The new Steam Controller releases May 4th

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How does compatibility work for the steam controller? Does it appear as a generic xbox controller or does it have its own device designation?

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according to gamers nexus’ review without steam runing it just functions as a mouse touchpad, no gamepad. Possibly some keypresses on the huttons. Same way steamdeck controls behave when you are in desktop mode but dont have steam running.

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Based on how the Steam Deck’s integrated controller shows up, it should default to being designated as a Steam controller specifically. I believe it falls back to the Xbox standard if there’s an incompatibility though

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