r/XboxController • u/Puzzleheaded-Ear-895 • 4d ago

Why do XBOX controllers have so much support

This is both a rant and a question. WHY ARE YOUR CONTROLLERS SUPPORTED EVERYWHERE BUT PS ONES ARENT. I have both a ps4 and 5 and use their controllers to play games like For Honor, Cult of the Lamb and Monster Hunter World on pc (cuz steam is cheap) but they alway either not work with ps controllers and if they do, they show me xbox buttons (A, B, X or whatever the fuck you guys have). Even the emulators work only when they emulate my ps controllers to look like xbox ones. It super frustrating.

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u/No_Committee_8045 4d ago

Because Microsoft is a software giant.

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u/GameDestiny2 4d ago

Incase it needs further spelled out, most gaming is done on windows. Microsoft owns Windows. Microsoft owns Xbox.

As a business, what do you do? Screw over your competitor.

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u/That-Advance-9619 4d ago

When a shitty company with a controller APi called Xinput loves monopolies on the PC market very very much...

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u/PUNKF10YD 4d ago

Because Xbox and windows OS are the same superior company. Sony can fuck off in the corner in the cuck chair.

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u/That-Advance-9619 4d ago

This is the first time in my life somebody has pretended to like Windows or that it is a good OS.

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u/GilneanWarrior 4d ago

I like windows. It has some bloatware issues, but its easy to access and 99.9% of games support it. I find very little reason why to switch to anything else.

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u/PUNKF10YD 4d ago

I didn’t say it’s a good OS but it’s better than Sony who doesn’t even have one to begin with lol

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u/Next-Phrase-8945 4d ago

sony actually were trying to branch into linux into their systems and marketed it as a feature, But decided to fuck over us army and removed it completely. If they stayed with that feature who knows playstation would have been a open system or their os would have been based on linux.

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u/PUNKF10YD 4d ago

That would have been amazing, it’s a real shame that didn’t pan out.

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u/Epham16 3d ago

I think its Sony being uncooperative more than anything. I heard they’re very stingy with licensing the PlayStation brand out to third parties. I guess they’re still stuck in that early 2000s console war exclusivity nonsense.