Keyboard/Mouse Support for Unreal Tournament III on PS3!

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akuma587 said:

http://kotaku.com/gaming/click-and-type/unreal-tournament-iii-to-have-mousekeyboard-support-285986.php

Here is what one of the Epic designers said on their forums:

"Folks,

I checked with Steve Polge and he said that YES we are supporting keyboard and mouse in Unreal Tournament 3 on PS3. He is confident we are doing it in a way that will be balanced without feeling "gimped" for either side. We'll also allow people to choose whether or not they want to allow mixed controller vs. keyboard/mouse games or not.
I think you guys are going to love UT3!

More details to come later."

This is a pretty revolutionary step for consoles. As far as I know, and PLEASE correct me if I am wrong, this is one of the first times, if not the first time this has been done. I don't know if this can be done on the 360 because it has much more closed architecture. MS also doesn't allow peripheral keyboards that they didn't make...

Note: Some posters in the Kotaku thread said this change convinced them to buy the game for the PS3 or even to buy a PS3 instead of upgrading their PC. Any thoughts on that?

 

 

It's definitely a big deal to me, Akuma, and this means we are getting closer to being suited to my FPS/RTS tastes.