Razer, the world's leading lifestyle brand for gamers, and Microsoft. The long-awaited Razer Turret for Xbox One is now available for sale.
Neil writes: "The addition of the Razer Turret for Xbox One is perhaps the best temptation for any PC gamer wishing to cross the divide and come to the land of console gaming. After all, Razer owns the PC space, and that surely means they own the Xbox keyboard and mouse landscape too then?"
The Razer Turret for Xbox One now shipping and directly available from Microsoft and Razer. We got our hands on one early though to give you an unboxing and quick tour. Here's all you need to know!
Looks nice. Price is a bit steep for me at the moment. Wait for a big price drop before i bite.
Well....the keyboard is mechanical so automatically more expensive. But yeah.....still way too much. But they got that Xbox endorsement to pay for so...
Wccftech went hands-on with the Razer Turret, the mouse and keyboard combo coming to Xbox One with official support and integration, at CES 2019.
PC users have had an advantage for a while, this levels the playing field if you can afford it
Let me install Windows and Visual Studio on Xbox and then we will be getting somewhere. :-)
Most competitive games that have confirmed support for keyboard and mouse have also said they plan to have separate matchmaking dedicated to k/m or controller users.
I think Gears 4 is the only major game that has cross platform competitive gameplay atm, and it started off as a beta thing before seemingly being underused or not too unbalanced at least (gameplay in it isn’t the same as a regular FPS however). I doubt Halo Infinite will be throwing controller users in that world day 1 either, and is more likely to stay that way too as the bunny hop shooters see a big boost compared to most other titles (controllers usually having jump defaulted to face buttons which requires you to either jump or change camera but not both at the same without changing to something like bumper jumping—or holding the controller really weird which some can train themselves to do but I’ll never even attempt).
But then you also have the elite controllers that allow you to jump and shoot without taking your fingers off of the sticks/face buttons.
You can do that without the elite or scuf type of controllers... you just might get arthritis though.
Mouse+KB is a whole other level of advantage, in this kind of game. It only makes sense to segregate players based on input device.
Sticks are still sub par to Mouse too, especially once you add in auto aim (apparently Fortnite on consoles for example still has auto-aim even with mouse and keyboard).
So I was just giving one example. However, Elites fall into the “without changing things” section because you have to buy an extra controller and then still switch button mapping around. Same for any game, like Overwatch and some others, that have button swapping in game for any controller really.
"separate matchmaking dedicated to k/m or controller users"
I'm thinking k/m lobbys will be a bit empty in that case. Vast majority will stick to controllers, imo.
Who is this for? I mean, for the price of an xbox1x and this gear, you could by a comparable computer that would do a whole lot more.
People will still buy the Xbox, whether you think it makes sense or not. That's who it's for.
Current games confirmed to support mouse and keyboard thus far.
"X-Morph: Defense, Vermintide 2, Gears of War 5, Gears Tactics, Day Z, Deep Rock Galactic, Children of Morta, Moonlighter, Roblox (platform), Strange Brigade and Vigor, all gaming experiences announcing support for keyboard and mouse well as for Xbox Dynamic Lighting.
Fortnite, Warframe, War Thunder, Sims, Minecraft, Surviving Mars, Minion Masters, Warface, Wargroove, Bomber Crew, PUBG, all games announcing support for keyboard and mouse."
To drop that kind of money, I would want all my games be m&kb compatible.
The price is too high though.