"Last month, I discovered the controller is finally a first-class citizen in Steam and SteamOS. The Stadia controller was originally designed to connect to your Wi-Fi network and remotely control games from Google's cloud servers. But when Stadia shut down in January 2023, the company did an amazing job shutting down the service: it offered full hardware refunds and let you rescue the Stadia Controller by turning it into a generic Bluetooth gamepad instead."
"When I flew to Valve headquarters in late October to see the Steam Machine, I asked Pierre-Loup Griffais if Steam would ever fully support the Stadia controller the way it's supported so many other gamepads, letting you turn each of its buttons and joysticks into fully customizable control schemes. At the time, he said he thought the Xbox One wireless adapter might be a higher priority than Google's abandoned controller."
Steam and SteamOS now treat the Stadia controller as a fully supported, first-class gamepad with remappable buttons and configurable control schemes. The Stadia controller was originally built to connect via Wi‑Fi and remotely control games on Google’s cloud servers. After Stadia shut down in January 2023, Google offered full hardware refunds and provided a conversion path that lets the controller operate as a generic Bluetooth gamepad. Valve previously indicated other hardware priorities, but Steam now exposes every control for customization. A December 31, 2025 deadline is noted as the timeframe to preserve or update the controller's usefulness.
Read at The Verge
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