{"id":3400,"date":"2025-08-31T08:18:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T08:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/?p=774185"},"modified":"2025-08-31T08:18:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T08:18:40","slug":"controller-players-on-steam-doubled-in-size-since-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/controller-players-on-steam-doubled-in-size-since-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Controller players on Steam doubled in size since 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/controller-players-on-steam-doubled-in-size-since-2018.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<header readability=\"1.7\">\n<div readability=\"6.7764705882353\">\n<p class=\"meta\"> By Alex Calvin, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 13:29 GMT <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p> <main readability=\"41.495756365452\"> <\/p>\n<p>Valve is giving greater support to the PS5 DualSense gamepad.<\/p>\n<p>The number of people playing games on <strong>Steam<\/strong> with a controller has doubled in the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to Valve, who wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/groups\/steamworks\/announcements\/detail\/2924487488167580236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a blog post<\/a> about its support for the newly-launched PlayStation 5\u2019s DualSense gamepad that using a controller was an increasingly popular way of playing games on the PC platform.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SebzB8W3bVU?feature=oembed\" alt=\"Please accept cookies to see this iframe.\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Historically, PC users have preferred mouse and keyboard over controller, namely for the sake of accuracy but also because it\u2019s often the easiest way of navigating complex games. Even those who did turn to gamepads often used the the Xbox One or Xbox 360 controllers, but PlayStation inputs have also seen an increase in popularity. Valve says that in the last two years, the percentage of those players using PlayStation controllers has risen from 10.9% to 21.6%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the past two years, the number of daily average users playing a Steam game with a controller has more than doubled, with millions enjoying the growing catalog of controller-friendly titles everyday,\u201d Valve wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn controller friendly games, the percentage of players for that game that use a controller can easily be 60% or higher. Some games, such as skateboarding games, have well over 90% of their players using controllers in game. The growth in controller usage has been even higher among players using PlayStation controllers, which has grown in the past two years from 10.9% of controller play sessions to 21.6% of all controller sessions across Steam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From the launch of the PlayStation 5, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2020\/11\/14\/dualsense-now-usable-steam-without-features-like-haptic-feedback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">people have been able to use its DualSense controller on PC<\/a>, though it was missing a wealth of functionality. Last week, Valve rolled out support for this gamepad, which gave it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2020\/11\/19\/dualsense-ps5-steam-support-dualshock-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the same level of support as the DualShock 4<\/a>, before introducing the full range of functionality for this controller.<\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup-wrapper\"> <span class=\"heading\">Subscribe to the VG247 newsletter<\/span> <span class=\"description\">Get all the best bits of VG247 delivered to your inbox every Friday!<\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup-form\"> <noscript class=\"response error\">Enable JavaScript to sign up to our newsletter<\/noscript> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/main> <\/p>\n<footer readability=\"1.738219895288\">\n<div readability=\"7.8219895287958\">\n<p class=\"affiliate-disclaimer\">Sometimes we include links to online retail stores. If you click on one and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. 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