By Joe Osborne
Gamers have been waiting a long time for true, native keyboard and mouse support on the Xbox One, and that wait that may soon be over, thanks to Razer. Windows Central has apparently found documents revealing that the two companies are working together on the long-promised feature.
Rich with images of slides and promotional materials, Windows Central’s report talks of a presentation with game developers and other business partners that occurred earlier this year. According to the report, Microsoft was planning on launching the long-awaited feature through the recent April Update of the Xbox One developer kit.
During this presentation, Razer apparently joined in, showing off how its Razer Turret keyboard – one designed for couch-borne PC gameplay – could work natively with the Xbox One, and would include support for the company’s Chroma RGB lighting software.
A long time coming
The presentation supposedly goes on to detail how such peripheral support should be implemented into developers’ games, largely leaving it up to them to decide.
Microsoft goes on to suggest that supporting games that have online play should consider altering matchmaking rules so that mouse and keyboard players are set aside from players with normal game controllers, citing potentially …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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