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PayPalAfter recently tweaking Steam Input and the Steam Client, Valve has now upgraded the main Steam Store to show off controller support for games.
They've updated the main Controller-Friendly Game Hub, allowing you to filter specifically by controller type between Xbox and PlayStation DualShock and DualSense. Making it easier than ever to ensure you're finding games that support your main controller. Example below:
Store pages for individual games also had their controller support status expanded. Down the right-side of pages were features are listed, you'll now see bits like this to indicate what controllers they work with:
There's more too including new search filtering options for specific controller models, Steam Library updates to show controller support more clearly and new filtering for your Steam Library (including for Big Picture Mode).
Speaking about why they're now expanding all this they said there were "over 3 Billion game sessions that included a controller in the past year" and of that 60% were with an Xbox controller, 27% PlayStation and the rest a mixture of Steam Deck, Switch Pro, and hundreds of other controller models. Four years ago that controller gaming session count was only 990 million, so it's a huge increase in people gaming with controllers and back then only 19% were using PlayStation controllers so their popularity has increased a lot too.
What do you prefer to game with?
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
QuoteWhat do you prefer to game with?Steam Deck primarily, and if/when docked I use an Xbox Series X controller.
buckysrevenge Nov 21, 2023
QuoteWhat do you prefer to game with?
1. MKB
2. MKB
3. MKB
4. MKB
5. Controller. Maybe :)
I've only ever used xbox controllers (and steam deck), so I can't really make a good choice between them. But I suspect that I'd not be a fan of the left stick placement on PS controllers.
Last edited by Ehvis on 21 November 2023 at 2:00 pm UTC
Quoting: EhvisQuoteWhat do you prefer to game with?
1. MKB
2. MKB
3. MKB
4. MKB
5. Controller. Maybe :)
Same here.
However, I'm wondering if my Logitech F310 controller counts as an Xbox controller, since it has the same buttons.
Quoting: PyreticI use my PlayStation controller whenever my Steam Deck is plugged in, mainly because it comes with gyro and I have a PS4 anyway. I wish Steam could implement a feature that automatically replaced the Xbox controller textures with PS4 glyphs. But I can understand how much of a nightmare that would be to implement.Technically it already does: if a developer uses Steam Input for their input handling the game can automatically get whichever glyphs are appropriate for whichever controller is being used, provided it's a controller that Steam knows about (which is all the major ones). Developers that pick some other library to handle controller input end up with Xbox prompts because Microsoft declared that Xbox is the Windows "standard," and developers have to put in extra effort to also have anything else.
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