We reported to you yesterday that some Steam Deck users have reported stick drift issues. The least we can say is that Valve has been very responsive since the problem seems to have already been corrected if we are to believe one of its members.
A simple dead zone problem
Hi all, a quick note about Steam Deck thumbsticks. The team has looked into the reported issues and it turns out it was a deadzone regression from a recent firmware update. We just shipped a fix to address the bug, so make sure you’re up to date.
—Lawrence Yang (@lawrenceyang) March 2, 2022
Lawrence Yang, designer of the Steam Deck, announced on Twitter that the team had indeed identified the source of the problem. In response, an update is already deployed :
“Hello everyone, a quick note on the Steam Deck analog sticks. The team reviewed the reported issues and found it to be a dead zone regression from a recent firmware update. We just sent out a patch to fix the bug, so make sure you’re up to date. »
One of the people who reported the problem on reddit also confirms that the update has indeed solved the problem. Given that Valve’s portable console was released very recently, it would have been surprising if this was a degradation issue. Social networks did not wait to draw a parallel with Nintendo, which took a long time to react to the Joy-Con drift issue, even if it is obvious that a problem related to hardware is very complicated to to manage.