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WoodenPints said:

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48 million players use controllers on Steam
https://www.pcgamer.com/48-million-players-use-controllers-on-steam/
In a recent developer announcement about Steamworks tools, Valve gave some insight into the number of players using controllers on Steam, which is higher than ever and rising. "48 million players have used a controller in a game on Steam," writes Valve, with about 10 percent of daily game sessions being played with a controller."
Naturally these figures vary wildly across genre: for RTS games that figure is "frequently below 1 percent" whereas "many sports and fighting games see over 70 percent of sessions played with a controller, while racing and skating games can easily have over 90 percent of players using a controller." Third-person action games, your Assassin's Creeds and so on, fluctuate between 40-50 percent of players using controllers, while for FPSs it's "solidly in the range of 7-8 percent."

Cool, I only game on a controller with my PC plugged into a TV. It's interesting that if you would remove the esports multiplayer titles and PC exclusive genre's like strategy the % of controller gamers shoots up quite high in most single player games.

Controller support is already superb on Steam with 468/676 games in my collection either having full support or partial support which from every game I've played so far that says partial has been full support anyway or with something like a launcher to click play or having to click start on the title screen with a mouse (which I do on a controller anyway). For the remaining games that don't support it there there is usually good user made presets you can enable from Steam big screen mode.

I was actually surprised by some of the numbers as well. For example, I find it hard to understand why some would play an FPS with a controller on PC given how much better the k-board & mouse combo is, but there's an almost 10% of users that prefer to use one. I guess they're like you and play on a TV using the Big Picture mode.

And, on the other side, Third person action games usually play much, much better with a controller, specially if some form of driving is included, so learning that only half the players use one for those games is quite surprising.