[QUOTE=FlakTheMighty;52218814]"but not mice"
So why even bother?[/QUOTE]
For chat i suppose.
[QUOTE=KenjiKusanagi;52218827]For chat i suppose.[/QUOTE]
"Let me just set down my controller so I can type" said no one ever, Xbone has 3.5mm jacks on it for headphones/headsets. You can use the microphone that's built in to Apple's earbuds ffs.
[QUOTE=FlakTheMighty;52218814]"but not mice"
So why even bother?[/QUOTE]
Mouse support is coming, it just won't be available immediately at the same time as keyboards.
It should be noted with this that it doesn't mean game devs can add mouse+kb support to their games. It only supports UWP apps at this time, of which games can be made in but they can't use the full power of the GPU and are limited 1.5GB of RAM and don't run in exclusive mode (like games) so don't expect to see Mouse+Keyboard support in the next Halo, for example.
[QUOTE=FlakTheMighty;52218832]"Let me just set down my controller so I can type" said no one ever, Xbone has 3.5mm jacks on it for headphones/headsets. You can use the microphone that's built in to Apple's earbuds ffs.[/QUOTE]
Yeah but let's take into account people like me for a second who, through years of being shittalked when using the mic as a kid, are really self-conscious about their voice online and prefer to use the microphone only with friends, and even then it's still push-to-talk because they don't want to be coughing at people. I can communicate by voice at the push of a button, and communicate by text if I want to.
I don't get this benefit on consoles, and I'd welcome the ability to leave a keyboard at my side to text chat with. This kind of shit is why I never did any of the raids in Destiny.
That said, it doesn't matter, because game developers [I]won't use it[/I]. Every Sony console since the fucking PS1 has supported M&KB, but nobody ever did anything with it except for a very small amount of games.
[QUOTE=FlakTheMighty;52218832]"Let me just set down my controller so I can type" said no one ever, Xbone has 3.5mm jacks on it for headphones/headsets. You can use the microphone that's built in to Apple's earbuds ffs.[/QUOTE]
I've put a keyboard on a XB360/WiiU before
its very very useful for avoiding using awful menu based keyboards
Don't most modern consoles support keyboards anyways?
I remember using one on PS3 for chat way back.
Wasn't there an article about developers not liking the idea of mouse and keyboard on consoles because it would bring unbalance in console multiplayer ? I think it was Blizzard who didn't want it for Overwatch.
mice will never come to consoles in any sort of wide adoption because the Call of Duty crowds would get mowed down by any handful of experienced PC gamers. In any shooter or rts, a mouse/kb player will positively shred any controller uses.
[QUOTE=FlakTheMighty;52218832]"Let me just set down my controller so I can type" said no one ever, Xbone has 3.5mm jacks on it for headphones/headsets. You can use the microphone that's built in to Apple's earbuds ffs.[/QUOTE]
People use chat all the time in Gears 4.
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