Tbh it didn’t stop Q3 and Unreal being popular on the Dreamcast even though there was a mix of pad players and m/kb… in fact some purposely chose the pad as they were just more comfortable with it. I guess they could filter further with pad only servers.
Anything to show consolers how much better m/kb is is fine by me, and if they do it via frustration then so be it 
Fair enough. I guess time will tell and I suppose CS is a big enough name. If anyone can pull it off it’ll be that game.
Q3 was awesome on the DC, but I’m unsure of how many people bought the mouse and keyboard, and actually played online. A friend of mine bought them, and although the mouse quality was a bit low compared to even cheap PC mice at the time, they did the job nicely. Another DC owning friend challenged their effectiveness, so we had some 4-player DM games with me on m+kb, and the other three on DC controllers. They managed to kill each other OK, but didn’t get a single kill out of me, even when the three of them tried to take me together 
heh.
Now, I did have some Q3 experience already by that point - and had been playing FPS in general for years on PC - but it was an absolute slaughter-fest from beginning to end, and they kept coming back for more! They should have known really - we played Goldeneye regularly too, and they also got it handed to them there, where we were all on controllers. That was mostly because they’d only played console FPS games at that point - so due to the inherent clumsiness of trying to aim accurately without polished aim assist on a controller, they were mostly standing still. Just a short time playing Quakeworld would have taught them that standing still for just a second is a really bad move in most FPS games Quakeworld was my learning ground, because it was fast-paced and punishing as hell against good players.
Oh, and the DC version of Q3 really didn’t have much in the way of compensation - that is, I’m fairly sure it didn’t try to level the playing field between mouse and keyboard players, and those on standard controllers. These days, that would definitely be suicide - in the DC days, limited numbers of players would actually go online. With the PS3, if you say it has multiplayer, you’ll have millions at least trying it online. That equates to a need to spend more time on balancing - but I’m unsure how this will affect a PS3 game. PS3 has a much, much higher player base than the DC had - and more people will buy FPS on console these days too. The unknown for me in that equation, is how many PS3 owners have the mouse and keyboard - and how many of those people will use it to play FPS games, rather than just browsing etc. I get the feeling this could be a small minority, meaning the majority of people playing the FPS game will be on controller. So, you’d still have the balance vs. PC issues, but the balance vs. other PS3 players might not be so critical.
Sorry, that was very off-topic