Was it good?

It's a flop like the steam deck,steam link and nearly any hardware valve releases

Why is it concave?

Literally every piece of Valve hardware flops. Why do they even still bother trying to make it? All they have to do is keep Steam running and they’ll be making a profit forever.

it was and it was a shame that the lawsuit prevented them from keep making it

No, I actually owned one while it had some nifty uses it was clear that the thing was made as cheaply as possible

Can it use kbm controls for coop with an actual kbm user?

its one of the few great things valve have done in the last decade. risky innovative hardware. very precise gyro and haptics. also allows you to make up insanely complicated chorded controls which i love. honestly to be commercially successful at all would have needed a team in-house developing control schemes for all the n most popular games on steam. it's tiresome to have to watch tens of minutes of youtubes to figure out what options are possble. i don't use it that often. but i respect it. i bet it's great for like rts games

They only were discontinued because of patent trolling

I bought this plus the device that was supposed to connect to my tv to play steam games. Shit was laggy as hell and now it’s collecting dust in my closet.

Amazing actually. Its the best controller for 3rd person action games.

This controller + Fightstick is the best combo

My complaint is the lack of dual analog sticks because I want a fucking crazy game 3D bullet hell where left analog stick is to move, right is to aim where you move (up down left and right) and the gyro is to aim.

>gyro and haptics
Lol the steam controller wasn't even the first to have those features.

No it sucks dick. My test was "can I play Kotor with this." Keep in mind that that game is way more convenient to play on a mouse and keyboard than a normal controller. The result of the test was that you can do it but it sucks dick which is why I gave the opinion above.

So far I only used mine to play Puzzle Agents.
A mouse would have been easier but I wanted to use it for something.

It felt pretty cheap and it was too hung up on classic controller layouts.
It had some pretty good ideas but the downsides meant that the controller overall didn't feel that great to use.
Maybe the next iteration will be a split controller since those are better anyway and they've gotten some actual iterations into their VR controllers.

>failed
>because it got patent trolled
>because patent was rewarded to some idiots even if there were prior examples of back-facing buttons
>because American patents are shit

It was a solution looking for a problem.

of course. those features date back to the 70s at least

Played Elden Ring on mine and I can't go back to regular controllers for souls games
Currently replaying sekiro with it and its fantastic

Nerral has a video on it
youtube.com/watch?v=5dsL1wgu2e8

What do you do with it?

Sell it on eBay for $140

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The best controller for playing visual novels. The worst controller for everything else.

I'd say yes but it got dicked over by that patent troll and it needed better support among popular games to establish a base. A bit cumbersome for people looking to plug n play but amazing if you took a few minutes to customize the controls.

The right track pad feels way better for camera use than a thumbstick
I also map the roll/dodge button to the right paddle for souls game so no claw grip anymore.
Twinstick shooters feel amazing too.
Only 2 downsides
-dpad is dogshit. But I have an M30 genesis knockoff controller and a fightstick for games thst need dpads or 8 way inputs
-doesnt work with emulators so can't play ps2 kino with it

I bought one because I needed a controller and it seemed like a better value than an Xbox controller.
It was a pretty good purchase because the ability to customize deadzones, response curves and everything so easily made certain things possible that otherwise wouldn't have been.
I don't find the trackpads any easier to aim with than a thumbstick though. Gyro aiming is helpful though.
It's a good controller, but I might like it more if it had a right thumbstick.

Considering how no one talks about it anymore, probably not.

>doesnt work with emulators
It should, don't have mine anymore so I can't check, but iirc it behaves like a keyboard when running it with an emu

Yes, I use mine for every game.

Remember when they were selling them for $5. I got one still sealed

Technically yes but the game would also need to be multi-kbm-aware, most of them just treat any keyboard and mouse as one.
There was a shmup called Jamestown with local coop for up to 4 players on the same PC that recognized individual keyboards and mice but it's the only game I've ever seen to do that.

they were five dollars but i was a broke neet
i wouldve bought the equivalent of a ds4 or xbones controller worth because controllers are fucking expensive and this isn't too bad

It’s funny how twitter trannies still defend it. Notice a pattern?

Ill try because I REALLY want to play some wrath of heaven after this Sekino playthrough

If it was profitable valve could have made a deal

It does but it requires some setting up first.
It has extremely basic mouse and keyboard emulation when Steam isn't running, pretty much just enough to start up Steam.
If it is running then you can map a "desktop configuration" in Steam's controller settings where you can make it act as a gamepad instead of the default kbm when Steam is running, but not in-game.
Alternatively I think you can add the emulator as a non-steam game and then give it a unique mapping.
There are also mappers that work outside steam like SC Controller, but the point is that you always need to have something to provide mappings for it because it doesn't have an internal memory to save them to.

yes everything on v is reddit and trannies now shut the fuck up

Thanks man I'm going to try this

the dpad isn't too great for platformers but i've found the stick to be great for it, it's very well configured and tight

I'm using it now for Elden Ring. It's weird. I wish the buttons were placed further right. The game recognizes it as an Xbox controller, so I don't think I can configure the back paddles. I wish I could, as right now it's configured to LP as X and RP as A, which is dumb.

did the Steam Link really fail? I only now realized it was meant to bridge your PC to your TV without needing to stream via wifi. Now that I figured out I could play Silent Hill 2 PC on my living room TV through Steam, I wish I had bought one.

This controller is great for using the pc to watch movies and shit while laying in bed with your attractive (female[male]) gf, so of course Yea Forums doesnt use it much

I still use mine. It's not good for 2D games and it's got some layout issues, but overall it's a great controller and the track pads and gyro were a game changer for camera control and aiming. Nintendo finally convinced people that gyro-assisted aiming is good with BOTW and the Switch, but it's even better when combined with the touch pads on the Steam controller.

What we need is a Steam Controller 2.0. Valve learned a lot and if they basically just took the controls of the Steam Deck and made it into a controller, I think you'd have an excellent controller capable of playing almost any genre perfectly.

Holy shit, take your fucking meds.

Most of it's supposed good ideas where already in other controllers. So there wasn't much of a need for it

Yeah only sold 500k. Steam discontinued it. Not looking bright for the deck in that way

Like?

It's a shame. Their stuff seems to be pretty good quality, but it just never works out.

It was and I'm pissed mine broke.
I didn't see anything wrong with the trackpad, however the DPad sometimes felt finnicky.

You can still buy them used.

>patent trolled specifically to sink the steam controller
>when the patent holder really has very little to stand on
>when they're just now reviewing the obvious fact that the patent shouldn't have been given in the first place
Yeah probably not

>gyro
Already in nintendo controllers at the time
>haptic feedback
Already in most controller's by the time Valve got to it to PC gamers.
Only real advances were back buttons(not even the first controller) and
the touchpad with feedback