Steam Controller

I doubt they will, considering that the steam controller doesn’t get any firmware updates that require changes it doesn’t really need any significant amount of maintenance to keep supporting, its unlikely that valve would have any reason to even discontinue it fully unless they ever make some major

Steam Machines turned into Steam Deck and SteamOS. Steam Controller built the controller API Steam uses, not to mention facilitated the creation of thousands of controller profiles that Steam Deck relies on to make KB&M games work with a controller. Index is on life support sure, but it's supported

Apart from all the technical differences mentioned in the other reply, their software solutions also get regularly flagged as potentionally malicious or harmful. Whether that's real or just a digital signature issue, I'd be happy to pay $20-30 more just for the peace of mind of having a guaranteed s

Steam Controller: Native Steam Input ofc Can be played 2.5hz (if you manage to get one with a dongle), BT and wired Works great on Windows 10/11 and Linux 175hz polling rate Needs AAs Not having a D-pad or 2 sticks may be a problem for some Discontinued

... The steam controller works well tbh. Since it also has track pads, and buttons similar to the steam deck. I fact, I think its only missing two back padel buttons compared to the deck. The track pads on it allow for usage as a dpad, joystick, or mouse setup while docked even. The only issue is up

I vaguely understand where you're going, I'm not a shooter guy, which I didn't catch onto at first, at least not solely. That said, everything you have issue with is software side, not even hardware related. Of course default configs are going to remain consistently wrong with new hardware. And I gu