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Nintendo Switch Pro Controller picks up Steam compatibility

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team, Valve has officially announced support for the
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Pro Controller via its Steam Input protocol.

To start playing with the controller, which Valve called "a great device with a feature set that pairs nicely with your Steam catalog," you must first opt into the latest
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From there, users can enable support for the Pro pad by ticking the ‘Nintendo Switch Configuration Support’ option under Controller Settings.

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Button layouts can also be adjusted in this section, with the welcome option to swap the A/B and X/Y buttons in your controller's configuration.

While the Switch's Pro Controller has been usable on Windows PCs via Bluetooth for a while now, getting it to work required third-party software, and even then the user experience provided was far from ideal.

Valve also stated that the Switch Pro Controller's "d-pad is ideal for fighting games and platformers and the gyro enhances aim in your action/FPS titles."

We also had great things to say about the excellent gamepad in our
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, praising its comfortability, battery life and unrivalled d-pad.


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