Engadget has a look at the latest iteration of Valve’s Steam Controller… and now they’ve added a thumbstick. The very traditional-looking stick replaces a set of directional buttons on the lefthand side of the controller. The stick sits below the left trackpad, which remains in the same spot. The right side of the controller looks the same as it did before with another trackpad and four face buttons.
This is the third design of Valve’s Steam Controller that the developer has made public. The controller was originally unveiled last year and Valve dropped a planned touchscreen earlier this year. It’s expected to be available in 2015, but who knows, Valve might have other iterations of the Steam Controller up their sleeve.
This new version of Valve’s Steam Controller makes it look closer to a standard console controller, however, a part of me thinks that the trackpad and analog stick fighting for controller real estate on the left side make it look a little unwieldy. But what do I know? I love the three-pronged Nintendo 64 controller.
