It's been discussed before, and many people as well as the devs just don't think cross platform would work.

PC players have a rather large control advantage. Not only are the controls exponentially faster (your fingers are on all controls at all times) but the accuracy is also far greater at high rates of speed.

I doubt its a large control advantage, I have ten fingers as well !
When I play all my fingers are covering the required buttons for the position i'm in, I don't need to cover al the buttons, so we'll rule that out

Its been discussed (and i mentioned this elsewhere) but think about it.
With my keyboard, its a 1mm press to activate the movement keys.

What's your key rate set to?
The fact that you have to move/change your finger to change direction is a disadvantage compared to a controller and a joy stick, single thumb all directions

Its a 6mm+ MOVEMENT to change directions on the sticks.
No, see above my thumb is always on the joy stick that controls movement

Its i think a .3mm twitch to fire with my mouse, and upwards of a CM pull on a controller.
You could possibly stretch the controller to 0.5cm but most players will have it slightly depressed ready. Doubt if that would make that much difference

The responsiveness of the mouse and keyboard is obviously greater, and you CAN NOT argue it.
Yes I can, have you not heard any Monthy Python . Obviously, hhmm, moving the mouse over the pad is what 5cmX5cm min, moving the top of the joy stick is a circumference of 3cm


And you also cant really argue that the mouse is less accurate then a stick... Also, the accuracy falloff of a mouse is EXPONENTIALLY less then it is on a stick at high rates of speed.

When you consider the delay to correct the aiming, and the fact that theres a minimum you need to move the stick to change directions and correct aim/movement, where as (unless you set
otherwise) a mouse aims where you aim it, and stops where you stop it.

Hang on a minute, is that why my aim is off, the controller continues to move the graticule when i've stopped? surely not. Its the user that provides the over shoot and the mouse user will over shoot as well, admittedly there is less of a one to one feel to the joystick, but is compensated for by most good players.

You dont have to move a mouse back to some center to have it start arming the other way. You just start moving it the other way and its instant.
What's this all about, the joy stick has a central attraction but you don't have to pass through it anymore than the mouse has to pass over it

A skilled controller player can easily compete with PC players in the long run, but the reason it will likely NEVER be done, is because people will complain... And it will cause barrier issues, where pc users would likely blame the console users for a teams loss, or console users calling PC users cheap. Too many social issues, and you cant help that...

If you look at the forums people complain about the silliest things any way. The forums are filled with over sensitive gamers who want everything just so rather than thinking of ways to compensate and over come the issues.

PC players have a rather large control advantage. Not only are the controls exponentially faster (your fingers are on all controls at all times) but the accuracy is also far greater at high rates of speed.

Its been discussed (and i mentioned this elsewhere) but think about it. With my keyboard, its a 1mm press to activate the movement keys. Its a 6mm+ MOVEMENT to change directions on the sticks. Its i think a .3mm twitch to fire with my mouse, and upwards of a CM pull on a controller. The responsiveness of the mouse and keyboard is obviously greater, and you CAN NOT argue it. And you also cant really argue that the mouse is less accurate then a stick... Also, the accuracy falloff of a mouse is EXPONENTIALLY less then it is on a stick at high rates of speed. When you consider the delay to correct the aiming, and the fact that theres a minimum you need to move the stick to change directions and correct aim/movement, where as (unless you set otherwise) a mouse aims where you aim it, and stops where you stop it. You dont have to move a mouse back to some center to have it start arming the other way. You just start moving it the other way and its instant.

A skilled controller player can easily compete with PC players in the long run, but the reason it will likely NEVER be done, is because people will complain... And it will cause barrier issues, where pc users would likely blame the console users for a teams loss, or console users calling PC users cheap. Too many social issues, and you cant help that...

/OMGTrippleWTFFacepalm

Console players, STOP asking for km support on console... STOP!

It would DESTROY console FPS balance.

You have no idea wtf ur asking for.

If you want to play on a km, then play on a mother [censored] [censored] PC.

There ya go , scared of progress.

Progress brought us phones and gadgets to fill the holes where we extracted the coal to heat our homes.

It doesn't have to unbalance FPS's, the user could be presented only with games that the users prefer K&M, that would include all the platforms then, wouldn't it? or is there something else?.

There ya go , scared of progress.

Progress brought us phones and gadgets to fill the holes where we extracted the coal to heat our homes.

It doesn't have to unbalance FPS's, the user could be presented only with games that the users prefer K&M, that would include all the platforms then, wouldn't it? or is there something else?.

Except it's not progress....

And how many people do you think really want to go out and buy km for console? You gonna play in game lobbys with 3-4 other people?
You mean to say you don't have a mouse and keyboard lying around gathering dust, I'm sure 80% of the modern world houses have these.
Besides a keyboard costs ￡5 and a mouse costs ￡5 no big deal there. If the K&M was allowed then it could also include the PC gamers

very VERY few consolers want km control, so separate lobbies wouldn't work.

The PC is also better with hardware. Better framerates, better draw distances, faster draw, can handle more explosions, etc etc etc.

consoles are cheap POS's to be quite honest... BUT they have the SINGLE advantage of a FAIR and EVEN platform for ALL players.... So some rich [censored] can't just go shell out $2000 of daddy's money to get a sniping advantage

The PC display capabilities aren't relevant to the control mechanism argument, the data that goes over the network is important, the server couldn't give a monkeys what it got the data from.

I do agree that the current limiting to like for like platforms keeps it somewhat FAIR, but when you start playing multi player across the globe LAG/LATENCY hits hard and can put everything else in the shade.

The console may be moving away from the controller only input, we have the wiimote on the wii, the wiimo...err move on the PS3 and kinetic on the XBOX.
I suspect initially these will be bothersome to gamers but as they develop they could grab the upper hand.

How would the K&M fair against this type of input?
Would it balance enough to allow cross platform FPS?

Kinect can't do FPS...

move FPS will be a novelty.

Wii fps is a joke... well, sorta novelty I guess... poor gfx novelty

Motion FPS on a serious scale is YEARS off. We need full helmets so you can literally look anywhere, and probably a shooter specific gun controller.

I don't think they are ever going to have hardcoe FPS games with those motion controls why because all of these move things are family oriented and I think shooting someone in the face isn't that family friendly. Also would you be willing to try to play a FPS on those especially the Kinetic.... that would be a really weird concept