Should I just stick with using Dualsense on my deck or get something like the 8bitdo ultimate/king kong controller?

  • OrkneyKomodo@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    The Dualsense is a really good controller. Would only change it if there was a compelling reason. Plus, if you still have a PS5, using the same type of controller for everything will make switching between systems less awkward for your muscle memory.

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      1 year ago

      I play on pc, ps5, and now steam deck. How fluently does dualsense work for pc and deck? Isn’t it x input? Still not sure what that means exactly. I used to using d Input xbone controllers.

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        1 year ago

        For PC, it is not xinput or anything that most games outside of Steam will recognize, but Steam will handle it just fine and if you setup a non-Steam game to launch through Steam then Steam will convert it to xinput for the game to understand.

        For deck, it’s fantastic, like a Xbox or Switch controller but with a touchpad. So depending on the game you could have it as a mouse, or three simple buttons(left, right, middle) or my personal favorite as a wheel of options, so you can stack as many as you want there(I find 6 to be the limit of my comfort).

        I’ve had mixed luck configuring the mute button(bottom of controller, toggles an orange light), for some games it works great for one more button, for others it doesn’t seem to recognize it, unsure why. This is literally the only downside I’ve seen with it and I use it a ton to play a variety of games

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          1 year ago

          So on pc if I launch games through something like Playnite it won’t see my ps5 controller?

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            I’m afraid I don’t know Playnite, googling it didn’t tell me much as far as compatability. You’ll have to try and see with that, it may be a game by game basis of whether it works or Playnite may have its own solution?

            I used to dual boot windows on my MacBook but stopped bothering when I got the Steam deck so I don’t really PC game anymore and never did with the ps5 controller.