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After supersizing its Stream Deck controller into a product designed for professional broadcast environments in 2024, Elgato is giving a similar treatment to the three-year-old Stream Deck Plus. The new Stream Deck Plus XL is essentially the same product as the original, but with more macro buttons, more dials, a wider touchscreen, and a bigger footprint. It’s also $150 more expensive. The original Stream Deck Plus is still $199.99, while the new XL version is $349.99.
The original Stream Deck Plus had fewer buttons than the standard Stream Deck but offered expanded functionality through four additional dial controls and a touchscreen above them. The screen showed the functions mapped to each of those knobs, but they could also be used as buttons, in addition to other functionality. Instead of just triggering individual functions, the dials allowed precise adjustments to be made to settings like volume or gain.
The elongated touchscreen shows the programmed functionality of each dial but can also serve as additional triggers. Image: Elgato
The new Stream Deck Plus XL has the same LCD buttons with membrane switches as the smaller version, but 36 of them instead of just eight. It also has two additional dials, bringing the total to six, and a touchscreen that stretches across all the knobs. It will gobble up a little more desktop space, but if you need more than 15 buttons, the Stream Deck Plus XL will give you more than twice as many while taking up far less space than daisy-chaining a pair of standard Stream Decks.