News - Valve's Steam Controller seems to have sprouted a thumb stick

[HEXUS]

Replacing the diamond shaped 4 button arrangement on its middle-left.

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[wyte_w0lf]

Is that a trackball version i see?! That would be so awkward to use... .. good try though... but no thanks. Until i have a hands on try and it works to navigate desktop use too, ill stick with my xbox 360 controller for casual pc games.

[R4P70R]

Don't forget, this controller is made to be usable with FPS, RTS and other game genre that are unplayable on an usual xbox or ps controller.

[zaph0d]

I think with this latest design they've pretty much got it done. Only thing I would alter is to add a Pinky button behind one of the heels for Push-To-Talk, unless either LG/RG could be set to such.

[Dooms]

A dedicated push to talk button would be nice

I'm glad to see that they have been very happy to go back to the drawing board a few times with this controller instead of sticking to their guns. Looks like this might nail it, really want to try one

[Corky34]

IIRC the dev kit, or what ever it's called allows for total reconfiguration of the buttons & trackpads.
So i would expect that once the community gets hold of it there will be downloadable profiles for most games, with different layouts, like dedicated push to talk buttons.