PC gamers whup Console gamers

The mouse / keyboard is a more precise instrument. It's like arming one team with catapults and the other with sniper rifles.

If MicroSoft wanted to try this again, they'd need to let console players enable some kind of targeting aid. But the PC crowd would get uppity.

I disagree with the idea that Microsoft pulled the plug because they thought it would give pre-emenence of the PC over the console.

Either way it's a net win for Microsoft. Either they increase gaming on a market where they dominate almost 100% or they increase gaming where they have a 30 some % of the market.

JimmyB27 said:

http://www.theinquirer.net/type/blog-post/category/numb-thumbs

The idea was to pit people with a mouse and keyboard against people with an Xbox controller in an FPS, and they were surprised when the keyboard and mouse crowd dominated?

I never got FPSs on consoles, even Goldeneye would have been infinitely better on a PC.

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Heresy! The only way to play Goldeneye is with an N64 controller in each hand.

JimmyB27 said:

http://www.theinquirer.net/type/blog-post/category/numb-thumbs

The idea was to pit people with a mouse and keyboard against people with an Xbox controller in an FPS, and they were surprised when the keyboard and mouse crowd dominated?

I never got FPSs on consoles, even Goldeneye would have been infinitely better on a PC.

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I've only played on PCs, but I've watched people play on Consoles and it looked to me like there was much looser relation between the person, the controller and the screen. PC players sit up close to the screen and have calibrated, weighted mice and ... well the keyboard has a lot more buttons.

Anyway, you can't play Operation Arrowhead on anything but a pretty powerful PC (and that's all I'm playing these days):

http://www.arma2.com/demo/arma-2-operation-arrowhead-demo_en.html

This is yet another of those Least Surprising Things Ever. Mouse+KB will wreck controllers in any FPS any day.

I think it's personal preference. Though, the auto aim on consoles is a bit of a bother.

SPMiller said:

This is yet another of those Least Surprising Things Ever. Mouse+KB will wreck controllers in any FPS any day.

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One thing I've learned in my 30 years of computer gaming is that the
mainstream media cannot make heads or tails of what is going on
in the gaming world. If you tried to follow gaming via the media, you'd
think that Grand Theft Auto was the most astounding game of all time
and that sitting on the couch punching a controller was just the
most incredible way to become highly skilled at anything at all.

I'm not sure that the mainstream media even knows exactly what
an FPS is or that it is a very catch-all sort of generic definition.