The days when all Steam players only played with a keyboard and mouse are long gone. Many PC gamers nowadays use a controller – and they have a surprising favorite.
Steam users prefer Xbox controllers to DualSense
Actually, the gaming community is largely in agreement: The PS5's DualSense is an excellent controller that outshines the Xbox gamepad in terms of features. However, this does not seem to have gotten around in the Steam community yet, because there A whopping 59 percent of gamepad users use an Xbox controller. Only 26 percent, on the other hand, use a PlayStation controller.
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The fact that the PS5 controller has not yet established itself among more Steam players could of course also be due to the fact that only a limited number of games on the PC platform are actually which supports next-gen features such as haptic feedback and adaptive trigger buttons. In addition, some players with Xbox gamepads may also still use older models – for example, the Xbox 360 controllers that were extremely popular at the time.
In our video we show you how to use your PS5 DualSense controller on your PC:
More and more Steam players are using gamepads
Whether PlayStation or Xbox controller – overall, it can be seen that the number of gamepad users on Steam is growing. While in 2018 just 5 percent of daily users played with a controller, This year it was already 15 percentThis development has not gone unnoticed by Valve, which is why the company has integrated some improvements for gamepads in recent months.
Among other things, navigation of the Big Picture mode has been improved, support for the virtual menus in the desktop client has been added, and optimised aiming with gyroscope gamepads. (Source: Steam)
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Steam users can also look forward to a brand new feature: