Battlefield 2042: 10,000 fans sign petition, urge mouse and keyboard on PlayStation & Xbox

Who Battlefield 2042 plays on the console can only access a controller. Mouse & Keyboard are only available to PC players. More than 10,000 fans want to change this with a petition.

What's? Players who want to play Battlefield 2042 with mouse & keyboard, currently have a choice: they have to play the game on the PC. Because on PlayStation and Xbox Battlefield supports only the compatible controllers. Support for mouse & keyboard do not have the console versions. On the other hand, PC players can also use a controller as needed.

Fans hope to change these circumstances with a new online petition (via battlefield2042kbm). It has already collected more than 10,000 votes and has been growing steadily for days.

What are the background of the petition? In this petition, the developers of Battlefield 2042, DICE and EA, asked to activate the control over mouse & keyboard for consoles. This desire is explained above all with the poor availability of new PC hardware:

A large proportion of the gaming community can not upgrade your PCs to meet the system requirements of Battlefield 2042. This is due to the limited availability of PC parts, and that the few parts available are purchased from scalpers and resold for twice the price. Which was a 300 – 600 € expensive graphics card costs now 1000 – 2000 € (ridiculous!).

Shadow, the personality responsible for the petition (via battlefield2042kbm)

Competition should serve as a model

How do it make other shooters? Compared to the competition, Battlefield 2042 lags behind in these concerns.

Whether your Call of Duty: Vanguard or Halo Infinite on the PC plays or on a console: In these shooters you have the choice: you prefer to play with the controller, or a Mouse & Keyboard connected via USB?

This option exists in Battlefield 2042: Console players can only play with controllers. The petition hopes to change these circumstances

What the developers say? Before the launch of Battlefield 2042, DICE has already talked about the lack of mouse & keyboard on consoles. This option is not in the game, which could change in the future — even if there are no concrete plans for this.

Whether this petition will change something to the missing plans will show. In the roadmap, which promises over 200 improvements until the beginning of December 2021, however, this point does not appear.