A brand new controller for a system that hasn’t launched but? That is fascinating sufficient, certain. However the information comes whenever you flip the field. [credit: Zak S ]
The brand new Xbox console controller is now formally within the wild, which is astonishing sufficient since its accompanying console, the Xbox Collection X, nonetheless would not have a launch date or a value.
However the two leaked controllers we have seen so far are much more intriguing due to one thing they’ve in widespread: an apparently official point out of “Xbox Collection S” as a further Microsoft next-gen console. Ars Technica can verify that that is certainly the identify of an upcoming, unannounced Microsoft product.
S marks the spot—however questions stay
The controller itself was beforehand introduced alongside Xbox Collection X’s reveal throughout the December 2019 broadcast of The Sport Awards. Whereas it bears a powerful resemblance to the prevailing Xbox One controller, its common mildew has been shrunken to higher help a wider vary of hand sizes. Functionally, it is equivalent, aside from a brand new “share” button, whereas its d-pad has been up to date to resemble one of many d-pad choices discovered within the first-party Xbox Elite Controller line. One proprietor of the brand new controller, who goes by Zak S on Twitter, pointed particularly to the up to date d-pad as “one in every of [his] favourite components.”
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