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Playstation vs XBox style gamepads on PCs (Steam)

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I was looking around the Steam website and found this "Steam encourages developers to include controller support in their games including PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo controllers."

 

That made me wonder...as far as Steam and/or PC's are concerned...isn't one gamepad just like another...some random USB device with buttons? Does it "know" that this one is a PS style vs and XBox?  (and I guess I'm wondering about non-brands....I have a Logitech dual stick that I use that's like a PS2..i think..controller...should I look into an XBox one for some games?)

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Windows has separate APIs for Xbox pads and standard game pads, it can tell the difference in that case however afaik PlayStation pads don't work natively and require additional drivers and Nintendo pads only work through Bluetooth.

 

I'd imagine it still wouldn't be difficult to detect which pad a user is running through device IDs though.

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1 minute ago, Master Disaster said:

Windows has separate APIs for Xbox pads and standard game pads, it can tell the difference in that case however afaik PlayStation pads don't work natively and require additional drivers and Nintendo pads only work through Bluetooth.

 

I'd imagine it still wouldn't be difficult to detect which pad a user is running through device IDs though.

Do you mean official branded xbox pads? Would it see a walmart xbox controller as xbox or other?

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19 minutes ago, Video Beagle said:

Do you mean official branded xbox pads? Would it see a walmart xbox controller as xbox or other?

It would see it as an XBox controller mostly. The drivers used are same and the PC is kinda fooled into thinking its an Xbox pad

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