Blurring the Lines
One of the games Andrew talked me into buying during the Steam holiday sale was Burnout Paradise, a game that I would have never bought on my own, but for $2, it seemed interesting enough. According to Andrew, the game plays much better with a 360 controller than with a keyboard. Microsoft felt the need to go cheap and make wireless controllers only transfer power over the Play and Charge kit, not data, meaning that all my existing controllers didn’t work with my computer. So, I decided rather than get a wired controller, to just get the 360 controller PC pack which comes with a wireless controller and a receiver that would enable all my controllers to now work instead of only one.
On the flip side, Microsoft also released a small thumb keyboard for 360 controllers about a year ago, and while I’d never buy one at retail, since I was at our company store anyway and typing out messages without one is quite painful, I figured that getting one was worth the investment. So, I now have a keyboard for my console, and a controller for my PC. If my computer was hooked up to my HDTV, then I might really get confused as to which one I was on at any given time.