Valve's Next-Gen Steam Machine and Steam Controller — the Big Interview

Steam Machine is back, and with it comes a caller Steam Controller! Valve made a fig of breathtaking hardware announcements today, and up of the large reveal, IGN took a travel to Valve’s office successful Bellevue, Washington, to interrogation bundle technologist Pierre-Loup Griffais and hardware technologist Yazan Aldehayyat to find retired everything we could astir some next-gen devices (we’ve besides got a abstracted interrogation connected the Steam Frame close here!).

Read connected to find retired wherefore Valve has decided present is the close clip to spell with caller hardware, who the caller Steam Machine and Steam Controller are for, and however it's keeping everything affordable.

The next-gen Steam Machine

IGN: So you're announcing a caller Steam Machine, but this isn't the archetypal clip Steam Machines person existed. The archetypal iterations of Steam Machines were not commercially successful. They were wide regarded wrong the nationalist sphere arsenic a failure. What made you revisit the signifier factor?

Pierre-Loup Griffais: That's a bully question. I deliberation for america betwixt having shipped a Steam Deck and having made a batch of advancement connected crippled catalog compatibility with processing Proton and each that, it felt similar it was the close time. We had done a clump of antithetic shaped PCs backmost successful the time and we worked with third-parties. It told america a batch astir what was moving good with the acquisition of getting into your crippled and getting the PC acquisition into the surviving room. We were beauteous blessed with however that went. But the process by which crippled developers had to bash immoderate enactment to larboard their games over, we looked backmost astatine that and it didn't look similar the close model.

So we started moving connected Proton and made a batch of improvements determination to effort and get to the constituent wherever games would conscionable tally without needing immoderate of that other work, oregon if immoderate enactment was needed, we wanted that enactment to beryllium additive to the experience. So erstwhile folks bash immoderate enactment to get to the Steam Deck verified stage, it's usually enactment that either improves substance legibility connected smaller displays oregon is going to marque the crippled tally amended connected little extremity PCs. Stuff that helps everyone.

We deliberation we came acold capable on with our enactment connected the OS and the compatibility layer, and determination has been capable of that enactment connected the crippled developer broadside to get each those games moving well, that it conscionable felt similar the close time. It felt similar we could conscionable person a truly bully merchandise astatine this constituent successful time. It was beauteous natural.

Yazan Aldehayyat: Yeah, I deliberation successful a batch of ways the Steam Deck proved that to us, similar the reception that we got from Steam Deck, radical evidently emotion the portability and the handheld signifier factor, but 1 of the large pieces of feedback we got was that they besides conscionable emotion SteamOS and the convenience of SteamOS. And truthful getting that feedback fundamentally proved to america that we yet person the pieces needed to marque the archetypal imaginativeness of SteamOS a reality, if that makes sense.

IGN: Now that there's going to beryllium 4 products that officially enactment SteamOS, are determination plans to marque SteamOS much wide disposable beyond a effort astatine your ain hazard benignant of exemplary the mode it is now?

Pierre-Loup Griffais: Yeah, successful information to immoderate grade that's already the lawsuit today. We've seen enthusiasts successful the community, some folks with existing products similar different handhelds, but besides radical bringing their ain PCs, really get immoderate measurement of occurrence installing SteamOS from the Steam Deck betterment image. Because we've been continually expanding hardware enactment truthful that you would person a amended accidental of success. So I deliberation to immoderate grade that's already happening.

But definitely, conscionable similar Steam Deck paved the mode for SteamOS connected a assortment of third-party handhelds, we expect that a Steam Machine volition pave the mode for SteamOS connected a clump of antithetic machines successful either akin signifier factors, antithetic perf envelopes, antithetic segments of the marketplace and get to a bully result there. We decidedly privation to promote radical to effort it retired connected their ain hardware, and we'll beryllium moving connected expanding hardware availability implicit clip arsenic well, oregon hardware enactment for the drivers and the basal operating system. Just past week we fixed thing that was preventing america from booting connected the precise latest AMD CPU platforms. Last period we added enactment for the Intel Lunar Lake platforms. We're perpetually conscionable adding enactment and improving show and we privation it to beryllium astatine the constituent wherever astatine immoderate constituent you tin instal it connected immoderate PC, but there's inactive a ton of enactment to bash there.

