If you have bought a new PS5 or Xbox Series X and want to take advantage of its controls with other devices, now you are in luck. The Steam Link application has been updated for both iOS and Android with interesting new features, although the most striking is that it adds support for these drivers on devices that use the Google operating system.
Steam Link for Android now supports next-generation controllers
When a user like you or us buys a console like the Sony Playstation 5 or the new Xbox Series X and S, what interests him the most, in addition to making the most of all its possibilities, is being able to make the most of even his command of control.
For the past few years, PS4 and Xbox One gamepads have been widely used with other devices. In the first place because they are super comfortable, also because having a Bluetooth connection was very easy to support mobile devices, computers and even other gadgets with this type of connectivity. And finally because since you had it you weren’t going to buy a new controller to play.
With the arrival of the new consoles like the PS5 or the new Microsoft X and S Series, your controls are now the ones that everyone wants to use at all times. Well, Android users are in luck because Steam Link in its latest update has added support for both controllers . Of course, they have to be connected via USB cable and that is why for the iOS version it is not yet available.
However, if you usually play the games running on your PC remotely on your Android tablet or phone, this news is sure to like you and is a first step to that future full support that also includes wireless use. That in the end is something that should come in a future update.
Steam on iOS improves support for the PS4 gamepad
In the case of the version for iOS devices, what this version has done is to improve the support for the controller version of the PS4 and Xbox One. In addition to an improvement in the support that there was for keyboard and mouse in both versions.
In addition, in this version of iOS one of the interesting points is that this improvement in the support of the PS4 game controller also adds the possibility of using the touch panel . And in the case of using them with Apple TV and tvOS, errors and problems are also corrected when dizzy certain controls.
Therefore, if you have recently bought a new PS5 or Xbox Series X / S and want to take advantage of its controls when you return to play a title that for some reason is only for PC or you prefer to do it on that platform, you can use them in a more convenient way. optimized via Steam Link. Let’s see, on a big screen we always say that the experience is lived in a much more satisfactory way, but sometimes you want to take a quick game from bed before sleeping.