{"id":107879,"date":"2016-10-13T08:43:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T06:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=107879"},"modified":"2016-10-13T08:44:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T06:44:58","slug":"steam-will-fully-support-dualshock-4-controllers-on-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/107879-steam-will-fully-support-dualshock-4-controllers-on-pc","title":{"rendered":"Steam will fully support DualShock 4 controllers on PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has revealed\u00a0that it will be adding native DualShock 4 support on\u00a0Steam, reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/blogs\/LarsDoucet\/20161012\/283057\/Steam_Dev_Days_Steam_Controller.php\" target=\"_blank\">Gamasutra<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Valve&#8217;s Jeff Bellinghausen announced the feature at the company&#8217;s Steam Dev Days event.<\/p>\n<p>Steam will be adding\u00a0support for a number of controllers, with the DualShock 4 simply being the first to get full native support.<\/p>\n<p>Bellinghausen stated that the DualShock 4 has similar functionality to the Steam Controller, allowing the Steam API to easily support the device.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Believe it or not, when you use the PS4 Controller through the Steam API, it&#8217;s exactly the same as a Steam Controller. You make the exact same API calls, you only get actions, not inputs, and the Steam API takes care of everything,&#8221; Bellinghausen said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not only is it a really nice, high quality controller, but it&#8217;s also got a gyro and a touchpad, so it&#8217;s got a lot of overlapping functionality with the Steam Controller.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company has not\u00a0mentioned which\u00a0other controllers it plans to add support for.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to Why you should set up a gaming PC in your living room\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/104677-why-you-should-set-up-a-gaming-pc-in-your-living-room.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Why you should set up a gaming PC in your living room<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has revealed that it will be adding full native support for the PlayStation 4&#8217;s DualShock 4 controller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":107881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585,7,3],"tags":[31,9148,13610,22753,22751,15397,1870,85,17480,697],"class_list":["post-107879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","category-hardware","category-pc","tag-active","tag-controller","tag-dualshock","tag-full","tag-native","tag-pc","tag-playstation","tag-steam","tag-support","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}