IGN: So for the existent Steam Machine, present that it's determination successful summation to the Steam Deck, however volition you pass show levels and however they disagree betwixt the 2 systems?

Pierre-Loup Griffais: The Steam Machine is besides going to person a verified program. Our intent is that if you're utilizing the Steam Machine and the controller together, you person fundamentally the aforesaid acquisition arsenic the Steam Deck, wherever the Steam Store guides you to games that we cognize from investigating that each portion of the crippled volition beryllium playable with close acceptable performance, but besides each dialogue, each diagnostic of the crippled volition beryllium accessible with the controls that you person astatine your disposal.

In fact, a batch of those trial criteria volition beryllium communal betwixt Steam Deck and Steam Machine due to the fact that things similar SteamOS compatibility, immoderate benignant of Proton bugs that could beryllium causing immoderate issues successful the experience, volition beryllium communal crossed those platforms. But things similar show volition beryllium tested individually per product, and truthful we'll beryllium capable to archer you if a caller crippled that comes retired connected Steam that mightiness not needfully beryllium a large acquisition connected Steam Deck is going to beryllium playable connected Steam Machine.

Yazan Aldehayyat: So conscionable to clarify, there'll beryllium abstracted badges, truthful it volition beryllium wide whether this is simply a Steam Deck verified oregon Steam Machine verified, et cetera.

IGN: Can you speech astir however the Steam Machine is positing itself arsenic the much approachable PC gaming machine, and a batch of the things that went into designing some the hardware itself and however you've modified oregon improved SeamOS to coincide with the thought of this being the casual happening to fig retired and use?

Yazan Aldehayyat: Yeah. Our eventual extremity is to marque the process of playing your games arsenic casual arsenic possible, and there's a batch of ways we did that. So evidently the archetypal happening is conscionable marque it faster to get backmost into your games. We heard a batch of bully feedback connected the accelerated suspend/resume from Steam Deck. Steam Machine has that arsenic well, truthful you're capable to intermission your games and travel backmost adjacent days aboriginal and fundamentally leap close backmost precisely wherever you were. But we besides added thing wherever the bundle bits, similar the OS and the games and the unreality syncs, updates successful the inheritance for you, truthful the crippled is ever acceptable to play whenever you travel backmost to it. That's thing that we privation to bash with Steam Deck arsenic well. It's conscionable with Steam Deck, fixed it’s a battery-powered instrumentality it's a small spot much challenging. We don't privation it to beryllium burning a batch of powerfulness successful suspend mode. It’s a small spot easier connected Steam Machine since it's ever plugged in. Steam Deck Verified is besides a bully illustration of that, truthful radical cognize whether the crippled is going to tally without having to bash a clump of research, et cetera. Your carousel is ever showing you the past crippled you played.

So truly there's a taxable present of, however bash we get you playing arsenic accelerated arsenic possible? We spell done the full process and destruct each those friction points. Another 1 really is the CEC support. So Steam Machine besides tin aftermath up your TV and your soundbar and acceptable each those channels for you conscionable by a azygous fastener press, again to get you playing, not discarded immoderate precious clip you person for gaming and conscionable get you determination playing arsenic accelerated arsenic possible.

Pierre-Loup Griffais: Of people each the elements from Steam Deck and the wide SteamOS acquisition are there, truthful you don't person to update drivers. Everything's ever acceptable for you to play. There's nary third-party bundle required, you tin conscionable get straight into your games.

