Xbox One keyboard and mouse support might be closer than you think

By Jon Porter

There’s a long list of advantages PC gaming has over console gaming, but that list is set to get one shorter soon with the addition of keyboard and mouse controls to the Xbox One family of consoles.

A (sadly now deleted) blog post on Microsoft’s Polish blog indicated that support for the control method of choice for PC gamers would be coming to the console soon, leading to an (and we should stress, this is their words, not ours) “Xbox Master Race”. With the post now removed however, it’s been impossible for us to verify the wording of this ourselves.

We’ve known mouse and keyboard support were coming to the console for a while. Mike Ybarra confirmed as much at PAX West earlier this year, and Phil Spencer has said that support is coming on a couple of occasions.

Not the first, but maybe the best

We recently saw that plugging a keyboard into the console could be used to open a secret options menu on PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, which is in line with previous comments made by Spencer about keyboards currently working but mouse support taking more time.

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Source:: techradar.com – Gaming