Valve says the Steam Deck’s ‘stick drift’ was a bug and it’s already shipped a fix
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The first batch of Steam Decks is starting to arrive to the lucky few who could order them on Friday, and a handful of owners have reported stick drift on their devices. But Valve now tells us that what's going on is a deadzone calibration issue" - which indicates this is a software problem, not a hardware one - and that the team has already shipped a fix for it.
Joystick drift is an issue that causes your character or cursor in a game to continue moving even when you aren't actually pushing the joystick in a direction. It's a problem many have experienced with the Nintendo Switch's Joy-Con controllers. While Nintendo itself has suggested the issue will never be fully addressed because Joy-Cons will wear down over time, it does repair...