One happening that we're doing arsenic good is you person tools from extracurricular the crippled to power performance, truthful you tin power the interior solution and the outer solution of the games from the operating system. So if you privation to alteration the show level, you tin easy bash that from convenient knobs wrong the Steam UI settings, and besides the aforesaid speedy entree paper with each the show settings, framerate bounds and each that stuff, exists successful SteamOS conscionable successful the aforesaid way.

Something that happened soon aft Steam Deck released was that a batch of games started detecting that they were moving connected Steam Deck to prime precisely the close default settings for an acquisition that the crippled developer considered balanced, which is simply a beauteous tiny magnitude of enactment for a crippled developer. We expect the aforesaid happening volition hap with Steam Machine, and we'll beryllium providing APIs successful Steamworks truthful that crippled developers tin observe what level they're moving connected to beryllium capable to person the close magnitude of elaborate settings and that corresponds to the balanced acquisition that they person successful mind.

Yazan Aldehayyat: We decidedly privation the default acquisition to beryllium arsenic casual and friction-free arsenic possible, but we besides emotion tinkering. We're tinkerers ourselves. We decidedly marque definite that the Steam Machine is designed with that successful mind. You perfectly bash not person to, you don't person to bash anything, you tin conscionable play your games, but if you would similar to mod and tinker and bash each that benignant of stuff, we decidedly privation to enactment you and marque definite you besides person a bully acquisition that mode too.

IGN: Speaking of the system, evidently there's a wide scope of casual hardware disposable that you tin physique a strategy retired of. Why did you prime the GPU you picked and wherefore did you prime the CPU you picked erstwhile determination are cheaper options oregon much almighty options?

Yazan Aldehayyat: We arrived astatine this successful a assortment of ways. We conscionable triangulated our mode via antithetic directions. The mandate that we had was, you request to beryllium capable to play each crippled connected Steam oregon astatine slightest person capable show to play each crippled connected Steam astatine 4K 60 hertz erstwhile utilizing upscaling. And truthful that was the important thing, due to the fact that we didn't privation radical to interest astir whether their Steam Machine supports immoderate crippled they're playing. We conscionable wanted it to beryllium a beauteous elemental connection that yes, if it's connected Steam, this instrumentality volition person capable show to play astatine these settings. But we evidently besides wanted to marque the instrumentality affordable. We recognize that affordability is truly important, truthful we kept that successful caput and made definite that's a instrumentality that's going to beryllium reachable for a batch of people.

And different portion of accusation that we ever had disposable is the Steam hardware survey. So we tin fundamentally look astatine everybody's devices, we recognize what the mean show looks similar for people, we recognize wherever the Steam Machine is going to beryllium positioned comparative to those. We deliberation that the Steam Machine is going to beryllium adjacent oregon amended perf than the bulk of radical connected Steam. So fundamentally we deliberation it's going to beryllium a bully upgrade way for a batch of people, particularly radical who are connected older machines; a truly easy, elemental mode to get much show and get backmost into PC gaming.

IGN: So connected affordability, what benignant of considerations bash you person to person to marque an affordable gaming PC / console close present erstwhile everything's getting much costly lately?

Yazan Aldehayyat: If you're trying to marque a PC that has akin features and akin performance, I deliberation the Steam Machine is going to beryllium a truly competitory terms to that and supply truly bully worth to it. The affordability portion you mentioned is 1 of the reasons wherefore we deliberation a Steam Machine makes a batch of consciousness close now. So it's conscionable thing that we thought astir each clip we made a hardware decision, a diagnostic decision, is to marque definite that we support it arsenic approachable, arsenic affordable arsenic possible.

IGN: When you're reasoning astir not conscionable specs but besides talking astir it being casual for radical to leap into, you're doing 1 hardware spec for the Steam Machine. So speech a small spot astir the thought down that and besides the information that you'll person 2 retention options and that's benignant of it. How did you get astatine that?

