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Play Console Games With a Keyboard and Mouse
HunterX writes "Lik Sang took the videogame community by storm this weekend by announcing a new entry in its product catalog. The SmartJoy FRAG is an adapter that allows Xbox and PlayStation 2 owners to connect a mouse and a keyboard to the console and replace the standard controller with the well known PC combo that has been the envy of many console gamers for years. TeamXbox.com has more on the story, and there is plenty of commentary on Lik Sang's Forums."
This is going to ruin games such as Halo 2 on Xbox live.
I hate this. Way to try to un-level the playing field you bastards. Fortunately, I think that most people both won't know about this, and won't bother to pick one up because you can't just grab it at the store, like you could with the Dreamcast, for example. I also have the feeling that this will totally suck for those who try to use it anyway. It's not as if the games are programmed to handle the precision movement of a mouse, so it'll probably end up being somewhat awkward. Fortunately, I don't know anyone on Xbox Live that would even care about using a KB/M, seeing as most console-FPS gamers actually prefer using a controller anyway, or at the very least have gotten used to it. If not, they'd probably be playing them on the PC. I can see the usual Live A-holes doing this because they care so much about stats, but the average population, probably not.
**Honestly, I think if you are playing console games with a mouse and keyboard, it's probably time to buy a PC.**
why? if you think keyboard+mouse are the best way to play some type of games, why not use keyboard and mouse? what difference does it make if the thing running the game is a "console" or a "desktop computer"?
if console pads would kick so much ass for playing first person games pc gamers would buy them for usage on pc..
(of course it would be pointless if you could play the games on your pc - which you can't in some cases. sure you could just not play them but thats beyond the point..)
besides, these converters cost around 30 bucks, not 500...
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The lack of mouse/keyboard support has been the only reason why I would not give FPS on consoles the time of day. I was brutally tramatized by Halo's control scheme. Game pads do not cut it for me...
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Anyway, that's just my two cents.
The adaptor doesn't seem to have the port on it that the Xbox communicator plugs into.
This will make it much more annoying to make use of this thing online. Though I think that is a good thing, I get rocked bad enough online as is, if I were up against guys with superior controllers I would be murdered.
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Here you go!