This "console war" thing is so tiring

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Thursday, August 01, 2013, 22:36 (4143 days ago) @ uberfoop

BTW, I'd say consoles have more precision as far as movements, given that on a PC you usually use keys and an analog stick is more precise and varied, where PC pulls ahead is in the mouse allowing for even more precise and varied and nuanced aiming than an analog stick
also BTW Cody (and a few other people) had to convince me of this a few years ago so IDK why he had to say it again

This doesn't wind up being as true as you might initially think.

No, he is correct, in that using an analog stick to move AND using a mouse to aim would give you the most precision, since you could do what you suggested even with an analog stick, and the analog stick offers a higher precision of motion range and speed.

However, if you have one hand on a controller and the other on the mouse, that makes it hard to use all the other buttons you need, such as switch weapons, action, crouch, jump etc, which is why the wasd setups works just fine.

The ultimate FPS control scheme would be having a mouse to aim, and a special keyboard with an analog stick affixed to it somehow, such that your thumb operated the stick, while your other fingers were free to hit other keys.