Pierre-Loup Griffais: It's truly the aforesaid thought arsenic the Steam Deck. It was truly important to america that the level of show and acquisition that you get is the aforesaid crossed the board, truthful that it's elemental for developers to people and it's elemental for users to prime what level they privation to use. We deliberation it'd beryllium not a extremity for a batch of antithetic show options to beryllium and for the archetypal measurement to beryllium for a idiosyncratic to person to fig retired what tin tally connected what, right?

And truthful conscionable similar Steam Deck, each azygous Steam Deck has the aforesaid level of show and tin tally each the games connected Steam and each the games that are Steam Deck verified, it was truly important to america that adjacent conscionable the archetypal process of figuring retired a Steam Machine is simply a merchandise for you wasn't already laced successful a clump of antithetic choices based connected what games you person to permission down oregon different choices similar that. So I deliberation the unified show spec is really a spot of the merchandise offering there. And similarly, we expect that's going to person bully broadside effects erstwhile developers are doing that enactment that we mentioned to tune the graphical settings, due to the fact that they'll beryllium capable to conscionable absorption connected 1 spec.

IGN: You mentioned the Steam Deck, and that’s aging a small bit. Are determination immoderate plans to upgrade that successful a akin way?

Pierre-Loup Griffais: Obviously the Steam Deck's not our absorption today, but the aforesaid things we've said successful the past wherever we're truly funny to enactment connected what's adjacent for Steam Deck… the happening we're making definite of is that it's a worthwhile capable show upgrade to marque consciousness arsenic a standalone product. We're not funny successful getting to a constituent wherever it's 20 oregon 30 oregon adjacent 50% much show astatine the aforesaid artillery life. We privation thing a small spot much demarcated than that. So we've been moving backmost from silicon advancements and architectural improvements, and I deliberation we person a beauteous bully thought of what the adjacent mentation of Steam Deck is going to be, but close present there's nary offerings successful that landscape, successful the SOC landscape, that we deliberation would genuinely beryllium a next-gen show Steam Deck.

IGN: Can you archer maine a small spot much astir the information you person successful presumption of radical utilizing their Steam Deck docked, and however that feeds into the transportation of the Steam Machine?

Pierre-Loup Griffais: Yeah, it's decidedly informed immoderate of our decisions astir Steam Machine. Obviously Steam Machine is thing we've been reasoning astir for a while, and similar you pointed out, we've been astatine it for rather a spot longer than the Steam Deck. It's been astatine the backmost of our minds. But successful presumption of the Steam Deck docked experience, we get a batch of feedback conscionable organically from users talking betwixt themselves connected treatment forums oregon conscionable doing crippled reviews that are happening connected Steam Deck and different things, and we've seen a batch of feedback saying that the acquisition astir getting successful and retired of crippled and however it's connecting to the TV, each that was moving truly good. They conscionable wished that they had a small spot much crispness and graphics horsepower to enactment with. And truthful that decidedly helped america dial the close level of show to get there.

But it besides informed things similar the Steam Controller, due to the fact that we got the feedback that folks that were moving backmost from a docked Deck, were sometimes missing immoderate of the inputs they needed to play the aforesaid games that they could play successful handheld mode, which informed improvement of the Steam Controller arsenic well. We don't person a ton of elaborate information connected what's happening with the Steam Deck successful real-time, but we person things similar the Steam hardware survey. And erstwhile we look astatine that, it's betwixt 10 and 15% of Steam Decks astatine immoderate fixed clip are connected to an outer display. So that's astir what we're looking astatine successful presumption of docked use, which for america is encouraging capable that we deliberation a merchandise similar the Steam Machine makes consciousness arsenic well.

Yazan Aldehayyat: But it's besides much than conscionable the numbers truly for us. It's similar the information that truthful galore radical are opting for that experience, it conscionable proves that the bundle acquisition is already bully capable that radical are opting into it. So it's truly much astir proving to ourselves that yes, the acquisition is already truly good, we conscionable person to marque it adjacent better, propulsion it implicit the enactment and present it to those people. That's what is truthful important to america astir the Steam Deck docked experience. It's conscionable the impervious of beingness of the full SteamOS being acceptable to beryllium played connected the large surface basically.

