Controller for both Switch and PC/Shield Gamestream?

[Ginger Penguin]

Hi all,

 

I honestly don't play a lot of games but I do on occasion and it's mostly Nintendo games either on my Switch or some retro games I prefer to emulate on my PC for the upscaling capabilities. I've been mostly using keyboard and mouse for this but that's proving quite difficult in a few games. Plus I'd like to be able to Gamestream to my TV so I can play them in the living room so I don't know whether it would be better to connect wirelessly to my Shield TV or to the PC in the next room (it's a small apartment, it will be able to reach easily).

 

I would prefer the Nintendo layout of buttons and would like to be able to use it with my Switch as well as it never hurts to have a second controller for Mario Kart. I could buy a Pro Controller but I don't know how well that plays with Windows, especially with emulators like Xenia. There are some third party Switch controllers that look nice and I thought maybe they'd be more likely to work crossplatform.

 

Is this going to be possible with one controller? I'd rather just have one for everything but I get that might not be possible.

[ARikozuM]

8bitdo makes a bunch of them. 

[Ginger Penguin]

20 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

8bitdo makes a bunch of them. 

They do look compelling and about $25 cheaper than the Pro Controller. Just doing a quick search shows up some people raving about them and those hating them. They seem like they'd be good for D-Pad centric games but I can't imagine games mostly using the sticks would be too comfortable for too long. Maybe I'm just used to the asymmetric layout though.

[ARikozuM]

https://www.8bitdo.com/sn30-pro-plus/

[pannedandcanned]

20 hours ago, W.D. Stevens said:

Hi all,

 

I honestly don't play a lot of games but I do on occasion and it's mostly Nintendo games either on my Switch or some retro games I prefer to emulate on my PC for the upscaling capabilities. I've been mostly using keyboard and mouse for this but that's proving quite difficult in a few games. Plus I'd like to be able to Gamestream to my TV so I can play them in the living room so I don't know whether it would be better to connect wirelessly to my Shield TV or to the PC in the next room (it's a small apartment, it will be able to reach easily).

 

I would prefer the Nintendo layout of buttons and would like to be able to use it with my Switch as well as it never hurts to have a second controller for Mario Kart. I could buy a Pro Controller but I don't know how well that plays with Windows, especially with emulators like Xenia. There are some third party Switch controllers that look nice and I thought maybe they'd be more likely to work crossplatform.

 

Is this going to be possible with one controller? I'd rather just have one for everything but I get that might not be possible.

Pro controller is compatible if you do all your gaming through steam. However, getting my pro controller to work with emulators like Dolphin has been a pain in the ass to get working not to mention the very noticeable input lag with doing it. 

[Donut417]

On 5/25/2021 at 11:32 PM, W.D. Stevens said:

I could buy a Pro Controller but I don't know how well that plays with Windows

I used a Pro controller with Elite Dangerous. It only worked because Steam offers compatibility, which it doesnt work on all games.