Hey, hey, hi, how are you? It's the Jeff Gersman Show. It's a podcast about video games.

And it is April 28th, 2026. We're here. We're ready to discuss video games and all of the other stuff that goes with that,

I suppose.

It's, uh, you know, we're getting some, some decent and, like, interesting kind of new releases

lately, which has been kind of nice.

We're also on the cusp of the release of Valve's steam controller,

which they decided to ship ahead of the steam machines because, well, otherwise they have to pay

a bunch of warehouse fees on storing them if they decide to wait until steam machines are

actually ready, you know what I'm saying? Hey, you know, shit happens, as they say. I'm interested in the steam controller. I, uh, you know, shit happens, as they say.

I'm interested in the Steam Controller.

I, uh, this is, I, uh, it's, uh, I should really email Valve.

Say, hey, I would be interested in covering this stuff.

In fact, I do cover this stuff.

Um, but, uh, I do cover this stuff.

But I didn't.

There you go.

I think the main thing I'm curious about that I haven't necessarily seen in any of the Steam controller coverage that landed, I guess, yesterday, barring, you know, someone breaking embargo

and fucking the whole thing up.

Is the quality of the D-pad.

Over the time that I spent with a steam deck, which I don't use the actual steam deck as

often anymore, I use the

Rog ally X, uh, a little bit, a little bit more frequently, but I'm not using either of

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