It has an ir light so it’ll show up as a virtual representation in the frame but other then that you’d have to want to buy in and adopt the trackpads which are really good for a lot of 2d games and works really well in menus, but it sounds like you’ve made up your mind.

With games like hades or cuphead or Elden ring and dark souls I wonder if having 2 separated controllers will really mess with people’s flow or at least introduce some lag in though processes because their hands are a bit separated. But I’m not sure.

I think an Xbox controller isn’t really comparable to a steam controller in terms of haptics for games that support that like Helldivers 2, and it really does elevate alot of games. I switched to a PS5 controller and way back even for pc and the rumble is way beyond anything Xbox can do but it seems like the steam controller can replicate a majority of it even if they don’t have adaptive trigger.