Mouse and Keyboard Support Could Be Coming To the Xbox One This Year (theverge.com) 43
Over the weekend, Windows Central received a purported internal Microsoft presentation from earlier in the year detailing plans for mouse-and-keyboard support for the Xbox One. Microsoft has been teasing the support for years now, but it's finally becoming a reality soon. The Verge reports: Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell The Verge that Microsoft and Razer presented their plans at the annual Xfest event for developers earlier this year. Razer is planning to allow game developers to tap into its API to bring Chroma lighting effects to games. If all goes according to plan, Xbox One users will start to make use of this later this year with Microsoft's fall update for the Xbox.
Xbox gamers will welcome the addition of keyboard and mouse support, but some will question the impact on multiplayer games. Microsoft is allowing developers to detect whether a keyboard or mouse is present on an Xbox One, and games could potentially only match keyboard and mouse users with similarly equipped players. Balancing games will be down to developers, and Microsoft is offering up all the tools required to ensure games can implement the support in a variety of ways.
Xbox gamers will welcome the addition of keyboard and mouse support, but some will question the impact on multiplayer games. Microsoft is allowing developers to detect whether a keyboard or mouse is present on an Xbox One, and games could potentially only match keyboard and mouse users with similarly equipped players. Balancing games will be down to developers, and Microsoft is offering up all the tools required to ensure games can implement the support in a variety of ways.
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I thought they already had mouse/keyboard support in older xboxes? There are some games on xbox that I can't even begin to imagine being played with only a console controller.
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Multiplayer screws up so many games. Ie, Skrim, single player, you want to use a mouse, and Microsoft says "no, it's unfair for you to have a mouse". Stupid.
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Seeing as none of the current generation consoles allow mouse/keyboards, it's pretty hard for you to claim Microsoft is any further behind than anyone else.
Final Fantasy 14 has full keyboard and mouse support for our, so it's not like the PS4 can't do it.
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So much misinformation in your post
Seeing as none of the current generation consoles allow mouse/keyboards,
The PS4 most certainly DOES support them. The real quandary is that it isn't mandatory for games to support it, SIE leaves the choice up to developers. Some do, Most don't. Generally, text input is most commonly supported. Good examples are text chat in games or naming items in games like Skyrim.
If you look at the last two generations of hardware by the same companies (Sony, Nintendo, MS) none of their systems did this naively
This is also wrong. I've used keyboard and/or mouse with PS2 games. Often such support isn't mentioned on the box. Examples?
EQOA, the MMO. You could control the entire gam
xBox doesn't support a mouse or keyboard? (Score:2)
Seriously, this entire time I thought you could plug in a keyboard and mouse into any xBox and they'd work; I've just never needed to plug on in.
And according to MS, it won't support Bluetooth... (Score:2)
Hilarious...
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That's because SIE leaves the choice of letting the player use keyboard+mouse as game controls to the developer because it's not a TRC requirement.
Though as I've said, if a game uses the standard PS4 text widget for ANY reason, it has keyboard support for text input (USB AND Bluetooth are supported)
And there are games where you can use them for game control. War Thunder, Onigiri, Fortnite, DCUO, FFXIV. There's probably more I don't know of.
Now we're REALLY competing with tablets! (Score:2, Insightful)
It looks like the videogame console makers are finally getting wise to the rise of "mobile gaming" (which really just means games you can play on your phone or tablet). Given that even the cheapest $50 tablets can use a keyboard and mouse if you plug them into the usb port (not even counting bluetooth here), it's time for the xbox and playstation to catch up to 1998 tech!
Just imagine trying to play Adventure on an xbox. Maybe next hardware iteration, it will actually be practical.
I didn't think Xbox players could spell (Score:2)
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I don't recall the dev or the game.
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I don't recall the dev or the game.
Great example!
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The example I was thinking of:
https://www.gamesradar.com/pc-... [gamesradar.com]
A most recent example:
https://www.pcgamer.com/mouse-... [pcgamer.com]
TES6 (Score:2)
Maybe with this "innovation" Bethesda won't hobble the game play and UI of the next Elder Scrolls game like they did with Oblivion and Skyrim to make them console-friendly.
Auto-Aim (Score:2)
Will the keyboard and mouse still benefit from the normal auto-aim, or will it be disabled/optional?
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Aim Assist is almost always optional in any game that has it. You got a backwards compatible PS3 or PS2? Get a copy of PS2 Half Life, plug a mouse and keyboard in. You'll want to turn the assist off if you use a mouse, though I heartily recommend using hybrid controls for this game, use the controller to move, but the mouse to aim. I also recommend turning off the assist if you solely use the controller, the assist got in my way.
Deus Ex is similar.
Welcome to 1990 Microsoft ! (Score:2)
Congratulations Microsoft! It only took you ~30 years to add basic functionality that YOU supported in Windows 3.0 !
What's next -- dual TV support where I can play the game on one TV and view the map on the second TV ?
Meanwhile I could plug in a standard USB keyboard and mouse into a PS3 and PS4. Way to keep innovating!
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The name in development was DirectXbox
DirectX came out in September 1995, so 25 years and not 30.
But still...
My PC is WAY more powerful than a XBOX (Score:2)
What do they have that’s worth anything?
Halo? They can go fuck themselves with that. I couldn’t co-op with my friend thru the Halo 5campaign like all the other ones. Has soured me completely.
GoW? Good mechanics and gameplay but the characters and story suck.
Forza? I cannot say anything with this. Not a racing genre fan.