Hands-on with Xbox One's new controller
We go hands on with Xbox One's new controller. (And we liked it!)
Xbox One features two new buttons: View and Menu
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Andrew Yoon posted a new article, Hands-on with Xbox One's new controller.
We go hands on with Xbox One's new controller. (And we liked it!)-
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Yeah, this is one of the few positives for the new system. Force feedback always helped me in racing games when it was implemented well. You can use it to gauge how hard you're taking a turn. So more feedback on the triggers can help a lot.
And I've always wondered why everybody isn't just copying the Sega Saturn d-pad. That's almost universally accepted as the best d-pad.
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that would suck. i really like removable AAs with option of a battery pack for those that prefer them. the AAs you can at least take out and replace inexpensively when a battery pack dies or can't hold a charge after 2 or 3 years. plus swapping out batteries is way better than hooking up a USB cable and sitting 4' away from your tv to charge and play. plus eneloops!
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I had to read all the way to the 7th paragraph to tell what impulse triggers are... and then, only because it can be implicitly deduced there. Mr. Yoon, why would you assume everyone knows what an impulse trigger is when it's new tech and being introduced here? Explain wtf it is in the first paragraph if you're gonna talk about it so much.
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Oh, I see, so I'm supposed to understand Microsoft's proprietary naming scheme? Saying "rumble motor" to me is like saying "impulse trigger". It's not a scientific word, it's a word Microsoft made up.
Anyway, keep arguing if you want, I'm pointing out a problem I had with the article... AndrewYoon can choose to ignore me or listen, I'm not forcing anyone to do anything.-
"Rumble motor" isn't something they made up, it's the most general term for the tech that makes gamepads vibrate. Vibration motor is also common. It's the same principle that makes your cell phone shake when on vibrate.
I suppose if you've never opened a controller with rumble functionality since the first Dual Shock (maybe even before that if you could the N64's rumble pak), and have also never seen one of those translucent shelled gamepads in action, you probably wouldn't know that the rumble is caused by tiny motors that spin a small weight around. Hence rumble motor.
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Not sure if a tighter pickup is a good thing after seeing 360 gamepads that stick and drift in various directions. I had to return a few brand new ones to find one where both sticks were actually neutral when untouched. Searching around it was far from an isolated case, either.
Hopefully that problem has been solved with the new controllers.
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I had completely forgot how terrible the original controller was.
http://i.imgur.com/6XD06Wt.jpg
It felt so awkward being in your hands. And those poor jewel buttons... -
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And the button label war continues. This is why I remember the buttons for what they do, and not for their labels.
Right side face buttons, indexed by position from center:
Bottom: Yes
Right: No
Top}r: Options
Left: Press This To Not Die
NOTE: in Japan, Right is Yes, and Bottom is No, despite the colors being backwards.
I'll always call Select "Select" and Start "Start", because that's what it's been since the NES.