Microsoft killed cross-platform project because PC gamers wrecked console gamers

Been reading comments here and elsewhere throughout the net and I'm sensing a lot of people missing a major point here. This is about how KB/M is more accurate then a controller and NOT that PC gamers are better then console gamers on an equal basis. If you are a competitive player on either platform you can easily adapt to the other system. Your twitch reflexes and understanding of shooters doesn't just disappear when switching and should give you a competitive edge until you learn the system better. If your a good shooter you'll likely be a good shooter on any system given the time to learn the controls. If anything this should encourage competitive and professional gamers to play on a PC due to its higher degree of accuracy and better hardware.

The only thing I didn't really like about that blog post was how he kind of declared console gaming complete phail. It's been a very lucrative industry for decades now and I don't think that people are going to give up their recliners to mash at keys just yet.

Microsoft could have turned this around to a money-making opportunity by relying on the weakness of the controller for this game and selling a mouse-and-keyboard pack for the xbox on the side.

//h3X

Perhaps the next gen of consoles or the next after that willl be powerful enough to run games at a solid 60+ fps and offer true digital M&K control as an option. At some point it seems inevitable that the line between consoles and PCs will blur until there is no more line and PCs is all that will remain.

Is gears of war a cross platform game? If so, I wanna buy it (assuming the service is still available for the existing games)

Gears of War 1 is.

Remember though that they even pitted crappy PC players against the best console players and the console players still got dusted.

I'm a 30 something who in the last 20 years has only really played the battlefield series of games (about 6 years ago) and I'm only average at best. Now my son is getting older and has games like COD I try and play with him and just can not get to grips with the controller no matter how much I practise. My teen nephew is pretty damn good with a controller but still nothing like when he uses the PC. I didn't even realise there were people who really believed a controller was better for FPS style games.

I've done that with Team Fortress 2. I use the xbox 360 controller for the right hand with all the special action keys mapped to each button and a wireless mouse for my right hand. The only problem, though, is that the 360 controller can sometimes be too bulky to grip for one hand.

I wonder if they have autoaim helper on for the console gamers, it doesn't say in the article.

There's no doubt about it, for FPS mouse and keyboard it's the best option.

I have 2 xbox 360 controllers and they are very confortable, but are unaccurate. I'm playing Left 4 dead with them and I got used to it really fast, but I certainly don't get as many headshots as I used when I played it with my mouse and keyboard a year ago.

Games like PES 2010, DMC 4, Dirt 2 are much better to be played with Xbox controller.

Um ...the obvious question is...why don't they have a keyboard /mouse for the xbox360?

Or why is the question actually "why don't you know about it?"

haha
it's just more fun use a keyboard and mouse than use the other controller

I agree keyboard and mouse is the much better than the controller.

To me, it's not about which is best... it's about how I want to play the game. Mouse and keyboard is superior to a pad in every way, but it has one major drawback... you have to be at your computer desk! Sometimes I wanna just lean back in the couch with a pad in my hands, playing games on the big screen. Actually I prefer it.

That being said, I wouldn't wanna have to compete against mouse/keyboard players while "weilding" a pad myself. Take Resident Evil 5 as an example (even though it's co-op). You can play the game with a mouse and keyboard or you can play with a pad. My friend always use mouse/keyboard and I prefer the pad. He'll kill pretty much everything and I'll unload into empty air, screwing up my hit percentage and thereby lowering my score (which is listed at the end of every chapter).

Playing 1st person and 3rd person shooters with a pad will never been optimal, but that doesn't mean it can't be fun! And my butt does prefer the soft couch compared to the torture device of a office chair that I'm using at my computer desk.


-Hoodling

I think Nintendo could benefit most from the fps games in the future. Imagine playing Call of Duty when you're holding the controllers like an actual gun. Only problem I'd see is straffing and 180's. But ya the demo's I've seen of console users are just not fluid movements.

LOL, this is still alive ....oops sorry!

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@ Guest - on July 26, 2010 12:51 AM - SONY already made this & it's call the MOVE ...

in fact for console gamers to match a little the precision of the M&K combo, better use controller-less settings, the 3 major actors are already on the path of making it more interesting for their hardcore gamers, let the WII-motion plus, but was quite good with resident evil, MS with Kinnect still doesn't show a good 1-1 recognition but next gen may be great if they have the hardware to max it out. SONY showed with SOCOM 4, that it's possible so why not after all.

WOW, this thread is still ON, LOL, but i guess like as usual i'm the one posting last

cheers!

uh... derka derka... my PC has a 52 inch sony hooked to it... i play on my couch as well

My little brother was right, he always said people playing pc fps games had a huge advantage or console gamers with there mouse and keyboard.

Over not or what the hell still sleepy, furthermore I feel retarded playing mow2 on my xbox 360. But to be fair I have only had it a week. This must be why I suck yeah uh I blame the controller!