Steam Deck Faq Confirms You Can Use It As A Giant Pc Controller

Some of answers cover what’s already known, like the Steam Deck UI eventually replacing Steam’s Big Picture mode on desktop, but there are some tasty morsels of fresh new info in there. For one, it turns out the Steam Deck can be used as a controller for playing on your main PC or laptop. Given the Deck’s considerable, uh, girth, this doesn’t sound like a very wieldy alternative to just using an Xbox or PlayStation controller, but it could work out nicely if those little trackpads do a sufficient job or recreating the accuracy of mouse movement. Apparently some folk have also been asking if the Steam Deck will work with VR headsets? Valve says that you can technically connect one, but hoo boy, running certain VR games will be asking a lot of the Deck’s APU: a relatively modest combined CPU and graphics processor. And it’s 1.5 meters / 4.9 feet, for the record.