Alex Hutchinson, the creative director behind AC3, had told the gaming community that Ubisoft are not “investing heavily” in a keyboard and mouse setup and urges gamers to use controllers instead.
There is a war brooding within the gaming community as PC gamers and console gamers continue to go at each other in an effort to determine who has the superior platform when it comes to running video games.
PC gamers have the flexibility and adaptability factor in their favour and console gamers have the dedicated hardcore setup working in their favour. Yet nothing gets either side as riled up as the news of a certain game being platform exclusive or in this
case, a game preferring the setup of the console instead of the PC.
The creative director behind the upcoming third instalment in the core Assassin’s Creed series, Alex Hutchinson, said that they were more focused on catering the game to the control schematics of a controller rather than a keyboard and mouse.
To the anger of the PC gaming community he said, “We’re definitely supporting PC” which didn’t sound too bad to begin with, before continuing, “I don’t see us investing hugely in a mouse and keyboard setup. I think if you want to play on PC and you want
to play Assassin’s Creed, you have a controller.”
While a large number of PC gamers still rely on the standard keyboard and mouse, the more hardcore demographic does tend to use specialised controllers for particular games as well as gaming oriented keyboards and ‘mice’.
It seems that for the sake of ensuring the same level of fluidity of controls, when it comes to both consoles and PCs, Ubisoft are willing to risk pushing some PC games into getting serious about how they wish to play their games in order to get the maximum
benefit.
It will be interesting to see how this works out when the game releases later this year. Ubisoft also risked the wrath of feminine rights groups and nerdy teenagers when they revealed that there would not be any female assassins in the latest game.
However, in both cases, their reasons do seem logical.
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