This is coming from a video on Twitter that captured Ybarra’s response to a question about KBM support on Xbox One. In order to bring KBM to Xbox One, Ybarra said that Microsoft will “leave it a lot to developer choice” as to whether game-makers want to bring KBM to the console. On top of that, Microsoft will “coach developers” on how to best integrate KBM, especially when it comes to competitive multiplayer games like first-person shooters and real-time strategy games.
“If you have a competitive game, people probably are going to want the choice to say, ‘I’ll play with other keyboard-and-mouse people, I’ll play with only controller people, or I’ll play with any of those,'” Ybarra said.
Mouse and Keyboard are still coming… pic.twitter.com/jbzcQvAsyS
— Xbox E3 Fans (@XboxE3Fans) September 2, 2017
While it sounds like the first KBM-supported games on Xbox One are coming soon, Ybarra did not specify which games will first introduce the new-to-Xbox One control scheme. Our best guess is that real-time strategy spin-off Halo Wars 2 will be the first game to get KBM support on Xbox One, as Phil Spencer had previously announced that KBM support was coming to the console version of the game prior to its release in February 2017.
While Ybarra’s recent info-dump about KBM support might seem promising, we’ll believe it when we see it. KBM support for Xbox One has been in the works since at least 2015, and Spencer even said that KBM was “months away” back in June 2016. Most recently, at Microsoft’s Build 2017 conference back in May, a senior program manager said that Xbox One dev kits for Creators Program developers would be getting full keyboard support, though nothing concrete was ever mentioned about mouse support.
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