I liked the original but thought the inclusion an analog stick but not a dpad was strange. I much prefer this new look at except maybe would’ve preferred the touch pad zones to be circular, but I understand and appreciate the consistency between the steam deck and this new controller. I’m hoping it far capacitive sticks for enabling gyro, that’s the biggest thing I wish other controllers had.

I use the Steam Controller still for games like Doom Eternal, Left 4 Dead 2, Spin Rhythm XD, The Finals, etc.

Basically any first or third person game that has aiming, but I am not sold on the Deck touchpads as primary inputs. Tried it and didn’t like it. Found them uncomfortable, size too small, and shape resulting in inconsistent swipes as someone who likes to target a consistent 180 on an edge to edge swipe.

So it will be a good controller for dual joystick users who occasionally want to use the touchpads, but not a good follow up to Steam Controller users who wanted a new controller to use the touchpads for a majority of their games.

Two analog sticks are a good improvement. That’s my main gripe with the original. That said I don’t know how I feel about this one. It looks like they took the two sides of the steam deck and mashed them together. I don’t know if that works in a controller format.

They are great for some games, especially ones that were designed to be played with a mouse. I prefer other controllers for games that were designed for controller though

The touchpads felt inconsistent to me, compared to sticks. Otherwise not much difference to a normal controller.