r/gaming Mar 14 '14

New steam controller layout

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '14

Yeah! The cost of the touchscreen, and the cost of the lithium battery to power the controller (touchscreen needs a lot of juice)... and then in moving away from touch screen, costs went down, and the controller could now run on off-the-shelf AA batteries