When Valve announces the first type of wolf controller in 2015, it triggered so little anticipation of new inventions that in the long run the disappointment of the players who bought it would, if possible, be even greater when they received unpleasant controls and did not meet expectations.
Instead of having a standard design that uses a PC controller, Steam Controller is offered two impulses for haptic response that basically didn't balance when playing non-"hypocritical" games. So bad is the opinion of the regulator that Valve should eliminate it all, and the evidence for this is that although it initially received over 40,000 user comments, it currently has just over 9,000 people.
After four years (last year) and 500,000 units sold, Valve withdrew the order and disappeared from the Steam platform after a "final spill" process there he was selling it for less than ten euros. Now, it has been discovered that a few days ago the company had a set of rules for this remote, which we will talk about now.
Steam 2 controller, customizable like Xbox Elite
The patent number WO / 2020/60861 published on March 26 shows a control that will have rotating parts, so that the user can replace, for example, the left play stick with the title, command Xbox Elite, considered PC controller.
This patent tells us that, despite the fact that the first Steam Controller was terminated after the company's failure, Valve never stops and continues to work on it. From what you see in designs the two remaining touch panels, the reason for the lack of official introduction is because, as we mentioned earlier, these have prevented the use of a controller in action games and no longer compete, limiting its use in "normal" type games and has no competition since the speed of response is significantly reduced compared to the standard controller.
Will it hit the market at some point?
The fact that a patent is registered, as you well know, does not mean that the product will actually see the light, it means that the company is still working on it. The first Steam controller was opened in 2015 and was discontinued in 2019 with negative feedback from users, and this was primarily due to the sheer volume of command that controlled their touch.
Valve has now issued a patent for what appears to be a second type of control, but it's there they change the fact that we can replace the left stick by D-Pad or other means, however nothing important has changed. This can mean two things: either they do not intend to introduce themselves to the market in the short or medium term because they are still active, or that they will not launch in the market at all because, in our view, they have already failed in the first edition and are not making major changes in the second, users will be exposed in advance and are expected to sell much lower .
