Microsoft: We Won’t Ban the Use of Keyboards and Mice With Our Games
While Microsoft hasn’t enabled the support for such devices on the Xbox One and Xbox One X just yet, they are looking into it. And today, Xbox program head Mike Ybarra decided to take to Twitter to address the matter, explaining that, while he sees certain issues with using a keyboard or mouse, the company isn’t likely to place a ban on using them with games. That said, though, he isn’t stopping key publishers from deciding for themselves.
When a fan asked Ybarra about any plans to keep people from using keyboard and mouse adapters to play games on Xbox (a temporary solution until official support is added), Ybarra explained, “Developers have the choice to use APIs that detect and not allow these. It’s up to them, but the capability is there.”
The conversation continued with a few more Twitter users, to which Ybarra added, “Our general approach is to empower the developer to manage their game how they want.”
He also noted that the addition of the control method can be “helpful” in certain scenarios, such as enabling players that can’t normally use a game controller to still take part in game sessions. And there’s always the option of Microsoft implementing certain tools so that players that use mouse and keyboard controls can play separately from those with controllers – although, again, this is likely to come down to a decision by game publishers.
Microsoft hasn’t provided an official date as to when it’ll be adding official keyboard and mouse support to Xbox One, but with E3 just a few months away, you never know – it could be one of the announcements that’s coming up.
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Source: http://comicbook.com/gaming/2018/02/19/microsoft-no-ban-keyboards-mouse-support-xbox-one/
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TomPosted:
Keyboard and mouse are usually really great for accuracy on games which is why some players use it for those FPS games. I personally dont see a problem if they did go ahead and ban this since ive never used keyboard or mouse on my xbox, but probably some players will be disappointed.
GhostPosted:
Could bring a few PC users & make good players even better. I prefer controllers however, a lot of people prefer mouse & keyboards. It's more accurate and pretty cool. I do play GBs/competitive cod, so this could be quite annoying lol. Glad they changed it though, more comfortable customers the better.
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