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Yeah that's not how it works. You use a game controller on a console because that's all they have.

There's nothing a controller can do, that a simple mouse and keyboard can't do better.

Now you'll say you are kick-butt with a controller and terrible with a PC. But that's because of the 10000 hours you've spent on a console.

The user-bandwidth available thru a mouse and keyboard is like an order of magnitude higher than a controller with bang-bang 'joysticks'. There's a reason online gaming separates PC clients from console clients. Just watch the console users trudging around a virtual landscape like a tank, turning jerkily and aiming erratically. Then watch a mouse virtuoso leap about like a ninja and literally run circles around the console folks.




>There's nothing a controller can do, that a simple mouse and keyboard can't do better.

Analog control for a flight sim or racing game. Mouse and keyboard is absolute shit for those.

Platformers also really aren't great.


Fighting games too. You can argue that a fight stick is preferred, but a controller is an order of magnitude better than a keyboard.




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