So with all this technology, how come we can't get a console w/native KB+M support?

[Ross Ridge]

So, how many times have you taken your own advice? Whenever you go to a restaurant and get bad service, do you immediately find a bunch of investors, put up a restaurant of your own and outcompete the first restaurant?

If all restaurants offered bad service all the time, then you'd have a point. But the consensus in the restaurant industry is that a restaurant should offer good service, and so most do. You can't make a business case for opening a new restaurant based only one bad experience.

On the other hand if you're convinced that the industry consensus is wrong, that console games would sell better if they all supported PC-style mice and keyboard control, well then that's a potential business opportunity. You might have a hard time convincing any other potential investors that you're right and everyone else is wrong, but you do have the basis for a business plan. People have made a lot money going against conventional wisdom. More often they lose a lot money, but that's business.

 

[Pia]

If all restaurants offered bad service all the time, then you'd have a point. But the consensus in the restaurant industry is that a restaurant should offer good service, and so most do. You can't make a business case for opening a new restaurant based only one bad experience.

On the other hand if you're convinced that the industry consensus is wrong, that console games would sell better if they all supported PC-style mice and keyboard control, well then that's a potential business opportunity. You might have a hard time convincing any other potential investors that you're right and everyone else is wrong, but you do have the basis for a business plan.

LOL, no. You don't have a basis for a business plan for busting into the console industry no matter how correct you are about any given single aspect of it.

 

[Ross Ridge]

LOL, no. You don't have a basis for a business plan for busting into the console industry no matter how correct you are about any given single aspect of it.

Uh huh. You were trying to equate that to busting into the restaurant industry based on poor service received once at a restaurant. There's a world a difference about being correct about one aspect of an entire industry than being correct about one aspect of a single restuarant.

 

[DivideBYZero]

This thread is now about cheesecake.

 

[BD2003]

This thread is now about cheesecake.

Yeah, talk about taking the bait.

 

[SunnyD]

Peripheral sales. If you had the option of selling a $40 proprietary controller, an additional $20 optional proprietary chat pad and a $10 headset versus the option of handing $20 to some no-name OEM for a keyboard and mouse, what would YOU do?

 

[Beev]

I definitely prefer console gaming to PC gaming these days (I used to loooooove PC gaming back in the Half-Life 1 days), but I think I would use a keyboard and mouse for FPS's if I had the option. I don't mind using a controller one bit, though. Just don't tell me to use the Move or Kinect :awe:

 

[tk149]

Peripheral sales. If you had the option of selling a $40 proprietary controller, an additional $20 optional proprietary chat pad and a $10 headset versus the option of handing $20 to some no-name OEM for a keyboard and mouse, what would YOU do?

This is what I was thinking. I would assume MS, Sony, and Nintendo have some kind of licensing deal that prohibits third party developers from implementing KB/M to some degree.