Valve’s Steam Controller is a weird mutant with potential

Valve is getting into the hardware business — and you can’t make video game hardware without having your own controller.

We’ve reached a point of near standardization of the gamepad. Everything is basically just a riff on the Xbox 360 controller we’ve used for years, and that’s one of the reasons Valve’s Steam Controller is so damn strange. So if you drop the $50 to pick up one of these input devices, you need to have no expectations that it’s going to work like other popular controllers.