Steam Controller Design Finalized, May Be Shown at GDC

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In 2013, Valve 'expanded the universe' with the announcement of 'Steam Machines'. According to themselves at least. The Seattle-based developer wants to take over your living room with its SteamOS, Steam Machines and its special controller. The latter showed some very interesting design choices, featuring two trackpads instead of regular analog sticks. Quite a lot has changed in the meantime and it has been suggested that the final design will be shown very soon.

According to the CEO of Origin PC, the Steam Controller has been finalized and will be shown during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco in March.

"At GDC, they're going to have more information," says Kevin Wasielewski, CEO and Co-Founder of Origin PC. "And we'll be there. That's the official stuff we can say. They came out with the controller, then they got some user feedback, and they had to revamp it; they got some more user feedback and had to revamp it again. So they went through that like three or four times. And now their controller is finalized. So now they're going to production and at GDC is when they're going to announce more stuff."

Since its announcement in 2013, the design has been altered numerous of times, including concepts of touchpads, a d-pad and more. The latest concept leaked in December, and it shows a d-pad, a single touchpad, and an analog stick, apart from the regular buttons.

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As for Valve, they have decided to skip CES, and they also won't host 'Steam Dev Days' this year, and they have stated they will focus on GDC instead. What do you think about Valve's controller? Would you like one?

Sources: Polygon, Gamespot.
 
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Nice work mate, I was about to write up this one myself, but please link your source/sources.
 
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Keep the news coming guys! I do find them very interesting
 
Thanks man! Will add the sources right away :)

EDIT: done ;)

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Cool stuff, so far you have really impressed me with your work, especially given that English is not your first language.

Good thing I didn't start writing this sooner, I was setting up the test system for overclocking.... something.

Thanks man! It means a lot to me :)

That tease though :lol:

Keep the news coming guys! I do find them very interesting

This isn't even my final form :lol:
Nah just kidding, I do really enjoy writing though! Shame school is also claiming a lot of free time :(
 
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Thanks man! It means a lot to me :)

That tease though :lol:



This isn't even my final form :lol:
Nah just kidding, I do really enjoy writing though! Shame school is also claiming a lot of free time :(

Hahahaha, this form only contains 2 percent of my power.

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Just saw it was posted on facebook, thanks a lot y'all! It means a lot to me :)
I'll write some more tomorrow, for now I need to do some reading for school :mellow:
Luckily this year seems to be going like a breeze so far!
 
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