IGN: The next-gen Xbox is going to beryllium a gaming PC alternatively than conscionable a console, it's going to beryllium moving Windows. Do you spot gaming PCs being wherever consoles are evolving into, and is this benignant of similar you’re a portion of that?

Pierre-Loup Griffais: When we deliberation astir what to enactment connected adjacent and moving connected things similar Steam Machine and stuff, we're typically not looking astatine consoles oregon different products successful that direction. Everything we bash is informed by what's happening connected the PC gaming broadside of things. Of people determination ends up being rather a spot of overlap due to the fact that we’re doing a clump of worldly that helps PC gaming enactment amended successful the surviving country and that's traditionally wherever consoles person been. But truly I would accidental that astir of our reasoning is not informed by what's happening connected the console side, and truthful I don't cognize if we person galore theories arsenic to wherever that mightiness beryllium headed. But successful wide it seems similar radical look to beryllium recognizing that there's rather a spot of worth successful a much PC-like acquisition and the customizability and each that, and truthful we're blessed to spot much of these elements being embraced by platforms successful general.

Yazan Aldehayyat: As acold arsenic we're acrophobic the Steam Machine is simply a PC, truthful that delineation is not there. In our view, the Steam Machine is conscionable 1 enactment successful the ecosystem of gaming PCs retired there. If you're already blessed with your PC gaming experience, that's great. We emotion that. We are a PC gaming company. We're conscionable trying to springiness you much options. And that's however we presumption it. It's conscionable thing that we deliberation is simply a truly large summation to a surviving country oregon a desktop, but it's conscionable 1 different enactment that radical tin person disposable to them to play their Steam games basically.

The next-gen Steam Controller

IGN: Can you tally down the doctrine of making a caller controller and immoderate of the features you needed to battalion into it to brace with a Steam Machine?

Pierre-Loup Griffais: The pairing with Steam Machine, it’s a beardown pairing. The acquisition is bully erstwhile you person each the controls that you request to play each the games connected PC, and you tin navigate done launcher screens and you tin easy bash everything that you request to bash conscionable similar you could on, say, the Deck touchscreen oregon with the way pads and truthful on. So for definite we deliberation it's portion of that experience.

But for us, the Steam Controller, the scope of it is simply a small spot larger than that. Just similar the archetypal Steam Controller was a large peripheral if you're conscionable sitting astatine your table and conscionable wanted to thin backmost and play games that were made for a rodent and keyboard, I deliberation there's a batch of radical connected a desktop PC that volition get large usage from the caller Steam Controller arsenic well. Because you mightiness beryllium playing games that are controller enabled, but present you're capable to alt-tab to your desktop and interact with it successful ways that you couldn't really, astatine slightest not arsenic comfortably with different controllers.

And similarly, there's a batch of distant play usage cases wherever you mightiness bask the other inputs oregon conscionable being capable to conscionable person higher show aiming and responsiveness. So I deliberation for us, a adjacent procreation Steam Controller that not lone was capable to play each the games connected PC but besides had the approachability of a regular controller is thing we had been reasoning about. We did it successful a Deck, and for america that truly showed that it was possible, conscionable the aforesaid arsenic a batch of these different things that we've discussed astir Steam Machine and each that. And truthful it was the close clip to marque it standalone. But decidedly the controller, I deliberation large pairing with Steam Machine, but besides with a docked Deck, a desktop PC and truly thing that runs Steam, we expect that determination mightiness beryllium a crushed that idiosyncratic would privation to usage the caller Steam Controller with it.

IGN: Could you tally down immoderate of the cardinal features of the Steam Controller for those who whitethorn beryllium looking astatine this and saying, good I already person a gamepad oregon I retrieve the aged Steam Controller, wherefore would I usage this?

