MULTI [PC] Valve: a growing # of people are playing Steam games with a PlayStation controller

[CerebralTiger]

In a post announcing that all games currently using the Steam Input API are now fully compatible with the new PlayStation 5 controller (that means full support for the DualSense's LED, trackpad, rumble and gyro features), Valve revealed that people really do play PC games with controllers.

"In the past two years, the number of daily average users playing a Steam game with a controller has more than doubled, with millions enjoying the growing catalog of controller-friendly titles everyday," Valve said.

In controller-friendly games, the percentage of players for that game that use a controller can easily be 60 per cent or higher, Valve added.

Some games, such as skateboarding games, have well over 90 per cent of their players using controllers in game.

And it turns out that the growth in controller usage has been even higher among players using PlayStation controllers, which has grown in the past two years from 10.9 per cent of controller play sessions to 21.6 per cent of all controller sessions across Steam.

Valve says a growing number of people are playing Steam games with a controller

The number of daily average users playing a Steam game with a controller has more than doubled in the past two years, V…

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Yikes!!

 

[Major Aly]

And it turns out that the growth in controller usage has been even higher among players using PlayStation controllers, which has grown in the past two years from 10.9 per cent of controller play sessions to 21.6 per cent of all controller sessions across Steam.

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[iampasha]

I'm not seeing anything about impulse trigger support

 

[Chandoo]

And it turns out that the growth in controller usage has been even higher among players using PlayStation controllers, which has grown in the past two years from 10.9 per cent of controller play sessions to 21.6 per cent of all controller sessions across Steam.

Probably gonna get another exponential increase in the next 2 years owing to DualSense.

 

[CerebralTiger]

Press F for $180 Elite Controllers....

I'm not seeing anything about impulse trigger support

Support for adaptive triggers is also planned, but devs will also have to support the functionality on the software end.

 

[GoldenHawk]

Ah Steam the gift that keeps on giving.