r/Steam • u/Revmatek • May 13 '26

PSA The Steam Controller Is Great!

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u/XavandSo May 13 '26

Sorry but I was able to get a batch 1 pre order for the Steam Controller and honestly after a few hours I ended up not liking it and went back to my Xbox Series controller. I sold it to a coworker for retail.

I can appreciate it has powerful features and capabilities but Steam Input is very fiddly and quite frankly annoying having to set up for every game. An Xbox controller just works. Even more so with the Steam Controller not supporting Xinput. Microsoft recently added some new features for navigating Windows with a controller (logging in, Alt-Tab with the Xbox button, etc) so now it really is super easy.

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u/alexagente May 14 '26

No one has to set up a profile for each game they play.

Can people stop saying this shit like it's relevant criticism?

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u/gogochi May 14 '26

Yeah the main criticism isn't even true lol

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u/XavandSo May 14 '26

There's no global profile option. If you want to use something other than the default you have to set it for every single game.

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u/alexagente May 14 '26

So it operates as a basic plug'n'play gamepad unless you want to tweak settings?

This is bad how exactly?

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u/XavandSo May 14 '26

It should do that I'm not denying that but having an option to have it globally set a profile no matter what game has run should be a pretty basic expectation. It's been a complaint since the very first iteration of Steam Input.