Valve responds to the cases of DRIFT in Steam Deck

Yesterday the first drift reports began to emerge with the sticks of Steam Deck , something that had worried many fans. Although the reported cases were few, this was enough to get the attention of Valve, who have issued an answer, and promise and be working on a solution .

Through his Twitter account, Lawrence Yang, Developer of Valve, issued a statement where he said that the cases of drifting were not caused by an error with physical pieces, but a bug caused this problem, and an update Solve the inconvenience . This was what was commented about:

"Hello everyone, a quick note about Steam Deck joysticks. The team analyzed the informed problems and it turned out that it was a dead zone regression of a recent firmware update. We just sent a solution to correct the error, so be sure to be updated. "

This means that with just updating the Steam Deck, the DRIFT would cease to be a problem for users. Remember that Nintendo made a similar movement with the first cases of the Joy-with Drift . Although nothing ensures that history is going to be repeated, it is not a guarantee that is a permanent solution.

On related topics, you can learn more about the cases of DRIFT in Steam Deck here. Similarly, Gabe Newell wants to integrate Xbox Game Pass to Steam.

Editor's note:

The DRIFT is a problem that has all the users of Steam Deck. In any case, it becomes a great inconvenience, we would see something similar to those of the Switch Lite, where the entire console needs to be repaired. Hopefully this is not the case.