Demonstration video of the Steam Controller

Looks awkward but a lot of controllers look awkward to me but turn out comfortable.

Oh my god, its glorious, my tiny little fears are gone!

GLORIOUS!

The worst part is going to be getting used to the trackpads in place of the sticks, but once you bridge that little gap, you have the ability to customise them and ultimately function in games that sticks wouldn't be so hot at. It still won't compare to a keyboard and mouse in terms of flexibility and absolute precision in twitch gaming, but I think it's a cool alternative, especially for a PC gaming console.

Still haven't seen the central display panel in action, and the feedback system is something you'd have to experience for yourself, but I'm still interested in this. Have they revealed a price, yet? I imagine a dual-trackpad + micro-display controller won't be dirt cheap.

While it does look VERY precise but it looks kinda slow to move around but well see.

That looks so much nicer in action than I was expecting it to look.

Looking good

Thanks for the link

I like.

Seems good for most things (especially couch gaming things), but definitely different, so it'll be nice to have a third option around (besides normal controllers and kb/mouse). Still looks too slow for precision aiming in Counter-Strike (especially since those aren't moving player targets), but that's about what I expected so no real surprises here -- and CS is a specific case, I'm sure it'd work fine for most console competitive FPS titles (Halo, CoD, BF, et al.).
Thanks for sharing the link!

next time Valve show some Devil May Cry or Street Fighter because I have no idea how can those type of games be played on that thing

Not bad.

Looks interesting.

seems imprecise. Noticed he had to slow way down to click the menus as he got closer to them in civ 5 and the shooter game to way to long to get an accurate shot

Thanks for the share.

That actually looks pretty good. I always thought the best controller would be something like the 360 controller but with a trackball in place of the right stick but the trackpads might do the trick.

Future controller!

Kinda not digging the pad working like a mouse/trackball, where you can't turn in full continuous circles, but instead have to swipe your thumb across the pad numerous times (like picking a mouse up to recenter it)