[rasz]

Lets start by getting obvious out of the way - no such thing as competitive gaming on a gamepad. Then you have just encode/decode taking longer than some competitive players whole end-to-end latency.

[Klathmon]

Gaming can be competitive on all kinds of consoles, input devices, and levels.

Some games like Rocket League and many fighting games are primarily played on a controller or some kind of gamepad at the top tier.