# Steam Controller — Introducing the Steam Controller

A 94-second launch film that opens with a retro space-shooter on a living-room TV, frames the old gamepad-versus-mouse and couch-versus-desk trade-off in icons, then shows the controller in first-person hands across four very different games, ending on a floating-controller lockup.

- Code: LN-0845
- Kind: Launch film
- Format: Feature tour
- Brand: Steam Controller
- Length: 93.9s · 22 beats · 14.1 beats/min · 4 hard cuts
- Industry: Gaming, Hardware, Consumer electronics
- Style: Music-led, No voiceover, Dark UI, Device mockups, Retro, Slow and deliberate, Cinematic
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fs2Yh1PFwM
- Full breakdown: https://cutmap.co/v/steam-controller-introducing-the-steam-controller

## The breakdown

The full breakdown has eleven sheets: Snapshot, Opening, Structure, Timeline, Rhythm, Look, Movement, Sound & words, Why it works, Production, Build brief. It is available to Cutmap Pro members at https://cutmap.co/v/steam-controller-introducing-the-steam-controller.