Isn't this just due to the way you chose to set things up? You could just as easily plug your PC into that same TV so you can sit on your couch and use a controller with it. You could also (I assume? I don't have a current gen console...) plug your console into the monitor and KVM.

It all depends what one wants.

I for one hate using controller, and consoles don't support M+K (ok, xbox does, but not all games do).

Playing 3d shooter on controller is just like playing it using arrow keys, possible and I was doing that when I played DOOM (the original). Tried it and hated every minute of it because of inprecise shooting.

And strategy games? Moving pointer with controller?

RTS? Is there any on consoles?

And the last but not least, what to do when one doesn't have a TV? Those are not popular nowadays :)

Okay, valid, here's your "play-on-pc" pass. :)

> Playing 3d shooter on controller is just like playing it using arrow keys, possible and I was doing that when I played DOOM (the original). Tried it and hated every minute of it because of inprecise shooting.

That's true, but there'a a similar argument to be made about movement -- controllers use an analog stick for movement (or steering) and at least for me (PlayStation gang) it's always a weird feeling only being able to control my character in a binary way (moving/not moving) by typing letters. It's not as game breaking as not being able to aim properly, but it always feels like I'm doing it the wrong way.

Have you tried gyro aim before? It's on par with mouse.

That's the possibility and the goal, but it seems that actually fulfilling it is not a very high priority these days:

- I have to unplug and replug my headset (an official Xbox-compatible Astro headset) from my xbox about 33% of the time to get it to recognize my microphone, and this is a common complaint among owners.

- When I try to play Minecraft with a friend, about 50-60% of the time we can't connect, and one or both of us needs to completely restart our console.

- A recent heavily-promoted game, "The Ascent", was actually throwing video memory errors on Xbox consoles for a lot of people:

https://old.reddit.com/r/XboxSeriesXlS/comments/p4losy/the_a...

https://external-preview.redd.it/8wPHr4M1TrBuG8qon6YO2WkrM_V...

- One of Xbox's flagship games, Sea of Thieves, due to creative choices in the world lore, has tied respawn time to your console horsepower. So if you have an Xbox One, you now have to compete against Xbox Series S/X players, or people who have bought an external drive, who respawn much, much faster than you. And the game pushes you strongly towards PVP most of the time. And even if you avoid that, it's still not uncommon to die due to PVE circumstances and "lose" because of the unacceptably long respawn times. So rather than just enjoying the game, you're often cursing your inferior console, or spending time thinking about upgrading its storage just to be competitive.

Newer console games often make you feel pressure to buy the newest console iteration when the older iteration is nearing its end, but Sea of Thieves was released years ago on the Xbox One. Now it's a litany of performance complaints whose answers are just "get a Series X." These days consoles are earlier and earlier becoming advertisements for their newer generations.

Just out of curiousity, have you tried things like game streaming? I've heard decent things for streaming games via Steam at least.