By Emma Boyle
Valve has revealed that Steam on PC will soon be receiving an update that will enable it to natively support the PlayStation 4 DualShock 4 controller.
The announcement was made by Valve engineer Jeff Bellinghausen at the company’s Steam Dev Days conference. In a transcription from Gamasutra, it appears that the Dualshock 4 controller is simply the first of many planned controller support additions that will come at a later date.
Bellinghausen’s co-host, Defender’s Quest developer Lars Doucet, said that at the moment support for the DualShock 4 on PC “is a bit weak.”
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Fortunately, Steam’s update allows it to communicate directly with the PS4 controller. The connection becomes “nice and reliable” particularly as “it’s got a lot of overlapping functionality with the Steam Controller.“
According to Doucet, when a DualShock 4 controller is connected to the Steam API, it essentially becomes the same as a Steam controller, allowing players to “use all the configuration options available to the Steam Controller, including use of the PS4 touchpad and gyro.”
As a result of its overlapping functionalities, it makes sense that the PlayStation 4 controller will …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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