Microsoft could make the Xbox One even more like a PC in time for the release of the Xbox One X.
Xbox One will get mouse and keyboard support in the near future, according to Microsoft’s Mike Ybarra.
“Keyboard and mouse support is definitely coming,” he told Windows Central. “We have to be very smart in how we do that.
Ybarra told Windows Central that Microsoft will give players and studios the choice when it comes to how to use the feature.
Developers will be able to decide whether or not to include it, while players can choose to play against users with mouse and keyboards, controllers, or both.
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“We’ll leave it a lot up to developer choice. A lot of people tweet me and say ‘you can’t do this because of fairness,’ and we understand that. We run two platforms; the Xbox platform, and the Windows platform.
“And so, when we bring keyboard and mouse, we’ll coach developers and say look, you’ve got to think about your multiplayer pools, if you have a competitive game, people are probably going to want the choice to say I’ll play with other keyboard and mouse people or I’ll play only with controller people, or that I’ll play with any of those.”
In terms of a release date, Ybarra said that mouse and keyboard support would launch “soon”.
“So you’ll see our first games supporting keyboard and mouse soon, I can’t announce what that is, but soon,” he continued.
“And based on developer interest, they’ll choose to do keyboard and mouse, or not!”
Having mouse and keyboard support ready for the Xbox One X would certainly make the powerful console more appealing to PC owners.
Microsoft’s impressive new console has a CPU that is 30% faster than that of the original Xbox One, while the GPU is 4.6 times more powerful than its predecessor.
Interestingly, the 8GB of memory – which is up from the 5GB found in the original Xbox One – allows the console to process art assets, making it easier to run 4K resolution visuals at higher speeds.
The full list of Xbox specs can be seen below…
- CPU Eight custom x86 cores clocked at 2.3GHz
- GPU 40 customised compute units at 1172MHz
- Memory 12GB GDDR5
- Memory Bandwidth 326GB/s
- Hard Drive 1TB 2.5-inch
- Optical Drive 4K UHD Blu-ray