Xbox One will soon support keyboard and mouse play
Phil Spencer revealed that Xbox One keyboard and mouse support is 'months away' in an interview with PCGamesN earlier today at E3.
Perhaps some of the best FPS games might be bearable to play on Xbox now?
The Microsoft Head of Xbox let a little detail slip to our intrepid reporter in the field Joel when talking about how the Windows 10 and Xbox One Play Anywhere system will interact.
"I keep talking about it in the press and my platform team keeps shaking their head, because they… Truthfully in our dev kit modes now keyboard works, mouse support is a little bit further away," Spencer said. "I say it because I know it’s not years away, it’s more like months away, but we don’t have an exact date yet."
The topic came up as Spencer discussed how notoriously difficult games to transition from PC to console could also benefit from the Play Anywhere system.
"Trying to take League [of Legends] and play it with a controller… or Dota… I don't know, maybe a designer’s going to try and tackle that problem, but those seem like natural PC games to me," Spencer said. "And I think that’s fine, and in that scenario you can still be an Xbox Live game and still be connected to all your friends, your save game can still flow with you from PC to PC. When we enable PC and mouse on console it’ll be interesting to see how many of those creators think about running their PC and mouse-only game on console, and then this idea of Play Anywhere might get even more interesting for those guys."
With Xbox games on Windows 10, and now playable with keyboard and mouse even if they're not, the singularity is approaching.
Project Scorpio sounds quite interesting now. 4K gaming and mouse/keyboard support, how's that not a gaming PC in essence?
Planned obsolescence for the entire platform (as in, no upgrades to keep with the times) and a walled garden ecosystem.
I'm not really saying it's bad, but those would be the arguments for it not being a gaming PC, I think.
Fair enough. I personally will remain PC, but I know friends who are avid console fans and hopefully this'll help persuade half of them into looking at PC, with the consoles pretty much becoming restricted PCs themselves (m/k and all).
I kinda saw this trend happening a while ago and a friend of mine and myself both made the switch from 360 to PC's and we feel it has been for the better. Most of the same games, cheaper games and we can play with any control devices. Plus mods are not just arriving they've always been here.