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Steam Deck

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It's not the clearest photo, but it clearly has both 2 thumb sticks and 2 track pads.

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[โ€“] woelkchen@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I fear that, just like the Steam Deck's controller, it won't be usable without Steam running. IMO by default and without any special "driver" running in the background, the sticks and buttons should just behave like a Xbox controller.

[โ€“] hikaru755@lemmy.world 12 points 4 hours ago

The original Steam controller worked without Steam running, even including some of the extra features like mouse and scrolling functions for the trackpads if you wanted it to. So here's hoping