If I remember correctly, Valve stated that for being “Steam certified” the controller needs to have capacitive joysticks to regulate the gyro, similar to the “Horipad” that they partnered to release.

I was hoping that 8bitdo would launch a controller that actually has this because it makes gyro much more viable, to the point that I really don’t like using gyro without that.

But this announcement is just to indicate explicit compatibility for steam input (which has been available in the beta for a while, btw). I don’t think this is a huge change since technically they were compatible before too… even if it was through the xinput / dinput interface without being recognized as 8bitdo.

As if. Steam(OS) has now compatibility for your controllers. Controllers are hardware, Steam is not. That’s putting the cart before the horse, just because the cart is more popular.

They already did. But I’m hoping this means the elite 2c can now wake the steamdeck.

Article sadly doesn’t mention the 2c and I just couldn’t stomach paying $20 more for a stand.

I think the controllers work fine, but I’m hoping they will make their app available on Linux