{"id":4132,"date":"2022-07-28T10:15:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T10:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/28\/you-can-now-play-steam-games-using-your-retro-switch-controllers\/"},"modified":"2022-07-28T10:15:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T10:15:32","slug":"you-can-now-play-steam-games-using-your-retro-switch-controllers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/28\/you-can-now-play-steam-games-using-your-retro-switch-controllers\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Now Play Steam Games Using Your Retro Switch Controllers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Retro is the way forward.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Steam received a brand new update yesterday that might interest some of you who own one (or multiple) of the Switch&#8217;s retro controllers.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/steam-now-officially-supports-switchs-retro-controllers\/\">VGC<\/a> reports that Valve&#8217;s digital platform now supports the NES, SNES, N64, and Mega Drive \/ Genesis controllers. So you can play classics like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/glover\">Glover<\/a>, multiple Mega Drive games, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/chrono_trigger\">Chrono Trigger<\/a>, the <strong>Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters<\/strong>, and plenty more using the controller you were always meant to play with! or perhaps you can play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/elden_ring\">Elden Ring<\/a> with an NES controller if you so wish.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/07\/you-can-now-play-steam-games-using-your-retro-switch-controllers\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]You Can Now Play Steam Games Using Your Retro Switch Controllers<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Retro is the way forward.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Steam received a brand new update yesterday that might interest some of you who own one (or multiple) of the Switch&#8217;s retro controllers.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/steam-now-officially-supports-switchs-retro-controllers\/\">VGC<\/a> reports that Valve&#8217;s digital platform now supports the NES, SNES, N64, and Mega Drive \/ Genesis controllers. So you can play classics like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/glover\">Glover<\/a>, multiple Mega Drive games, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/chrono_trigger\">Chrono Trigger<\/a>, the <strong>Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters<\/strong>, and plenty more using the controller you were always meant to play with! or perhaps you can play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/elden_ring\">Elden Ring<\/a> with an NES controller if you so wish.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/07\/you-can-now-play-steam-games-using-your-retro-switch-controllers\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}