We’ve coated the particular Starfield-branded Xbox controllers earlier than. They had been one of many worst-kept secrets and techniques of 2023, alongside the Starfield-branded Xbox headset that’s already becoming a member of them on retailer cabinets. What I didn’t know till as we speak was how rattling cool the controller’s triggers are.
I imply, I just like the controller design itself. I’m not precisely hyped for Starfield, I can take it or go away it, however the fantastic thing about this pad specifically is that it doesn’t actually seem like a branded controller in any respect. It simply seems like an Xbox controller with a extremely cool late-70s/early-80s sci-fi theme, prefer it was one thing out of The Final Starfighter, and so even in case you had no thought what Starfield was, or did and didn’t take care of it, you can nonetheless be into this controller.
Anyway! That aesthetic discourse off my chest, I wish to speak concerning the triggers. From leaked product photographs we already knew the triggers had a clear housing, however it was one factor seeing them simply sitting round. It’s one other seeing them shifting, as a result of so long as we have now had vibrating controllers—and it’s been many years now—I don’t know if I’ve ever seen the mechanics of them really vibrating earlier than when you’ve received the completed product in your hand:
That’s neat! Not shocking, all of us knew roughly how they labored, however it’s nonetheless cool seeing it in motion like that. Cool and worrying, as a result of seeing how briskly and onerous these little guys need to work to maintain rumbling I don’t know how controllers final so long as they do. Supplied, uh, they really final as lengthy we wish them to.
The Xbox Collection X/S controller is $80 whereas the gaming headset is $125.
