

The Dualshock 4 offers a total of 14 buttons 4.ģ: Excluding the home button, which does not seem to map to a controller inputĤ: 2 buttons are mapped to the L2/R2 triggers, which are also mapped to the X and Y Rotations The Xbox 360 offers a total of 10 buttons 3. The Dualshock 4 on the other hand uses 3 Axis and 3 Rotations for the same.Īccording to Windows' very own Game controller settings: The Xbox 360 controller uses 3 Axis and 2 Rotations as input for its two analog sticks and 2 triggers the triggers both share the Z-Axis. Here's to hoping Sony will release drivers to add XInput support to the Dualshock 4.Īs for the default key-mapping even if games accept input from the Dualshock 4, you might want to calibrate the controller to match the Xbox 360 controller's key mapping. In order to use the Dualshock 4 in games that only support the Xbox 360 controller, a wrapper is needed 2. The Dualshock 4 is a DirectInput device while the Xbox 360 controller uses XInput, which is the only API that most - if not all - modern games use. The light bar will continuously flash when pairing mode is activated.) (Hold down the Home and Share buttons together for several seconds to enable Bluetooth pairing mode.
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1 Connection is established via a Micro-B USB cable, or via Bluetooth on computers with a Bluetooth receiver. I decided to buy a Dualshock 4 and see for myself what works and what doesn't.įirst off: As promised, the Dualshock 4 works on Windows without the need to install additional drivers.
