User blog comment:Comrade Hamburger/My Opinion on how Black Ops 3 is NOT Pay to Win./@comment-4872910-20160323002204/@comment-24756040-20160324015939

From what I heard while watching Raging Amish take two stabs at the MP-40, Treyarch's logic was that the console MP-40 was how the MP-40 was supposed to work, and that the PC version is a downscale of the MP-40 due to a possibility of it being overpowered with the precision of a mouse au lieu of a controller, or the other way around if you wish. On PC it was completely balanced out, maybe a little underpowered due to its heavy recoil.

The power at a range was mostly irrelevant as the MP-40 has monstrous recoil values, making it unreliable even when firing at 535 RPM. An enemy using almost any other weapon had an accuracy advantage over the MP-40 at range, making it illogical to use the MP-40 at a distance, where you had to single fire to retain accuracy.