… but the Steam Controller works with any hardware that can run Steam.

… which is… any PC, thats less than roughly 15-20 years old.

So this is absolutely not the exact same thing as what Nintendo does.

Steam is hardware agnostic. Nintendo is not.

You could run a Steam Controller on a Nintendo Switch, provided you got rid of Nintendo’s operating system, like so:

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/steam-shown-running-on-nintendo-switch-thanks-to-latest-proton-beta-fex-2604-translates-x86-to-arm-friendly-instructions-on-linux

Ok, I didn’t downvote you, but…

Its a Steam Controller.

For Steam.

… If you just made up some expectation, contrary to everything that Valve has said about this thing, and marketed it as…

To a certain extent, that is magical thinking, that is abandoning any concept of checking your hopes or expectations against… reality.

If you… want to run… a game… with this controller…

You install Steam, and the game.

Steam is the drivers, for the controller.

If you own the game in a way that you can’t add it to Steam… sorry about your DRM, I guess?

The Steam Controller has always been described by Valve as an evolution of the Steam Deck tech, both hardwsre and software… it pretty much literally is a Steam Deck, without the screen and PC, in a different shape.

EDIT:

IRT to your edit:

Point 1: Correct. The Steam Controller… works through Steam.

Point 2: … I don’t think the first half of this is correct. I’m not 100% sure, but I think you can do this via Moonlight/Sunshine. I mean… I know you can in general stream Steam games from a PC using Moonlight/Sunshine, I’m not 100% sure this will work with a Steam Controller… but it works on a Steam Deck, so… probably will work.

As to the second half of this… yeah, the Steam Controller probably won’t generally work as a controller for a game on a phone. Though FeX may actually somewhat/eventually aid with getting that to being possible.

Any projects? Make your project support Steam Input. I can’t speak for other engines too well, but Godot has GodotSteam, supports Steam Controllers, the SteamInput system.

As to your internet related concerns: Steam has an offline mode. Unless you are running a game via Steam that has its own/extra DRM that requires a constant internet connection, you’ll be fine.

SteamInput works without internet. If it didnt’t, a SteamDeck’s controls would not work at all without internet access. … It does.

EDIT 2:

Just for super duper clarity here:

Making a Steam account costs nothing.

Maintaining a Steam account costs nothing.

Any … .exe or .sh or whatever… can be added to Steam, to be launched and played via Steam.

The… only kind of situation where this wouldn’t work is essentially via a game that is installed/managed by some other platform that basically encrypts the exe in a way that only that platform can decrypt.

A GOG game, or something from Itch.io, with no DRM?

Plop it in Steam, it’ll work.

Can confirm, Garry is a total fucking asshole, who also sucks at coding and software engineering.

He deleted the old Facepunch forums because they were absolutely chalk full of him being a dick needlessly, being told about bugs and problems and better ways to do things, and mocking and banning those people… when they were correct.

He got tired of deleting threads and banning people who functionally developed the game for him, for the purposes of being able to gaslight others, so he just nuked it all.

I was a part of the GMod community since before it was sold for money, when it was a ripoff of JBMod… he has always been like this, and he has never changed.

EDIT:

The Anti Cheat thing on linux and rust is particularly a good example of this kind of incompetence and asswipeitude:

Rust uses Easy Anti Cheat.

… Easy Anti Cheat supports linux, there are a fair number of games that work with EAC, on linux.

What Garry cannot do, is architect a game in such a way that… EAC can work with it, on linux.

… I learned programming by way of creating both game modes … and exploits… for Garrys Mod.

… I was 16, and I could defeat various parts of Garry’s attempts at secure netcode (rather, the framework Garry uses to interperet/wrap/encapsulate Source netcode).

Some ‘friends’ I knew… were even better at it than I was.

Garry is not good at programming.

But according to him, you’re the idiot if you point out any problems with anything he’s ever created.

There’s a review on Steam right now, for Sandbox.

Sometimes, you join a custom gamemode?

Time to download 10 gigabytes.

… there were viruses that propogated through Steam itself, where Garry’s Mod… using a similar way of grabbing files… was the attack vector.

