well xbox 360 has voice chat so i dont see why its so essential for a mouse and keyboard.

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keyboard? for why? it's a console not a PC >.<

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Hopefully you should know by now that yes it does support the keyboard and mouse like most of the new consoles.... The reason someone would want to use the keyboard is easy. Games like Phantasy Star Online you do alot of chatting on and its way faster to use a regular keyboard then to scroll and try to chat using a virtual keyboard or premade messages. To answer your question though, yes any gaming console that has usb ports will more than likley support a keyboard and/or mouse.

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Isnt it no because they don't want to give the keyboard players the advantage over controller players in FPS? isnt that the reason why Halo 3 didnt come out for PC?

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Accually it would move people to the console because most gamers use a keyboard and mouse, people arnt buying 360's because this feature isnt available, if it was, there would be a hell of alot more 360's around

-nick

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The reason microsoft doesn't allow keyboard and mouse support is because they want people to buy their controllers, if you could use any $5 keyboard and $5 mouse with any xbox, they lose around $30 per xbox360, there are 11 million xbox 360s sold in north america, so that's 330 million dollars in jeopardy jsut so some people can use mouse and keyboard for FPS... I Personally will buy a third party peripheral like the XCM XFPS but don't hold your breathe for Microsoft to come out and support K&M it just wont happen.

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If they added keyboard and mouse support then of course people would still buy their controllers, because remember that you need at least two controllers to play with your friend in co-op for instance!

-JNokikana

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Don't buy XCM's XFPS.
Imagine playing a pc game but your mouse jumps 20 pixels at a time, no smooth aiming, sniping is impossible. The only advantage that XCM's XFPS gives is that you can turn around really fast just like with a PC game, but with the "deadzones" of the mouse it is simply a worthless paperweight for me, I'm better off with the xbox controller, and I suck with the xbox controller.

Now as far as losing money because PC users would own the controller users, its possible to separate the populations. I myself am a PC gamer but as my responsibilities grew my disposable income shrunk. I don't want to spend a grand every year upgrading my PC. I'd buy a next-gen console every other year if I could use the keyboard and mouse to play xbox games with other keyboard and mouse xbox users, or even PC gamers.

Xbox could still take over the livingroom, but they could also dominate the PC gaming market as well, both with the 360.

Imagine buying orange box for the 360 that came with a CD to install the an orange box server on one of your PCs, then sticking the xbox game in your xbox, and with keyboard and mouse, play your orange box online, on a player hosted PC.

Dude, they'd blast open the PC market with a flood of new PC gamers.

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Replying to Trap FeedBacker

Try a $90 mouse and $70 keyboard... You get what you pay for.

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Now I read and reread everyone post .

Some of you had great points and some of you simply threw out half baked ideas that would make a cocked chicken cry.

As for MS supporting keyboard and mouse , forget about it.

It will never happen. I read someone's post and I agree with the fact that ms wont make enough money selling their controllers. Secondly most of the computer games are designed for pc. Most pcs operate with windows as thier main platform. Most windows are supported by a ms mother board and most viruses aim for destroying your mother board.

What I am trying to say is that ms make more money just selling the console the way it is than to start supporting KB & Mice. They would gain alot of xbox gamers yet lose lots of pc customers that regularly spend over 1k a year updating parts and pieces of their computer.

In case you didn't know Nvidia and ATI and particularly owned by MS as well. So to draw a conclusion on this question its like the fact with gas prices. WE have new energy sources yet we wont realize them because most of republicans own the gas industries and they can not afford to lose money.

Big bs companies sets rules and us consumers are trapped and have no choice but to follow. They force the consumer into what they advertise baised on their own economical strategies and not what the consumer needs and wants .

-reply by Xbox Is in my blood

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