Valve is developing new controllers of its own brand, the so-called Steam Controller 2 and SteamVRwho would come to renew their hardware offering. They were leaked in the official virtual reality software code and are expected to be available in 2025.

While the Steam Deck portable console (reduced this week) is taking center stage by inspiring a whole new wave of portable gaming machines and also improving Linux gaming, we have to remember that Valve makes other hardware products, whether it’s a controller elements or Hub

Steam Controller 2 and SteamVR

The second generation of Valve’s official codenamed controller “Ibex”it resembles the design of the Steam Deck controls and maintains a format similar to the Xbox controller. While the original Steam Controller sacrificed the traditional directional pad and right analog stick to make room for its innovative trackpads, the successor reverses those innovations (which for some were compromises) and places them below the joysticks.

As for the new codenamed virtual reality controllers “Roy”they look much smaller than the Valve Index controller and look very similar to the controllers on the Metal Quest 3 headset Several design stages have emerged, but the final model appears to include a full set of buttons, levers, triggers and grips. which are expected from any standard driver.

Unlike the Quest 3 controllers, Valve added a directional pad and moved the four buttons on the right controller. Roy is the first concrete evidence of Valve’s future plans for virtual reality as references to a separate device codenamed “Deckard” surfaced in 2021.

Details about the project are scarce, but another recent leak revealed that Valve’s interest in ARM for Linux will make this “Index” a device with an architecture that wants to topple x86 in the PC market in this article and their appearance in Valve’s official software code suggest that society is actively preparing for the launch of these two devices this would boost its line of proprietary hardware on top of the fact that the portable console continues to be the absolute star. We will see them in 2025.