Valve’s Latest Steam Controller Design Has a D-pad

<p>Those days when Valve&&num;8217&semi;s Steam Machine was <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;asus-teases-potential-steam-machine&sol;">but a glimmer<&sol;a> in gamers&&num;8217&semi; eyes are long past&comma; it seems&period; Last year&comma; we showed you what the designs for the Steam Machine&&num;8217&semi;s <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;heres-steam-machine-prototype-looks-like&sol;">earliest prototype<&sol;a> looked like&semi; and yes&comma; that controller of Valve&&num;8217&semi;s is still coming along&comma; too&period; A blue one&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As you&&num;8217&semi;ll see above&comma; the left touch area now appears to have a directional pad in conjunction with the long-rumored analog stick the controller was purported to have added in the past few months to complement its rather&comma; err&comma; &&num;8220&semi;unusual&&num;8221&semi; touch pads&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Additionally&comma; images via Steam have indicated the inclusion of different &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;modes” of use akin to what Valve had previously stated were customization preferences that players could access for their Steam controller&period; Hence&comma; there&&num;8217&semi;ll likely be a variety of control-schemes available at launch for how you want to play&comma; but we don&&num;8217&semi;t know much about whether that blue finish is final&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We also don&&num;8217&semi;t know what happened to the controller&&num;8217&semi;s original designs&comma; sans the D-pad and analog stick&period; We&&num;8217&semi;ll let you know as the veil over the Steam Machine&&num;8217&semi;s hopefully lifted by Valve in the coming year&lpar;s&rpar;&period; The world turns differently for the company that gave you Half-Life 2&comma; after all&comma; so stay tuned&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Via<&sol;strong> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;valvetime&period;net&sol;threads&sol;steam-client-beta-update-reveals-latest-steam-controller-design&period;245634&sol;">ValveTime<&sol;a> &amp&semi; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eurogamer&period;net&sol;articles&sol;2014-12-17-new-steam-controller-design-leaked">Eurogamer<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;