Kirk Hamilton

If you look around on YouTube, you will find no shortage of reviews of people who have really tested this thing out because it is a kind of deceptively simple piece of hardware.

It's actually quite complex.

There's a lot that you can do with it.

I really like the Steam Controller.

I think it's very, very cool.

That shouldn't come as a surprise.

Anyone listening to this show will know I love the Steam Deck, and I love the controls on the Steam Deck in particular, the way that the Steam Deck allows you to reprogram and reimagine the controls for any game.

There are two touchpads on the front, which are also on the Steam Controller, and Valve has created a software overlay Steam Input that allows for really...

complex and you know you can really get deep on designing you know multi-touch options and building macros in and using the combination keyboard and controller like it's an incredible software interface built to support this hardware so i really like it and that shouldn't come as a surprise but um i figured i'd talk about it a little bit just because i've been using it and it's new and exciting

So yeah, to explain it to people who have never seen a Steam controller or a Steam Deck or anything, it feels basically like a PlayStation controller.

It has the parallel thumbsticks, two triggers, shoulder buttons, face buttons, the usual.

And then it has two trackpads, these little square trackpads that are below the thumbsticks that you can slide your thumbs down onto.

And it has four underbuttons, which are four little buttons you press with your middle and ring fingers on each hand.

No wonder you love it.

It has four underbuttons.

I love it, man.

Well, the older I get, the more I watch out for my thumbs, man, and jamming my thumbs on face buttons.

The main game I've been playing with this is Diablo 4, and I like to play that game with a controller, but I have all of my face button abilities mapped to those under buttons.

It's so much better for my hands.

I really feel like it's a real health thing for me more than fluidity with gameplay or anything.