Using Windows 8 Metro with a gamepad

I've been trying to look up on windows 8 with using with a gamepad, which I somehow notice no one is talking about. Most people bring up Metro using the touch interface (but Metro on windows 8 looks like the new xbox 360 interface), which I think metro could allow gamepad support identical to the 360, especially when booting up windows 8 sends you to the metro interace.

In fact your windows 8 account is linked to your xbox 360 account from the start, although I'm not sure if you can use some of the features (like Party Chat). Games for Windows Live allows you to use your live account, yet, even if you are a gold account member, you can't use features exclusive to gold, like party chat, which is really a shame, especially when the 360 still doesn't have skype support.

I'm really into home theater, and while I like gaming on my front projector with a mouse and keyboard, it's still pretty inconvenient and cumbersome, even if you want to use a gamepad, you still need it to use the menus and interface to use it. I'd like to boot my computer, start up steam through metro, and fire up Team Fortress 2 or Battlefield 3, all through a wireless 360 controller, as well as using a 360 headset to smack talk at people just like I can with a normal 360, only on a cinemascope screen at 60FPS maxed out. Maybe party chat with some xbox buddies while I travel through Skyrim on my laptop would be nice too.

Speaking of which, many the folks at Valve like Gabe Newell, do not like Windows 8, where Newell called it a "Catastrophe" complaining about the closed nature of Windows 8. Microsoft has planned to adopt the Apple policy of apps that they take about 20-30% from apps being sold on their store.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/0...embrace-linux/

I bring this up since Steam is a pretty big deal to me, and Valve is also planning on the "Steam Big Picture" interface intended for home theater gaming. I'm hoping that Steam Big picture will work well with Metro because not using it might be counter productive with Big Picture.

http://www.steampowered.com/steamwor...bigpicture.php

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I'm very surprised no one is interested in this. Considering the possibilities that Metro can allow such convenience and capability as a home theater device. Metro and Steam big picture could turn Windows 8 into the next Xbox if they did it right. No need to use the desktop interface to interact with the PC, only now you can get the power and versatility of a gaming computer, something a lot more powerful than the next gen gaming consoles, yet have a large collection out of the gate, only now you can use a game controller or television remote without using a mouse and keyboard to do so.

Thanks for posting and letting me know at least.

That is a shame that Metro doesn't support gamepad at least, and I begin to question why are we forced to use Metro without any input device that can take advantage with it. Metro on the 360 isn't great, but it's much better suited than using an interface intended for a desktop. I think it's really counter-intuitive to limit Metro to a Mouse and Keyboard considering Metro was made with tablets in mind.