Pierre-Loup Griffais: For idiosyncratic that's truly utilized to gamepad and has a batch of acquisition with a accepted gamepad, the Steam Controller has each of the aforesaid controls successful each of the aforesaid acquainted places, but successful summation it has precocious quality, adjacent procreation magnetic thumb sticks that connection superior consciousness and bully show implicit clip and tiny dormant zones. In summation to that, it has 4 grip buttons that you tin usage to use, for example, A, B, X, Y portion you're inactive aiming with a instrumentality truthful you tin reload portion sprinting, and you don't person to usage claw grip if you're playing a Soulslike. There's a batch of advantages that are instantly there, adjacent if you're conscionable utilizing it similar a accepted controller.

But past successful summation to that, we person things similar our caller haptics feedback that is present capable to besides bash rumble successful precise precocious definition. So we're beauteous excited astir that. We deliberation it's an advancement successful feedback and rumble. We person the way pads that are capable to augment your aiming acquisition and beryllium much comparable to keyboard and mouse. You person the afloat powerfulness of Steam input. You person a batch of macro buttons. You tin person a 16-way paper connected the near way pad that displays on-screen that lets you play a PC crippled that has tons of hotkeys, for example. So there's a batch of other things there.

And of people question controls is thing that we've been exploring and processing since the aboriginal days of the archetypal Steam Controller, and we person a batch of features successful the caller Steam Controller. Not lone are the thumb sticks capacitive, truthful they observe erstwhile they're touched, truthful are the way pads and truthful are the caller grip sensors connected the backmost of the controller. All of those tin beryllium utilized to seamlessly toggle question controls connected and off, which lets you bash ratcheting and purpose correcting successful a mode that isn't truly determination erstwhile you lone person the gyro, but nary casual mode to toggle it, oregon if you person to usage 1 of the main buttons connected your controller to toggle it, it's rather a spot of a antithetic experience.

So I deliberation each of these things together, there's a batch of antithetic reasons, similar everything connected PC. I deliberation each idiosyncratic volition person 1 of these reasons that possibly they're utilizing the controller for, oregon they volition find caller ones we haven't adjacent thought of. But I deliberation that's it astatine a glimpse

Yazan Aldehayyat: The wireless connectivity connected Steam Controller erstwhile utilized with the puck is astir apt champion successful class. It’s truly good, ace debased latency, truly fast, truly responsive, and beauteous robust done a assortment of wireless experiences, and you tin usage it for charging magnetically truly easily. So that's different happening that we deliberation is truly chill astir the Steam Controller.

IGN: Tell maine a small spot much astir your wireless exertion and what benignant of show radical tin expect from it.

Yazan Aldehayyat: We are fundamentally utilizing a 2.4 gigahertz protocol. It's a proprietary protocol. Basically what we did is to benignant of simplify it and region arsenic overmuch of the overhead arsenic we can. The closest analogous happening would astir apt beryllium Bluetooth, which is besides 2.4. But for us, due to the fact that we power some the transmitter broadside and the receiver broadside and we fundamentally person a azygous usage oregon azygous profile, we tin marque it arsenic thin and arsenic elemental arsenic imaginable and region arsenic overmuch overhead arsenic we can, truthful that you're transmitting the minimum fig of packets imaginable arsenic accelerated arsenic possible.

Pierre-Loup Griffais: I deliberation our existent existent satellite latency numbers that we're showing is similar 8 milliseconds, which we see champion successful class. I deliberation it's truly precocious show there. But much importantly, compared to Bluetooth wherever the latency gets doubled each clip you adhd a controller, our show remains accordant adjacent with up to 4 controllers per puck, and past you tin adhd much pucks if you want. So we're truly arrogant of being capable to support that 8 millisecond effectual latency adjacent with aggregate controllers. And truthful that's what the wireless puck protocol is each about.

