Valve has announced that the PlayStation 4’s DualShock 4 controller will be natively supported on Steam. The support will be added in an upcoming update.
The announcement was made by Valve’s Jeff Bellinghausen during the company’s Steam Dev Days conference, which Gamasutra transcribed.
The update will be able to customize all game inputs for the DualShock4 and will be able to take advantage of the gyro and touchpad features. Many games already support the DualShock 4 on Steam, but there are quite a few that do not support the controller without a third-party program like DS4Windows. This Steam update will obviate the need for those programs.
Valve also pointed out that it will add support for other controllers. The DualShock 4 is merely the first one to get the support.
“Believe it or not, when you use the PS4 Controller through the Steam API, it’s exactly the same as a Steam Controller,” Bellinghausen said. You make the exact same API calls, you only get actions, not inputs, and the Steam API takes care of everything.
“Not only is it a really nice, high quality controller, but it’s also got a gyro and a touchpad, so it’s got a lot of overlapping functionality with the Steam Controller.”
