Finally, Dualshock 4 Will Have Steam Support

The Dualshock 4 is a really slick and comfortable controller. And it’s a shame that windows 10 doesn’t support it well enough. You got to go through a bit of a process to even start it up. Well now Valve has an answer to all the Dualshock 4 users. An event that Valve held – Steam Dev Days – talked about early access games, VR content, Steam controller support and much more.

During the controller support presentation Jeff Bellinghausen (Valve) and Lars Doucet (Level-up Labs) took stage and talked in-depth about Steam Controllers. The full transcript can be located at Gamasutra ( via Kotaku ). At the beginning of the presentation Jeff talked about sales now and projected sales of the Steam controller. After Jeff’s presentation Lars took stage and talk about the problems of controller support for Steam.

Near the end of the presentation he goes on to mentions 3^rd party controller support. The first controller that is going to be supported is the Dualshock 4. Lars makes a point that the Dualshock 4 API is exactly the same to the Steam API. Making integration of the Dualshock 4 simple, without changing the API.

There are many similarities between the Steam controller and the Dualshock 4. The touch pad and gyro control supports both controllers. So the overlapping functionality should be simple and easy to implement. The Dualshock 4 input configurations looks clean and simple to understand. You will need to use configure it form the Steam API.

Dualshock 4 is just the first 3^rd party controller that will be supported for Steam in an upcoming update. Valve plans to have more 3^rd party controller support in the future.

Now that I know the Dualshock 4 is going to be compatible with Steam I can finally play on the gamepad that I prefer. It’s good to know that Valve is thinking about console users too with support for both Xbox One and PS4 controllers.