It has been almost a year since Microsoft showed its first plans to bring support for a keyboard and mouse to the Xbox console, although to date nothing has been officially known in this regard.
However, now new leaks have been released that shed some light on the way Microsoft is about to offer compatibility with a keyboard and mouse for the Xbox, what's more, there is talk that could be associated with others suppliers for all this. In fact, a leading manufacturer of hardware for games, has already partnered with Microsoft to offer its own keyboard and mouse support for the aforementioned Xbox.
On the other hand, other leaks related to all this, detail how they are planning to give this support for certain titles of the console for which the arrival of these components would be very appreciated. At the same time details have been given about the guidelines and features for this mouse and keyboard support, although the main drawback is that a console can only support a keyboard and a mouse.
Thus, with regard to the supported mice, the existing USB devices, including the wireless ones that work with the Microsoft Windows system, can be used, while they will also be supported without custom drivers.
The arrival of the mouse and the keyboard to the Xbox, closer than ever
Keep in mind that these use the same APIs as the Universal Platform of Windows or UWP. On the other hand and to avoid the improper use of these peripherals, plans have been designed to introduce new APIs that can find and block them.
There has also been talk about the important impact that this arrival and compatibility would have on the Xbox multiplayer titles, so it will try to find the right balance so that players using commands can face those who use a keyboard and a mouse, although Microsoft itself also suggested the use of separate pairing rules for this.
Now we just have to wait for Redmond to finally make the decision to bring to light this compatibility with mouse and keyboard for the Xbox, which surely would be very appreciated for much of the community. In fact it is also speculated that with the arrival of Windows 10 Redstone 5 next fall, in Xbox appear at the same time several titles that could only be played with these two peripherals.