{"id":34457,"date":"2018-07-21T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/valve_makes_hori_pokken_tournament_dx_pro_controller_compatible_with_steam_in_latest_update"},"modified":"2018-07-21T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T17:00:00","slug":"valve-makes-hori-pokken-tournament-dx-pro-controller-compatible-with-steam-in-latest-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/21\/valve-makes-hori-pokken-tournament-dx-pro-controller-compatible-with-steam-in-latest-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve Makes Hori Pokk\u00e9n Tournament DX Pro Controller Compatible With Steam In Latest Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/valve_makes_hori_pokken_tournament_dx_pro_controller_compatible_with_steam_in_latest_update\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/valve_makes_hori_pokken_tournament_dx_pro_controller_compatible_with_steam_in_latest_update\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Pokken Controller.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/valve_makes_hori_pokken_tournament_dx_pro_controller_compatible_with_steam_in_latest_update\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/valve_makes_hori_pokken_tournament_dx_pro_controller_compatible_with_steam_in_latest_update\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Pokken Controller.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It was a pleasant surprise when Nintendo originally made the Hori\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokken_tournament_dx\"><strong>Pokk\u00e9n Tournament DX<\/strong><\/a> Pro Controller compatible with multiple other Switch games &#8211; enabling the use of it in the likes of\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\"><strong>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/strong><\/a> and even <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/sonic_mania\"><strong>Sonic Mania<\/strong><\/a>. In general, it&#8217;s been <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/09\/hardware_review_pokken_tournament_dx_pro_pad_by_hori\">praised<\/a> for its quality build that is ideal for fighting games and platformers, despite the obvious limitations.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone with a large library of games on Steam, you might be pleased to hear Valve has now added official support for the Hori\u00a0Pokk\u00e9n Tournament DX\u00a0Pro Controller. To use the wired USB controller on Steam, all you&#8217;ll have to do is update your client to the latest version and then plug it into your PC. Again, the controller is perfect for fighting games and platformers, particularly of the 2D variety. This isn&#8217;t the first controller for the Switch to be added to Steam, either. In May this year, Valve added <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/steam_has_added_nintendo_switch_pro_controller_support_in_its_latest_client_beta\">support<\/a> for the Switch Pro Controller.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tell us in the comments if you&#8217;ll be making use of Hori&#8217;s Pokk\u00e9n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>controller on Steam.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a pleasant surprise when Nintendo originally made the Hori\u00a0Pokk\u00e9n Tournament DX Pro Controller compatible with multiple other Switch games &#8211; enabling the use of it in the likes of\u00a0Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and even Sonic Mania. In general, it&#8217;s been praised for its quality build that is ideal for fighting games and platformers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}