It all comes down to how each input mechanism affects your ability to turn. On a console, the angle in which a player can turn is a function of both time and displacement of the thumb stick. No matter how far players want to turn, they have to pay a time cost. Even at the highest controller sensitivity, there is a time cost to be paid. On a PC the angle of turn is a direct mapping of how far you move the mouse. The time cost is variable and the better players get that time cost to approach zero.
Console Controller vs. Mouse and Keyboard Aiming In Game Design
– January 25, 2011Posted in: Video Games
Great piece by John Comes from Uber Entertainment breaking down why a mouse and keyboard feels so much better than a console controller for playing first-person shooters:
