Because office gear ist not a game controller. You have to design games around the limitations of these input devices meant for something else.
A modern game controller is not just 14 buttons, the SNES/PS1 age is two decades in the past.
QED. That thing is outdated since five years and doesn't represent the current state of art. Its design is 13 years old now. Nobody supports the 360 controller on consoles anymore, because it has a superior successor. You're proving my argument.
Side note: Microsoft started selling that controller for PCs to establish a baseline with Xinput. And failed. Controller support on PC is still a complete hit and miss. Because PC users barely own any. Even with your 360 you're already part of an elite. Most people never make it past $10 bargain bin controllers.
As a matter of fact, people use the cheapest crap as peripherals after all the budget has gone to the GPU. Back then they started released PC games on DVD instead of CD (that was in 2004 two years before Bluray), people complained they couldn't read them, while consoles accepted DVDs since 2000. The story repeated with GTA V for PC, which got a 7 DVD release for PC, while the first console adopted Bluray in 2006. Of course, nowadays PC games don't have any disc in the box anymore (downloading all content from app stores like mobile phones, with people complaining about download sizes now).
That's the thing with consoles: They offer game developers a nice baseline to rely on: A big HD capable screen with multi-channel sound, a certain APU with a certain amount of memory, a certain amount of storage (currently 50 GB), a modern high quality game controller with many features to design gameplay around. (Ever seen a PC game using an accelerometer ever? That's a video game standard now.)
The only thing they can assume on PC is some version of Windows with one of two barely compatible 3D driver stacks, a green one and a red one, for everything else you have to go with the lowest common denominator. Anything that has any additional requirements (even the five years old console baseline) sells like crap. (BTW: The most common amount of VRAM on Steam ist still just 1 GB.) That's why many devs don't even bother with porting games.
The Xbox controller doesn't feature touchpads, accelerometers or gyros. So for multiplatform titles like DOOM (2016) they are the lowest common denominator. Thank Microsoft.
People spending that amount of money on PCs are a niche within a niche. The countries with the largest PC gaming crowds have them, because they can't afford console games (nor pirate them) or game consoles were simply banned completely (like in China). As for optical drives in PCs: They fell out of use, because people were cheap and stuck with DVD drives until DVD itself became obsolete. Might have to do something with that copying Blurays never became a thing.
Gaming PCs are far worse on average. Steam measures 1-2 GB VRAM for the majority of their customers in 2018. The PS4 launched with 8 GB GDDR5 in 2013 and has a 80 million install base now. This is why game developers like to go there.
I have a different PoV. Running games from a slow optical disc drives never was an advantage. The (needed) move to installing on hard drives is fully justified. While the disc is a convenient high-density physical distribution medium, it's not suitable as a (Flash-)ROM cartridge replacement.
It's in the August 2018 Steam Hardware Survey.
Though "gaming keyboard" is a bit of a oxymoron to me. And at that price level that hardware aims for a sub 0.1 percent install base.I honestly didn't come into this discussion to argue for or against consoles vs PCs, because both have their target audience, and their purpose. But even on PC there's tech and tech. It's hard to compare a good console controller to Babby's first microsoft ps/2 compatible mouse and a 101 button rando keyboard vs. something like this combo for instance: https://www.roccat.org/en-HU/Products/Gaming-Keyboards/Skeltr/ and https://www.roccat.org/en-HU/Products/Gaming-Mice/Leadr/
Guess all I'm trying to say there are a few of us who are trying to do office equipment a bit more properly then a bargain bin two button mouse from Tesco
Well, I have Steam library with rouhgly 500 games. If I choose a random one to install and launch it, there is 50 % chance it won't work (out of the box).
I find a dedicated game controller to be superior to office equipment.
I don't own a single game which supports local multiplayer on PlayStation. In fact all my local MP games are on PC.
Just wait another five to ten years, then try again.
I have 25 years of PC gaming in my bag, I know my way around. You don't need to explain to me how digital platforms work. I have every PC game I own downloaded and installed. That's about 3 TBs BTW.
You can't play Windows games via emulator.
Wrong, Nintendo sells NES/SNES emulators for their consoles since years.
You realize that I already own all the platforms I have games for?
Yes, they equip office equipment with fancy RGB LEDs and attach the label "gaming", so they can ask ridiculously prices. There are even "gaming chairs" - laughable.
That's nothing special to PC. You connect peripherals like steering wheels to consoles as well and play games with them, which aren't even available on PC, like Gran Turismo for example.
Just that half of PC games don't support gamepad controllers properly, even when they have console ports, which do. Steams tells you this, when you launch through Big Picture. I can actually play only a fraction of my PC library on my TV.
Local MP on PC works with two or more gamepad controllers, just as everywhere else. For what does one connect two keyboards to a PC?
LOL, didn't know you were just trolling the whole time. I'm using game controllers on PC since 1993, when I started playing on PC. It was casual PC gamers, who only used the keyboard instead.
