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hi I'm Adi with the verge and I'm here at the 2015 game developers conference with the final version of valve steam controller the steam machine idea has been out for a while and we've seen prototype controllers but this is actually something that's a lot more solid and is going to be coming out finally in November one of the big differences between this and a standard just xbox controller is that instead of a directional pad it's got this trackpad here this has been smoothed out and it works sort of a lot like an analog stick now but you can set it with momentum and it's a bit finer right now I'm playing System Shock 2 which pretty much it doesn't work with the controller and I'm using this trackpad to track my motion but I can also bring up a menu and I can use this for the really fine click-and-drag work of moving this thing in the in my inventory it actually ends up working pretty well although the upshot to this is that you have to spend a lot of time messing around with bindings which seems to be something that they've spent a lot of time putting options into so there's just a cornucopia of key binding options here that are probably going to be fun but for right now I mean that it's a little bit hard to tell how well it's actually going to work for things that you won't be normally using a controller for it's just a standard controller it's fairly intuitive and it's in a lot of ways say this is like the Xbox controller that you would plug into your laptop or your normal PC but it just has these sort of extra options it's going to be out in November for about $50 along with steam link and all of the other stuff the steam is showing off at GDC you