The Xbox One has official mouse and keyboard support, allowing those who favour that combination of inputs to play on consoles. Though many USB mouses and keyboards will be supported, the first official set comes via Razer. Released at this year’s CES, the Razer Turret is a mouse and keyboard combo that’s designed for couch play. There’s a slider mousepad that extrudes from the keyboard, while the whole set up is designed to be comfortable sat upon your lap. Razer has also released a list of existing and upcoming games that have full support for the pc-centric inputs.

Xbox is becoming a platform more than it is a console. I experienced that this playing Forza Horizon 4 on my PC, together with my wife who was playing the game on the ol’ Xbox One. Over the years Microsoft has been trying to position Xbox as ecosystem, so it makes sense that the Xbox One console would eventually begin supporting mouse and keyboard controls.

PC gamers, will of course, try to convince you that their office implements are the superior control system. For certain things, they’re right. Things like Excel, Word and Powerpoint. And also FPS games.

Microsoft are still working on tools to support mouse and keyboard on Xbox One, and fully understand the troubles it might bring to online competitive play.

The Xbox One is set to receive mouse and keyboard support, but it'll only be in a few mknths.

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