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Valve Already Upstreams Support For The New Steam Controller To SDL3 (www.phoronix.com)
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Just hours ago Valve announced the new Steam Controller along with the Steam Frame VR headset and new Steam Machine. While these new Steam hardware products won't be available until early 2026, Valve has just-now upstreamed support for the new Steam Controller to the SDL3 library.

The Simple DirectMedia Library (SDL) is important to Valve's Steam runtime and used by many games for cross-platform hardware/software abstractions. In ensuring good support ahead of the new Steam Controller's retail availability and seeing that it makes it into the next SDL3 update, today that new Steam Controller support is already upstreamed to SDL Git.

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[–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I guess with the steamdeck's touchpads in mind this design makes sense, but damn does that thing look bulky lol. Maybe it feels more comfortable to hold than it looks.

[–] OrgunDonor@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I dont think it looks that bulky at all to be fair. It looks like a PS5 controller, but on the stand I have.

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I think it looks like it will be the most comfortable and usable controller I will own, cause I love the PS5 controller, and I love the steam deck. This is the best combination of that.

[–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah i just watched the LTT video and it doesn't actually look that bad when he's holding it. I'll probably be sticking to my PS5 controller since i don't really have a good reason to buy another one. Now that i think of it, i remember initially being sceptical about the PS4 and 5 controllers as well when they came out, but i always ended up preferring the newer design. PS4 controller felt uncomfortable after using the PS5 controller, and the same thing happened going from 3 to 4.

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