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left and right so just no no shoulder buttons though so just the triggers and then on the front it's actually which is kind of crazy not that dissimilar to a current xbox layout so just an xbox logo in the middle that became a button one generation later you still got your back and start as well as what did we use these ones for actually on halo that turned your flashlight on and off and maybe change grenades pretty cool one controversial innovation for this generation was this breakaway cable so we've actually already been arguing about it off camera here uh james is a fan apparently it saved his console from his dad tripping over it but david and i are sort of more in the this is a really strong connection and i think the console could probably come off the cable you know in fairness david we probably don't remember just how heavy the original xbox was yeah so maybe maybe that's fine moving on the xbox 360 controller is in my opinion one of the most perfect controllers ever it has a crappy d-pad the finish on the thumbsticks is quite frankly not very good and you got to get kind of third party little rubber things to put over it but the contour oh in my you know small adult large child sized hands this controller just feels like home everything is easily within reach except the buttons you frankly don't really need that often like your xbox button yep that makes its first appearance here as well as your back and start in the middle and of course in addition to the triggers we now get shoulder buttons which has become pretty much the standard these days bumpers i'm not calling them that they're called bumpers that the breakaway cable makes a return but only sort of by default xbox 360 controllers were wireless so this is just for the people that go out and want to save a buck and or have slightly lower latency by using a wired controller i mean most people were pretty forgiving about it because it was cool to have a usb type a on the controller allowing you to plug it in with automatically installed drivers on a Windows pc and use it for games i won't say that the experience was entirely seamless on the pc but it's gotten a lot better now at least we have that finally they added an accessory jack on the bottom of the controller allowing you to plug in a keyboard if you had any use for that or more commonly a headset to which you owe the pleasure of all those shrieking children in your ears for all those years for the xbox one controller microsoft wisely didn't really change much it's got the same smoother contour compared to the original xbox s controller and all they've really done is update the headset and accessory jacks at the bottom add a charging port so you can charge with usb micro b terrible connector but yes i know type c didn't exist yet fine whatever and just like the xbox 360 controller they stuck with double a batteries which personally i prefer integrated batteries will make the controller lighter if you go with a lithium style battery but what they also do is make it a lot more work to change them out when the time comes and you think about how long a console generation lasts these days you could very easily wear out your battery in the time that you own it especially that's a good point because your xbox one controller is actually going to work with the new series consoles now let's have a look at these two side by side while they really haven't changed practically anything uh okay i actually went out of my way not to look at a ton of coverage of these um because i wanted my impressions to be just you know fresh but wow i can see why they went for intergenerational compatibility here because if i was an xbox user i would be outraged if i had to replace my basically identical controller with another basically identical controller i mean to be clear i'm not criticizing microsoft for sticking with what works if it ain't broke don't fix it but uh wow yeah they have not changed much back to the texture though that is markedly better this really grabs on to your hand but not in like an uncomfortable way it's not like sandpaper but it feels both rougher and yet somehow more premium even though the plastics feel pretty similar like they're both reasonably stiff you know this might be a little more rigid actually that feels pretty good the thumb sticks look like they have used did they use the same mold even i don't think they changed at all one welcome addition is a similar d-pad style to the xbox elite controller well one of the optional versions of the d-pad included with the xbox elite controller it makes diagonal presses very easy while still having a really good feel for you know left right down up games like if you play old emulated games like i do a lot they've added a share button right in the middle of the controller so you can you know share things with people who give a sh in all seriousness though you press it to take a screenshot long press it to record a short gameplay video or double press it to check out the gallery and through the xbox app you can actually synchronize all that stuff with your phone where it's much easier to share on social media or whatever now let's talk tactility because that really is what it comes down to for a controller there's the feel in the hand and then there's the feel of the buttons and i want to go straight back to the d-pad actually because that there we go that is something special one of the big problems with the 360 controller for me is that the d-pad is it feels like a joystick with a big flat top on it quite honestly there's no there's no feel to it you're just kind of mushing it around now the xbox one controller did improve this a lot you can even hear it it's not so mushy the new series controller whole new level i would even say it goes as far as to make it a little stiff compared to a good controller like the switch pro one or the ps4 d-pad is pretty good the ps4 d-pad is four buttons david your fanboy is showing that's what a d pad no those are good for selecting items playing super mario on that thing it's a little crunchy yeah yeah playing like you know an elder scrolls game or something like that i'm navigating like oh i know i pressed that but are they solving a problem that they never really had like it's not like ah it is better i i'm i'm saying yeah this this is this is clearly better but if i was playing retro games that's rough what about a fighting game where you're doing combos like you're rolling it like down forward punch doesn't feel great you hear that kind of crunchy sound like the tactility of the diagonal is only provided by the tactility of the down and the directions like you hear that it doesn't sound like click click or even click click it's just like it's not very satisfying for that the z-axis on the joysticks is really stiff these are both new they feel very similar so it might just be the newness i don't think they've really changed the feel of the abx y buttons in over a decade now these feel very similar type c charging another big improvement i am a huge whatever the opposite of a fan is i'm a hater okay when it comes to micro b i think it's a terrible crappy fragile port this is a great improvement and once again double a batteries are back one thing to watch out for guys is that even though they look nearly identical in size the battery compartment is ever so slightly smaller so many third-party like battery pack like charge pack accessories and stuff like that will fit but microsoft is advising you that if it doesn't seem to quite fit don't sit just you'll have to get a new one unfortunately i wonder if even like these covers are interchangeable now i want to try it nope yeah that's not going to work like visually i can't even tell the difference between these things but they are oh yeah there you go no there's a little lip there yeah that's a difference the good news about the if it ain't broke don't fix it approach is that the conclusion for this is pretty simple if you like the xbox one controller you're gonna like the xbox series controller because it's basically the same thing just with a little bit of additional functionality this is gonna save a ton of e-waste because your player one controller the one that comes with the console anyway you're gonna have that share button like who's gonna be hitting the share button and managing the freaking gallery when you've got friends over so all your secondary tertiary quaternary controllers can just be you know old xbox one controllers and there's no functionality lost i think sony is making a huge mistake with the forced non-intergenerational compatibility with the ps4 and ps5 controllers i get it you got some extra you know special haptic whatever nonsense but like i think game developers are pretty smart i think they could figure out how to have like a you know use the rumble or something to simulate it or you know something in an emergency they have some compatibility right no so the you can use this on backwards compatible games so on ps4 games that's that's not intergenerational compatibility that's like the most arbitrary nonsense that's taking something that works and intentionally making it not work like sony shirt for your first party titles you can just say yeah requires x controller it's not like there's no precedent for that like nintendo does it all the time you can't play this fitness game unless you buy a 100 balance board yeah exactly sony themselves has done it sorry this is turning into a rant about why sony's controller strategy this generation is anti-consumer anti-environment and basically just dumb but that's just sony for you you know remember memory stick because i remember remember to subscribe because i remembered that too see you later"}