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.

  • juipeltje@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    17 hours ago

    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.worldEnglish
      4·
      14 hours ago

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

      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.

      • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        Hey you might be able to help me, how do you find the dualsense for across program gaming? I am finding some issues with emulators and steam input. Was hoping for a catchall, someone already mapped everything file.

      • juipeltje@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        12 hours 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.

  • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    17 hours ago

    Hopefully SDL2 will also get good support. It’s still quite common.

  • Hadriscus@jlai.luEnglish
    43·
    1 day ago

    damn there I am simping for a company again. Promised myself it wouldn’t happen after Sega

    • itkovian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      20 hours ago

      We should acknowledge the good, just as we should call out the bad. It’s not really simping if you point out the good Valve is doing.

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        15 hours ago

        probably should wait and see what the prices are before people start falling to their knees with mouths wide open.