Left-handed Version

[Wonne]

Maybe you should create a left-handed version of the controller too as it's quite complicated to use the analog stick and the YXAB buttons with the same finger

[Terin]

How would a left-handed controller work, anyways? Controllers are pretty symmetrical, with analog sticks, triggers, bumpers, and buttons (directional on left, face on right) on each side.

As for the steam controller, the big feature coming with it is customizable profiles that the community can make, so you could set the ABXY buttons to emulate a dpad and the left touchpad to be the face buttons, or whatever else.

[Wonne]

yeah that's correct but the dpad can't replace the buttons 1:1. Why would they add the buttons then?

[Sentmoraap]

I am left handed and I never felt that I needed an inverted controller. And I don't know how and why do you want to use the joystick and the ABXY buttons with the same finger.

[RODsupremO]

because when panning around a screen, my left hand is so much better and communicating with my vision.

[Mina Miko]

Controllers never struck me as something that would need a off-handed version O_o
Also, there exist no official left-handed controller on the market, for the sole reason that its 99% of the time a complete waste of money due to the very small amount of people that would be interested and also because a controller itself isint like a mouse or a pen where the motor abilities cant adapt rapidly

[Mountain Man]

I don't think I've ever seen a left-handed controller.

[8BitCerberus]

The original and 2nd prototype were symetical specifically so they could be used the exact same whether you preferred right or left handed.

The final design can still be used right or left handed, but it's not exactly the same feeling. But yeah, you can absolutely set the ABXY buttons to be WASD, while the stick functions as ABXY, set the left pad as mouse look/right analog, and the right pad as the d-pad. If they follow through on their initial vision of a fully customizable controller, not just in software configuration, but actual hardware customization, it wouldn't be difficult for someone to just swap the positions of the ABXY and stick, and make a left-handed version. Probably not going to be something someone at home can do without breaking out the soldering iron, but a 3rd party controller manufacturer? Absolutely.