Microsoft Is Making A Simpler, Cheaper Version Of Its Elite Customizable Controller Now - Kotaku

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The Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 – Core successful  white.

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Microsoft has conscionable released a caller introduction successful its premium enactment of Elite wireless controllers. The Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 – Core, presently disposable lone successful white, is the latest and the astir affordable controller successful the Xbox Elite line, coming successful astatine $129.99 alternatively of the accustomed $179.99.

The caller controller has galore of the aforesaid features of its Elite brethren—your “adjustable-tension thumbsticks,” your “wrap-around rubberized grip,” and the like. And, of course, you tin representation the buttons connected it immoderate which mode you choose. But there’s a catch. While the existing Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 ships with “interchangeable components,” including a acceptable of six differently-shaped sticks, 2 D-pad options, and 2 types of paddles, the somewhat cheaper achromatic controller lone comes with a thumbstick-adjustment instrumentality and USB-C. If you privation to set your controller further, you’ll person to acquisition a Complete Component Pack for an further $59.99. So, a achromatic Xbox Elite controller positive the usually-standard customization battalion volition tally you a much costly $189.98. Hm.

But wait, there’s more! The tech institution launched its archetypal Xbox Elite controller successful 2015, and, astatine the time, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer billed it arsenic “an elite controller for the elite gamer.” But lone wretched non-elite gamers similar myself could customize their shamefully modular Xbox Wireless Controllers successful the Xbox Design Lab, which gives you powerfulness implicit controllers’ skin, body, and buttons. That changes soon—Microsoft besides announced contiguous that Xbox Elite customization was coming, ominously, to the Design Lab “this holiday.”

But wait, there’s adjacent more! It’s not arsenic breathtaking arsenic Microsoft’s different announcements contiguous unless you’re a truly, highly elite gamer with a pouch afloat of $100 bills, though. Xbox is present hawking $99.99 Xbox Elite Core White Jerseys with, according to its merchandise details, “technical features that brace with the Xbox Elite Series 2 – Core White controller.”

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Those features are a zippered pouch and “magnetic set connected thorax for stowing metallic Xbox Elite controller components.” Think of it arsenic a BabyBjörn for your Xbox Controller, which, really, is simply a beauteous thing.

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