For a while now Microsoft has stated that they will add Mouse and Keyboard support to the Xbox One at some stage, but this news has kind of fallen flat since it was announced earlier this year. Now speaking at a PAX West panel Xbox director Mike Ybarra has reminded fans that keyboard and mouse support is ‘definitely coming.’
‘We have to be very smart in how we do that. We’ll leave it a lot up to developer choice,” Ybarra said. “A lot of people tweet me and say, ‘You can’t do this because of fairness,’ and we understand that. We run two platforms; the Windows platform and the Xbox platform.’
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— Xbox E3 Fans 🎮 (@XboxE3Fans) September 2, 2017
Ybarra did state that he is aware of possible unfairness when adding in the controller option of Keyboard and Mouse, saying that developers will have to make the decision whether the want to add in both controller schemes in a combined lobby or keep them seperate.
‘If you have a competitive game, people probably are going to want the choice to say I’ll play with other keyboard and mouse people or I’ll play only with controller people, or that I’ll play with any of those,” he said. “So you’ll see our first games supporting keyboard and mouse soon; I can’t announce what that is, but soon. And then based on developer interest, they’ll choose to do keyboard and mouse going forward, or not.’
