It looks like the popularity of the Lenovo Legion Go, Asus ROG Ally, and their stablemates has finally forces Microsoft to realise that gaming handhelds are here to stay. In the latest Windows Insider Preview, Microsoft has added a new on-screen game keyboard that uses an optimised layout and a mixture of touch and controller input to increase typing speed.
With it, you can use your Xbox controller to move around the screen and type.
Does that mean you couldn’t before? Seriously people were playing around on a handheld that couldn’t even type?
Button accelerators are also available; these include the X button for backspace and the Y button for the spacebar.
WTF!? Isn’t that standard also?
For better movement patterns, the keyboard keys are aligned vertically."
Does this even make a difference?
In any case, the title is bullshit, it should be that will make windows handhelds close to typing on consoles which sucks. Typing on the Deck is a completely different experience, one that can’t be replicated in any of these handhelds because they lack the hardware to do so.
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Does that mean you couldn’t before? Seriously people were playing around on a handheld that couldn’t even type?
WTF!? Isn’t that standard also?
Does this even make a difference?
In any case, the title is bullshit, it should be that will make windows handhelds close to typing on consoles which sucks. Typing on the Deck is a completely different experience, one that can’t be replicated in any of these handhelds because they lack the hardware to do so.