Okay I'll pitch n as an RTS fan, I've played them for years and it;s my most favourite genre of them all.
I have played my fair share of RTS games on consoles and PC but PC is currently my main source since consoles don't have enarly as many as PC does. The most recent RTS I played on consoles was C&C Red Alert 3 and C&C 3/Kanes Wrath, all 3 of those games as far as I know use the "command wheel" system since the games make use of the gamepad and the gamepad only, at the time it was somewhat good but as time went on the command wheel and commanding/grouping your units and selecting them started to feel quite tedious, until I went back to playing them on PC I found I was a lot more accurate and quicker in my actions with the K+M.
The thing is the gamepad can definitely more or less do a few RTS games and I;d imagine the Steam gamepad doing the same but at the end of the day it won't be superior to the M+K setup, RTS games were designed with those in mind from the start and they will for the time being, they are just more accurate than a gamepad.
I'd want to game on the couch with the gamepad like I do with my 360pad hooked up to my PC but I only use that for games that play better with the gamepad, I don't try forcing it on every other game that might support it.
I could assure you though that if you wanted to play off against someone in an RTS with a gamepad vs K+M, the latter would win with response time and accuracy.
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