It’s highly unlikely that the two companies will heed his word…

Jeff Kaplan said on the Battle.net forums that Blizzard is objecting the usage of keyboard and mouse on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in the team-based FPS which has over 25 million players, potentially because players can aim much easier with these devices in comparison to the gameplay with only a controller.

„We have contacted both first-party console manufacturers and expressed our concern about the use of mouse and keyboard and input conversion devices. We have lobbied and will continue to lobby for first-party console manufacturers to either disallow mouse and keyboard and input conversion devices or openly and easily support mouse and keyboard for all players. I encourage you to reach out to the hardware manufacturers and express your concerns (but please do so in a productive and respectful way),” Kaplan said.

However, he forgot something. The PlayStation 4 supports the keyboard and mouse natively in things such as the Internet browser, and developers can choose to support these devices in their games. Microsoft is shifting towards cross-buy and cross-play with the Xbox Play Anywhere program, so it seems unlikely on their end to stop supporting them.

Perhaps Overwatch players shouldn’t be divided by their method of inputs – what about cross-play between the PS4, X1, and PC? Blizzard seems keen to be able to detect and ban input converters…