We’ve lined 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 at the moment 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 depart it, however the fantastic thing about this pad particularly is that it doesn’t actually appear to be a branded controller in any respect. It simply seems to be 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 the event you had no concept what Starfield was, or did and didn’t look after it, you may nonetheless be into this controller.
Anyway! That aesthetic discourse off my chest, I need to speak in regards to the triggers. From leaked product photographs we already knew the triggers had a clear housing, nevertheless it was one factor seeing them simply sitting round. It’s one other seeing them shifting, as a result of so long as we’ve got had vibrating controllers—and it’s been a long time now—I don’t know if I’ve ever seen the mechanics of them truly vibrating earlier than when you’ve obtained the completed product in your hand:
That’s neat! Not shocking, all of us knew roughly how they labored, nevertheless it’s nonetheless cool seeing it in motion like that. Cool and worrying, as a result of seeing how briskly and arduous these little guys should work to maintain rumbling I do not know how controllers final so long as they do. Supplied, uh, they really final as lengthy we wish them to.
The Xbox Sequence X/S controller is $80 whereas the gaming headset is $125.
