PS4 Gets Officially Licensed Keyboard And Mouse

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A new keyboard and mouse combination is on the way to the PS4, giving gamers a perhaps unfair advantage over those playing the same game with a DualShock 4. That’s assuming the Tactical Assault Commander 4 is any good, of course.​

Every so often we come across something that we look at and wonder just why it exists. We thought that exact thing when we saw the Tactical Assault Commander 4 from Hori, but maybe we’re just missing the point.​

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Coming four years after the Tactical Assault Commander 3, this fourth incarnation is a PS4 keyboard and mouse combination that hopes to bring some of the precision control that PC gamers have to the PS4. By mapping the PS4’s DualShock 4 controller’s left analog stick to the keyboard’s WASD keys and then the right analog stick to the mouse, the Tactical Assault Commander 4 theoretically brings the power of a pointing device to the home console space, although the thought of mapping analog controls to digital keyboard button presses has us slightly concerned.​

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The rest of the keys are made up of the rest of the DualShock 4’s buttons and triggers as well as some additional functions including a ‘snipe mode’ which apparently alters the mouse’s sensitivity to make head shots easier to get.​

With no current release date or price for the United States, both the UK and Japan arms of Amazon have the Tactical Assault Commander 4 up for pre-order with prices around $130 mark. Both sites have an expected launch date of October for the keyboard and mouse combo, just in time for some of the bigger first-person shooters to arrive. That’s probably not a coincidence!​

We’ve always been of the opinion that if you want to play with a keyboard and mouse then you buy a PC, but if you really must play your PS4 games using a pointing device then the Tactical Assault Commander 4 may be for you.​

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Source: Redmond Pie​