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Is console mouse and keyboard play more trouble than it’s worth?

Microsoft announced in September that mouse and keyboard support was coming to Xbox, and XO18 brought more details on a feature that went live as part of a November system update. While you can use your own peripherals, Razer has signed up as the initiative’s official partner, and will support the new dynamic lighting feature. Only a few games offer support at launch: one is Fortnite, which swerves the obvious concern about balance by putting mouseand-keyboard players in a separate matchmaking queue. Easy enough for the biggest game on the planet, but whether other developers will risk splitting already small online userbases remains to be seen.