TechGamingGaming AccessoriesSteam finally gets full PS5 DualSense controller supportAt last Steam has made it easy for you to find games to play with your DualSense controllersWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechGamingGaming AccessoriesSteam finally gets full PS5 DualSense controller supportAt last Steam has made it easy for you to find games to play with your DualSense controllersWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
At last Steam has made it easy for you to find games to play with your DualSense controllers
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
(Image credit: Valve)
(Image credit: Valve)
If you’ve been waiting for Steam to support PS5 DualSense controllers, we’ve got good news: the service has been updated with much better DualSense features.
The update was announced on theofficial Steam blog, which says that the update will “help the millions of players withPlayStation’s DualShock and DualSense controllers easily find games to play with those devices.”
What other changes has Steam made for DualSense players?
Steam has also updated its store page displays, which will now tell you more about support for the three most commonly used controllers – again, Xbox, DualShock and DualSense. The display will be personalised based on the devices Steam has seen you use most recently.
Search has been updated too. You can now search with filters to look specifically for your chosen controller, and to find games build specifically with controllers in mind.
That’s not all. Controller support is now shown in your Library, and you can set filters to automatically categorise controller-focused games into the same category for fast access. And there’s now a permanent Controller Configuration button on the play bar next to the settings and information buttons on the play bar.
If you’re wondering why Valve is so keen on controllers when it’s primarily a PC platform, the blog explains that too: it notes that around 12% of active players on Steam regularly use controllers, and in some games the numbers are much, much higher: some popular ball games can have as many as 80% of their players using controllers rather than keyboards, and some RPGs have more than 50% of players doing the same. Xbox controllers remain the favourite – they’re used more than twice as much s PlayStation ones – but the proportion of PlayStation controllers has increased from 19% of sessions to 27%. Other controllers in common use include theSteam Deckand similar handhelds.
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As ever with Valve the blog also goes into a deep dive about what forms of support it’s offering and what other patches have been made to the store. It also details how Bluetooth is more challenging for PS5 controllers than for Xbox ones, and why that might be an issue in some games.
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