I've preordered it. I have a few hori controllers. Some are worse than others. Even though its design is pretty much identical to their switch controller, I honestly want to give it a try. My goto controllers lately have been the PS5 controller and the Gamsir g7 se. I have been playing everything recently on Bazzite so it's been fun to try out different controllers for different games.

This is cool and all, but no rumble is kind of a deal breaker for me

Without all the features that actually made the Steam Controller great... yeah

You're still better off with something from 8Bit-do at that price. If they included trackpads and vibration it would've been a nice Steam Controller v2.

Cool, I like the capacitive sticks, but not what I’m waiting for. I want a Steam controller 2 that’s a Deck without the touchscreen. Anything less and I’m not really interested

I still regularly use my original Steam Controller -- for the trackpads. It allows me to do M+KB strategy gaming from the couch.

This lacks the killer feature, IMHO, given that I can use any of a wide variety of regular Bluetooth controllers for stuff with controller support.

It looked good, but the gyro is apparently awful and the trigger travel is basically non-existent.

I want one with trackpads

I don't care about rumble vibration, but the missing trackpads is huge. The trackpads from the Steam Deck are game changing. At least one would be good to have, so I can program it with additional functionalities or custom menus in Steam. I probably still end up buying it to replace the Xbox Series S controller, as the Hori has gyro integrated, has touch sensors on the sticks and has back pedals.

My hope is, this controller will be sold through Steam, as it is officially licensed.

A shame it doesn't have hall effect thumbsticks (and vibration), but more quality controllers I will not shake a stick at.

Fuck yes no rumble to remove. Definitely looking into this. Fuck rumble imo

Touch capacitance on the stick is a gyro-must for me, so im happy to finally see a controller with this. actually just ordered this from amazon japan, didnt think it would actually get a US release.

While I'd like it to have rumble and trackpads, I pre-ordered one (to Canada).

I just want the xbox button layout with proper motion controls, which it seems like this delivers on, and with a bonus of actual back buttons (that can be mapped in Steam, unlike when controllers emulate Xbox or switch controllers)

DoA without rumble.

I didn't know rumble was such a popular feature. It's one of the first things I turn off in every game.

Some good news today 🙏

When can I use my Steamdeck as a controller? I will literally settle for that level of stupidness if we can’t have controller v2.

Aside: happy to see that it has some form of back paddles - but If Steam will allow them to be configured is another issue I’ve encountered.

Anyone know how good Hori's d-pad is?

if i didn't have a billion Stadia controllers i might.