Do you have analytics to show console players using mouse and keyboard? I’d be curious to see how widely spread that is.
Yeah, we have analytics for all the different input devices and the platforms they’re used on. We’ve been building really good relationships with both Microsoft and PlayStation for quite a while now, especially since we’ve been so console-focused, on delivering a really good product for Battlefield 6, so that’s really excited them. So they’ve kind of opened the gate and been like, “Here’s the latest SDKs (software development kit), here’s what we’re working on.”
So, yeah, we have analytics that show that there was a group of people, on console specifically, that really wanted keyboard and mouse, and it’s our job as developers to offer that kind of thing out of the box for PlayStation and Microsoft.
We can either choose to be like, “Cool, we accept it,” or we can turn it off. We decided to keep it, and we’ve been working with both Microsoft and PlayStation to close cheating loopholes, and Cronus ZEN, all the new stuff with that, because we are opening ourselves a little bit to that. But, at the end of the day, we need to have a player choice that, regardless of platform, you can pick your favourite input, perform really well on it, and have fun and hang out with friends, because that’s what makes Battlefield a blast.