Call me old school, but I like the keyboard-and-mouse experience.

It's not so much about the keyboard. It's the mouse. If you're use to using a keyboard, you have what, on average 101 keys? 101 different controls. If you're used to it, I don't see how it could be less productive than a controller.

The mouse though, vs the thumb stick or d-pad, there is no real competition. The mouse is more accurate, more responsive, easier to use, and it's more versatile. I don't know how anyone can rightfully say that a thumb stick is better than a mouse.

Don't get me wrong, I don't have a grudge against the controller, I just happen to find the mouse a lot better for my performance than the thumb stick.

Key board and mouse you often get more accuracy in first person shooters, but other than that it's just a matter of getting use to.

Using a controller with analog sticks, you would have to:

-Move the stick a certain distance away from its center position in the direction of the target

-Wait for your character to rotate in that direction

-Move the stick in the opposite direction back to its center position(so to stop the rotation)

-Fire

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On the other hand, using a mouse , all you have to do is:

-Move the mouse a certain distance to the direction of the target

-Fire

Clearly, using a mouse to aim is must less complicated for the following reason:

-You don’t have to “wait for the character to rotate while not doing anything in particular”

-You don’t have to do anything special to stop the rotation after it reaches your target — you simply stop moving the mouse

I never got around to make my keyboard/ mouse cockpit for serious gaming, but as long as its an optical mouse and the keys don't stick, it's great for tactical games and shooters like CS!

I use keyboard and mouse with my shooter games. When they show the world champions at all these games, they're always using keyboard and mouse because it give them more control. If the best of the best use it, it's the best.

Keyboards and mice you say? Please vote here and favor/ oppose me your views and games

One big advantage of console controllers is that you don't need to be sitting at a desk. That makes it easier to play with friends.

Using the keyboard for anything other than data entry is looking old to me. Take first person perspective shoot'em-ups for instance, there is no velocity control on movement when using the cursor keys nor is there an intuitive strafing option. With the advent of 6 degree motion sensors, positional triangulation and analogue buttons, you have sensitive avatar rotation, intuitive side movement and finely controllable linear motion respectively.

The Wiimote is the best game control ever invented. It has been very instrumental in the commercial success of the Wii.

The Wiimote features motion sensing capability, which allows the user to interact with and manipulate items on screen via movement and pointing through the use of accelerometer and optical sensor technology.

One of the coolest parts about the Wiimote is that it can snap into many accessories to make the gaming experience even better. For instance, it snaps into a guitar (Guitar Hero III), a steering wheel (MarioKart), a golf club (Tiger Woods Golf), and a machine gun (Medal of Honor).

Wii Controls, Wii Controls, and, of course, Wii Controls. That is all there is too it. No stupid keyboard reacts to how you move your entire arm or how you drive with a steering wheel. And don't say that you can connect those steering wheels to your computers because that also falls under the "other controllers" category since it is not a mouse and keyboard. SO HA! AND ANOTHER HA!

To be a real gmaer a joystick is the way to go. It is how it al lstatred on the Arcade machines though I don't like the touchy part it is better thne a mouse.

Throwing kicks and punches or battling it out in a graphical world just doesn't flow on the keyboard. Eventually I'm hoping they'll have controls you can wear like a glove. Closest thing that comes to that right now is a gamepad.

I think Sony's EyeToy concept was the most interesting in terms of interaction. In the future, all the cleverness will be pushed back into the console's processors and the human brain - no need for any other sophistication. For example, imagine a cheapo camera like the EyeToy connected to a computer smart enough to understand what it sees - able to interpret the movements and facial expressions of a group of people. There would be no need for a Wiimote or the like. To make it truly immersive, wrap some cheap screens around your head - again, the console does the work and makes any old telly fluid and clever.

Dual shock is wonderful, and I hope it'll get better.

Guitar Hero...The debate ends here