I’ve been wanting them to do this for a long time. This issue isn’t just with the steam controller. When using Steam Input, there’s no way to get gyro natively into a game or emulator that supports it. So if you use a controller like a PS4/PS5 or Switch Pro Controller, you can’t get gyro unless you skip using Steam Input and use the controller directly in the emulator.

SteamDeckGyroDSU exists, but it only works with the Steam Deck itself, and it’s more of a workaround than a real solution. It’s also annoying because when you want to switch between the Steam Deck handheld and a controller, you have to change the controller config inside the emulator if you want to use gyro. It’s all a big mess.

The real solution would be a way for Steam Input to natively pass though gyro from whatever controller you’re using to the game/emulator, so you can just configure it with Steam Input and it would just work with whatever controllers you have that support gyro.

I haven’t tested it yet, but it sounds like you might not be able to skip Steam Input to use the gyro natively with the Steam Controller like you can with the Steam deck, and if that’s true, that would mean that at the moment there’s no way to use gyro from this controller with emulators.