Steam's adding official Switch Joy-Con support

The latest Steam client beta has added official support for Nintendo Joy-Con controllers, making it far easier to use Switch-style controls with your PC games.

On August 4, a Steam client beta update went live with two changes, the more prominent of which is this: "Added support for Nintendo Joy-Con controllers, both individually as a mini-gamepad and combined into pairs." The update also notes that Nintendo Online classic controllers now have "improved support."

It typically takes anywhere from a few weeks to a month for a beta update to go live on the main Steam client, so you can expect the feature to be available for everyone fairly soon.

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On July 27, Steam added official support for the Nintendo Online classic controllers - the modern bluetooth controllers made in the shapes of NES, SNES, Genesis/Mega Drive, and N64 gamepads which Nintendo sells directly through its own store. Yes, now, with official support for both N64 controllers and Joy-Cons, Steam finally supports all of Nintendo's worst controllers. Well, excluding the Power Glove, I guess.

Steam has had support for the Switch Pro controller for years, and while I'm not personally a fan of the Joy-Cons (even when I'm not suffering from Joy-Con drift), it's good to see more and more console controllers getting direct support for Steam Input. Valve's finally given us the dream land where our DualSenses, Joy-Cons, and Xbox pads can live in harmony.

Check out our guide to the best PC controller for gaming for a full view of all your game playing options.