Why Valve’s New $100 Controller Rings Like A Phone, Lacks A 3.5 Jack, And Isn’t Called The Steam Controller 2
Kotaku | 28.04.2026 00:00
When I sat down for my interview with two people from Valve, engineer Jeremy Slocum and designer Lawrence Yang, to talk about the company’s upcoming Steam Controller, I had one important question to ask: Why couldn’t I see the controller’s battery life in Steam when connected wirelessly? They laughed before Yang explained that players will be able to see the battery life when the controller ships. That feature just wasn’t available to me in the current Steam beta branch.
