Hell or go one further and don't even attach them together. It would be a great HOTAS like experience for space games.

Same

Been there... Done that... until I didn't. Then, I got a GameSir Super Nova. I'm super happy with it :)

I never really used mine much, but it was solid and innovative...I should dig it back out and mess around with it again...

It was the only controller I could ever play first person games with!

Track-ball mode on the right TouchPad is just... chefs-kiss

I love my steam deck but I'm extremely disappointed by the TouchPads compared to the steam controller

And which titles will support that?

I really dig what they did with the touchpads on the Steam Deck, and something like that, complete with the fully comprehensive mapping and input scheme system on the Steam Deck, would probably get me to buy one even though I am very happy with my XBox Elite 2 controller.

Just like a steamdeck without the screen. The trackpads are irreplaceable

Because the Steam Deck is my all-time favorite controller. A controller that’s just like it but without the bulkiness would only make it better

Because PC controllers these days are nothing but different variants of the same Xbox and Playstation controllers. The Steam controller is different from the rest of them, at least.

None have additional buttons on the back that can be mapped as new buttons, they're all just rebinding existing buttons. Steam deck is pretty special in that regard. I would REALLY like to have those four extra buttons available for couch PC gaming.

Because nobody's making something like the Steam Controller 1, but better, which is what a SC2 would be, one assumes

If someone else were to make one I'm sure people would cream their jeans if they weren't bespoke and expensive

Because they're all shit, each current controller has some kind of downside when wanting to configure it for games.

Either Steam input doesn't recognise extra buttons, or the ones that do have issues with being Bluetooth only.

I've tried the vader 3 which was great, but unrecognised so needed extra software to remap for each game which was never as simple as steam input and required me to use a mouse and keyboard which isn't great with a htpc setup.

And then recently I've tried the horipad for steam, this is almost perfect except for only two back paddles, the face buttons being weirdly shaped so the some of them stick when pressing them and the Bluetooth is shitty.

If steam input allowed the full use of generic controllers instead of ones that have been explicitly set up, I'd have no issues, I'd be able to find the one for me. But because they don't do that, I'm waiting for the steam controller 2 because a full layout just like the steam deck would be the dream.

Damn what are you doing that's destroying these controllers? I have controllers from Microsoft and Nintendo that are over a decade old at this point and still work with regular use.