The l🎃atest Steam client beta𝔍 has added official support for Nintendo Joy-Con controllers, making it far easier to use Switch-style controls with your PC games.
On August 4, a went live with two changes, the more prominent of which is this: "Added support for Niಞntendo Joy-Con controllers, both individually as a mini-gamepad and combined into pairs." The update also notes that Nintendo Online classic controllers now have "improved support."
It typically takes anywhere from a few weeks to a month for a beta update to go live on the main Steam client, so you can expect the feature to be ♉available for everyone fairly soon.
On July 27, for the Nintendo Online classic controllers - the modern bluetooth controllers made in the shapes of NES, SNES, Genesis/Mega Drive, and N64 gamepads which Nintendo sells directly through its own store. Yes, now, with official support for both N64🌃 controllers and Joy-Cons, Steam finally supports all of Nintendo's worst controllers. Well, excluding the Power Glove, I guess.
Steam has had support for the Switch Pro controller , and while I'm not personally a fan of the Joy-Cons (even when I'm not suffering from 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Joy-Con drift), it's good to see more and more console controllers getting direct support for Steam Input. Valve's fiꦿnally gಞiven us the dream land where our DualSenses, Joy-Cons, and Xbox pads can live in harmony.
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was spar🐈ked somewhere between Meta൲l Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.