That Valve themselves had to step in and fix, because they didn’t imagine that anyone would make such obtuse and dangerous usage of the Steam/Source protocols, as Garry just… thinks is fine.

Wow I am so surprised that a Facepunch production is a buggy clusterfuck mess on launch, certainly there is no precedent for this having ever happened before.

The steam review linked in the article… its rather long so I’ll put my comments in and then uh, sandbox it in a spoiler tag, but uh… maybe note how AI content is really only one of a lot of quite serious problems.

So basically its just like Garrys Mod… horrrendously designed and optimized, 32 gb RAM min requirement … for a Source Engine game… supposedly it exists for people to build things in, but the documentation is horrendous, and the community is toxic as fuck… and its kinda technically arguably a scam in fun and new ways.

Yep.

Just like Garry’s Mod.

… theres a reason Garry nuked the Facepunch forums, and that reason was to destroy all evidence of his immense and constant clownfuckery.

Ladies… he’s a bear.

He appreciates your fawning, but he doesn’t bat for that team.

Oh no, the interest rate went up!

Who could have seen that coming?

No but for real, they’re actually switching over to the FICO 10 T model for credit scoring like, this week and next week, probably gonna leave a lotta people fucked up in the credit score department.

Whole lotta tricks that people used to use … they’re not gonna work anymore.

Maybe what’s really going on is that a past life deer ancestor to this herd got reincarnated as Miss Pygmalion over here.

Well it being California, they’ll have to squeeze it out of almonds, in one way or another.

Wait, this is a ‘problem’?

People didn’t know this?

… can people not read?

Its… stated repeatedly, pretty plainly, that it works … with Steam.

???

Polar bear plunge, mild edition.

I am become Romaine, regulator of bowels.

It was for a time, when linux+Proton started outperforming Windows, in recent games, a few years ago.

But yeah, now… well Microsoft just seems very determined to actively destroy everything it maintains or touches.

Hah, thats funny, I… literally have a ‘Projects’ folder, though I’m running Bazzite.

hoists suspenders

Yep, made that folder on my own, gets the job done, mhrm.

… lol

(pleasedonotlookinsidetheProjectsfolderdeargoditissuchamess)

Twice the selection, double the fun.

… why did you ask the question … if you knew the answer?

Yakitori is basically grilled chicken on a stick.

Yaki -> ‘cooked over direct heat’

Tori -> ‘chicken’

(well, most literally, ‘bird’. also, not to be confused with ‘torii’, totally different concept)

Its like a street food, sorta like street tacos or hot dogs: relatively fast, simple, but still quite tasty… you could think of it as a very specific kind of barbecued chicken, sort of.

Izakaya is the pub/eatery, the place, the building.

Its … sort of a combination between a dive bar, and an all you can eat buffet?

Probably the westernized versions, they probably aren’t having a section for people dining on tatami mats, charging you an entrance fee, and then feeding you for up to 3 hours, as you order things in the order of ‘you know what will be cooked quickly, and what will take a while’… id imagine they’re probably more like just a sit down restaurant, with booths or tables and waiters snd servers and what not… though a lot of izakaya have that as well, it varies.

Honestly thats a reasonable thing to do.

Maybe should have gone with a demo, a beta, first, but, getting a huge initial playtest, and then going:

Here’s what worked

Here’s what didn’t

Heres’s what we wanna add/fix…

And then actually properly refactoring, instead of doing tons of patchy updates?

Gonna have an overall more stable and more complete foundational experience after those 6 months.

Tsk tsk tsk, join the Bi side, we have cookies!

Lesser grade but similar emulation thing that surprised me:

Play a DS or 3DS rom.

Set up the dual screen config.

Second screen is a map or inventory or drawing area?

Just poke the screen.

At least the OLED Deck: yep, its all a touchscreen.

They wanted somebody else to be ultimately liable for problems, not themselves.

They wanted less headcount, especially amongst employees that are more intelligent than they are.

They wanted to handle things via gladhandling and ‘business negotiations’, not actual strategy snd design.