Steam Controller

But on the Steam Deck, because the screen is smaller, every now and then I'm like, "That's not actually quite where I wanted to go." But since I'm playing the game as it is not intended to be played, I'm much more forgiving of that and am like, "Maddie, you should just be saving more because you've made a decision to play the game in a way that it is not intended to be played on a smaller screen."

Can I just say shout-out to this game running on the Steam Controller? Because the Steam...

I wouldn't think that a game like this would do so well with a controller, but on the Steam Controller, it's fantastic.

I've been playing on the Steam Controller on my desktop too, and, uh, it feels great.

Yeah, I've, I've, r- I liked playing, um, XCOM with a controller actually, even though this game is certainly great with a mouse and keyboard and I think has been primarily designed to be played that way.

And I didn't know this.

It's $1,000 to as much as $1350.

Um, that does come with a Steam Controller at the $1350 price.

Very important.

But if we go back to my Lenovo costs, $1350 isn't actually so bad.

Mm

... or a Lenovo.

Um, the Steam Controller is an interesting one.

So I, the last time I was on here, I talked about the original Steam Controller, right?

Which, speaking of controllers, that will come up in a debate as one of the greatest Nintendo controllers ever.

the way bird so yeah i just wanted to show that off on the stream oh yeah and if you remember we love controllers it was a couple episodes ago our our episode was about or at least the way we tagged it on on the download was the steam controller chris do you have an update on that one it's still been rocking out for you

probably my preferred way to play on pc now i would say

no more xbox controller hooking up or anything

like

that

it was it was a little weird uh for uh one of the games we're gonna talk about because it was on game pass so i had to use the 360 elite well whatever xbox elite controller that i have you know really yeah steam steam controller only works with uh games on steam that's literally it yeah so yeah it was like this is similar but weird you know because for about three weeks straight i've been just using the steam controller

so john uh to your point I do want to, I don't know why.

It's true.

And I also got a Steam Controller.

I am excited to hear about this.

Yeah, I got I got my preorder came up and they gave me my window.

Yeah.

Um, but I did have some fuss getting it all put together.

Uh, I, I finally, I was looking for something that I was like, what could I not play on a controller before that I can now play because I have a steam controller.

Uh, and I settled on painkiller black edition, uh, which is a first person shooter by people can fly.

Yeah.

Steam Machine is V2 of the Steam Machine, and Steam Controller is a V2 itself.

I think Steam, a new Steam Link that's an Arm handheld can be a V2 of what the Steam Link used to be, because we don't need a dongle anymore or, or a, like, puck that we connect to our TV.

We don't really need that today.

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Uh, the controls work great too on the Steam Controller.

Yeah, when I saw this in the library, I was like, ooh.

I'm like, Moss? That's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

... advantage of the... 'Cause that was the other part of this on the developer side, they're gonna make it easier for devs to natively implement DLSS 4.5 into these games, and you won't have to use the NVIDIA app with override to be able to turn on some of these features.

So, and that's the other thing too, the games that don't natively support it that you're using override to do, sure, you're gonna get some improvement there.

But if it's native and baked in, it's gonna be even better.

That's why, like you bring up 007, I remember at GDC I got to see it in action in, in a, in a, in a demo I was in, but it wasn't available at launch, so we didn't g- obviously didn't get to see it when we were playing it during review.

Yeah

... using that.

So they're bringing support to the Steam Machine for GeForce NOW, as well as Steam Controller support.

So, and I have a Steam Controller, so I'm, I'm definitely looking forward to, uh, taking advantage of that.