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Leak: Valve is making a Steam Controller 2 and a ‘Roy’ for its Deckard
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this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2024
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Why would they bother making an xbox layout when they've already gone through the effort of making the xbox controllers compatible with games? What advantage would that have over just using an actual xbox controller or one of the numerous generics?
Same could be said for lots of other party controllers that are essentially the same.
Like I have a 8Bitdo Ultimate BT controller, it's essentially an Xbox controller, but it comes with a charging dock and is also compatible with the Switch. It also has hall effect sticks and motion control (for Switch). I preferred the Steam controller's grip over the Xbox controller, on top of the Steam controller having back pedal buttons as well. Plus it comes with a dongle, which has to be bought seperately for the Xbox controller unless you use Bluetooth.
So there are plenty of things that could be done different, ranging from different features to better build quality.