One of the funnier features included with Valve’s upcoming Steam Controller is its ping feature. If you can’t find your Steam Controller, you can use Steam to ping the controller, making it vibrate and produce a noise. That’s not funny, it’s useful, especially if this controller is going to be sitting in a living room near remote-eating couches. But what is funny is that when you ping the controller, it makes an old phone-ringing noise. This greatly amused me, and I made the controller ring many times. So I had to ask Valve about it. “Engineer Rich [Karstens] thought it was a good noise and fu
Why Valve's New $100 Controller Rings Like A Phone, Lacks A 3.5 Jack, And Isn’t Called The Steam Controller 2 - Kotaku… Valve told Kotaku it wanted the Steam Controller to contain all of the input options found on the Steam Deck. And it does. That means if you play Steam Deck games using a specific layout, it will just work on the Steam Controller. That’s the motto of the Steam Controller: It just works. …
… The Switch 2 outputs 4K at 60Hz through the adapter, while the original Switch and Switch OLED only support up to 1080p. Beyond the Nintendo lineup, the Purbhe adapter also works with the Steam Deck, ROG Ally, Legion Go, Samsung Galaxy phones with DeX support, and iPads or Macs with USB-C ports. …
… It runs at a refresh rate of up to 144Hz so you can handle high frame rates in your games with low input lag. It’s even got HDR support to display deep blacks and vibrant color side by side. …
… One last note, P2CE doesn’t play super nicely with Steam Input at the moment, and some players report issues on Steam Deck. That said… Portal 2 is great on Steam Deck The original version of Portal 2 , released 15 years ago, works wonderfully on the Steam Deck. …
… You might have noticed some of the recent updates we’ve made to the Steam Store itself have already been making it more gamepad-friendly, and we’re just going to continue doing that throughout the rest of Steam.” Valve also wants to make sure that features of Steam that have become more popular sin… …