How Many Controllers Redux

[joeymeboy98]

How many controllers can connect to a single device? I've seen the answer as four... but I saw a racing game that had 16 player local multiplayer, and I don't know if that means they increased the limit or If that requires remote play together.

[Cathulhu]

If a game supports SteamInput, you can in fact use 16 gamepads on one computer.
Can't imagine how playable that will be though.

[Wolfpig]

It most likely depends on how you connect the gamepads.

Wireless (bt, dongle) usually gets capped at 4-6 Devices as there is a limited bandwide available.

Direct connrctions per USB.... probably depends on the System.

But if you saw a racing game with 16 Player local that probably means that that is the supported number of players in a lan on 16 different machines.

[joeymeboy98]

What's Steaminput, and does it cap at 16?

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Microsoft wireless adapter has a limit of 8 controllers connected at one time to the same pc.

[ReBoot]

The answer depends on the game. There's no hard limit for concurrent gamepads. If you got enough USB ports (BT caps out @ 7), have fun and connect 20 of them or more. That's not related to Steam input though. Well, SI does play a role here, but in a different way from what you think.

HOWEVER, games tend not to support more gamepads than 4. So before you go ahead and plug your PC full with gamepads, you should check whether the game you want to play supports that many. So it's not a case of "them" having increased the limit, it's just that game devs can build games with support for 1 player, 2, 4 (or 3), 16 or any number, really, they can build a game around.

[joeymeboy98]

Thank you! One of my goals is to have as many controllers as each platform I possess supports, so for Steam I'll play it by ear. Does Steam list how many controllers are supported in each game, like how they list full controller support.

[ReBoot]

Nope. Of you don't want to go with the usual assumption, ask on the fake forum.