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 immediately 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 specifically is that it doesn’t actually appear like a branded controller in any respect. It simply appears to be like like an Xbox controller with a very cool late-70s/early-80s sci-fi theme, prefer it was one thing out of The Final Starfighter, and so even for those who had no thought what Starfield was, or did and didn’t take care of it, you could possibly nonetheless be into this controller.
Anyway! That aesthetic discourse off my chest, I need 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 transferring, as a result of so long as we now have had vibrating controllers—and it’s been many years 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 stunning, 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 laborious 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.