The Steam UI lets you re-pair a puck. And 1 of the absorbing things astir that is, accidental you bargain the Steam Machine positive Steam Controller bundle, you're going to person a puck successful that bundle and the Steam Machine already includes the receiver successful it. So past it opens immoderate absorbing options, similar the 1 we're demoing present wherever you person the puck by the sofa and you tin conscionable usage it similar a charging presumption portion the controller's connected wirelessly. But what I expect a clump of radical volition bash is they'll link the puck to their desktop machine and the pairing accusation volition beryllium connected both, and you'll conscionable beryllium capable to seamlessly power the controller betwixt your Steam Machine and the desktop PC you mightiness person without needing to spell into immoderate UI oregon reprogram anything.

IGN: Another large question is astir artillery life. Do you person estimates connected however agelong it's going to past disconnected a afloat charge, and however bash you equilibrium that with each the exertion that you're packing?

Pierre-Loup Griffais: Yeah, the artillery beingness was ever a precise important part. Even for the archetypal Steam Controller, I deliberation conscionable similar Yazan was talking astir with fund and pricing for Steam Machine, powerfulness usage is precise overmuch thing that you person to support successful caput passim the improvement cycle. So each clip we're reasoning astir firmware, caller features, what benignant of sensors are on, we're ever reasoning astir powerfulness usage. That was 1 of the factors that made america prime this peculiar magnetic stick, due to the fact that the powerfulness usage was besides precise conducive to having a precocious artillery life. I deliberation we're saying 35 hours.

Yazan Aldehayyat: Yeah, it evidently is going to beryllium importantly connected what you're doing, right? Like the haptic motors bash devour a batch of power. But we deliberation the 35 hours would correspond a beauteous blimpish estimate. That would astir apt see a batch of haptic and way pad use. If you don't usage those, you’ll astir apt get importantly much than that arsenic well. We deliberation 35 hours is simply a beauteous large spot to beryllium and we deliberation astir radical get much than that.

IGN: How casual is it to customize each these antithetic features with the SteamOS backend?

Pierre-Loup Griffais: It's arsenic casual arsenic you privation it to be. So by default, we expect that radical volition conscionable person a bully acquisition retired of the container due to the fact that of each the enactment we've done connected Steam input. The developers tin acceptable a Steam input template. The assemblage tin lend to a batch of configurations. A batch of folks volition ne'er person to spell heavy into the menus and alteration anything. And the template that volition beryllium selected by default oregon different basal configuration that they prime volition bash what they privation retired of the box. But for folks that privation to customize that, there's a batch of menus you tin get into to customize each facet of the experience. Every binding slot could beryllium remapped to immoderate keyboard oregon rodent oregon controller binding. Every sensitivity, effect curves, haptic feedback mounting tin beryllium configured connected beauteous overmuch each azygous facet of the controller.

So if you're trying to customize things, reverse things near to right, if you're trying to usage a southbound paw, if you're trying to person a multi-step trigger with antithetic bindings, with antithetic levels of haptic feedback, if you're trying to beryllium programmable and person the controller power modes based connected what mode the crippled is in, you tin bash each that. And that full ecosystem has existed for 10-plus years astatine this point. So there's a immense array of features that are being utilized by enthusiasts to make configurations that folks that are not enthusiasts tin conscionable devour and past they're bully to spell retired of the box. So we're beauteous excited.

IGN: For the Valve Index and for the Steam Deck, determination person been games enactment retired to amusement what those devices tin do. Can we expect a 3rd mentation of that?

Pierre-Loup Griffais: I judge that we're tweaking [Aperture] Hand Lab to enactment connected the controller. We're reasoning astir it. We had a bully tutorial for the Steam Deck and evidently the Steam Controller has a batch of the aforesaid controls, truthful we're looking astatine doing that. I deliberation close present there's 1 surface successful that acquisition that you utilized a touchscreen oregon something, truthful we conscionable request to tweak that, but we expect that's astir apt going to beryllium what we have.

IGN: So nary caller crippled that's getting enactment retired with it?

Pierre-Loup Griffais: We person nary plans for that close now.

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