Steam will soon show which games support PlayStation controllers

The Steam retailer will quickly let you know if a sport helps Sony’s DualSense or DualShock controllers. Valve posted an update for developers this week, asserting that the characteristic would go stay in Steam’s retailer and desktop app beginning in October. Valve hints that extra controller-friendly options might be on their approach to Steam. “This is step one towards serving to gamers discover video games that assist probably the most commonly-used PC online game controllers,” the corporate wrote.

Builders ought to now see a brand new questionnaire in Steamworks, Valve’s sport creation instruments for its ubiquitous digital storefront. The survey lets devs specify whether or not their sport gives full or partial assist for Xbox, DualShock and DualSense controllers. Valve says the filters may also show every PlayStation controller’s utilization stage, serving to avid gamers be taught which gamepads folks use probably the most.

Valve chalks up the choice to rising numbers of gamers utilizing PlayStation controllers. It says Sony controller utilization has grown from 11 p.c of periods in 2018 to 27 p.c at this time. The corporate provides that, since 2017, over 87 million Steam customers have performed no less than as soon as utilizing a controller. Amongst that group, 69 p.c have used “some model of Xbox controllers,” whereas the rest used “a mixture of PlayStation controllers, Swap Professional Controllers, and lots of of different gadgets.”