Keyboard/Mouse Support for Unreal Tournament III on PS3!

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Warlord_ said:
I'm not seeing how this gives the players using a keyboard/mouse combo an advantage, i've always found that playing with a controller is much better.

The few times that games have allowed controller-based gaming to compete against keyboard/mouse-based gaming, the controller players have gotten demolished. Not just beaten, demolished. This is true for three genres: RPG, FPS, and RTS, which is basically every type of online competitive gaming, right now.

It's bad enough that Infinity Ward, Valve, and Id, among others, have specifically stated that they won't include cross-platform play in their games (CoD4, Team Fortress and HL2, among others) because it's unfair to controller users.

As others have said, controllers are fine, they have their place, and in a few genres they are superior; but for most skill-based gaming, there's mountains of empirical evidence suggesting that Keyboard/Mouse are simply technically superior. If you're more comfortable with the controller, no problem -- we're just talking technical proficiency.

For those who think I'm making things up (silly of me not to support with evidence!):

http://www.oxm.co.uk/article.php?id=554
http://kotaku.com/gaming/no,-thanks/infinity-ward-not-fans-of-cross+platform-play-269062.php 

The second article is particular significant. Relevant text:

Our rep left us a message saying 'hey, want to talk about this, Live Anywhere, it's big, it's cool', and I thought, well yeah, if you're playing online poker, but who wants to be playing an RTS on a console and have some guy on a PC clicking and dragging all his troops, attacking your base while you're sitting there with your thumb sticks. So I think for FPSs and RTSs, no way, but for, y'know, card games or Tetris or something like that. There are games that I think it's cool for, but there are other games where I don't think there's any point. So they just didn't respond.