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it's no secret that i don't play a ton of games on an actual xbox but what i am

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is an avid xbox controller user although

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confession time my weapon of choice even though the xbox one has been out for

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years now is still the xbox controller but

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i am very hopeful that that changes today i'm getting hands on for the first

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time with the new xbox series controller

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and i guess i have to call it that right like i can't call it an xbox series x

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controller because it's the same controller for the series x and the series s

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immediately the back texture is real

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nice but before we get too far into it let's do a quick incomplete history of

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xbox controllers starting of course with

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this one right here so this is the xbox controller s for

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small presumably it's got a couple of memory slots on the back remember guys

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controllers were all wired in those days so you could totally put you know memory

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cards built into your controller it's got triggers on the left and right so

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just no no shoulder buttons though so just the triggers and then on the front

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it's actually which is kind of crazy not that dissimilar to a current xbox layout

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so just an xbox logo in the middle that became a button one generation later you

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still got your back and start as well as what did we use these ones for actually

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on halo that turned your flashlight on and off and maybe change grenades

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pretty cool one controversial innovation for this generation was this breakaway

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cable so we've actually already been arguing about it off camera here uh

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james is a fan apparently it saved his console from his dad tripping over it

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but david and i are sort of more in the this is a really strong connection and i

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think the console could probably come off the cable you know in fairness david

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we probably don't remember just how heavy the original xbox was yeah so

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maybe maybe that's fine moving on the xbox 360 controller is in my opinion one

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of the most perfect controllers ever it has a crappy d-pad the finish on the

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thumbsticks is quite frankly not very good and you got to get kind of third

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party little rubber things to put over it but the contour

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oh in my you know small adult large child

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sized hands this controller just feels

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like home everything is easily within reach except the buttons you frankly

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don't really need that often like your xbox button yep that makes its first

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appearance here as well as your back and start in the middle and of course in

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addition to the triggers we now get shoulder buttons which has become pretty

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much the standard these days

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bumpers i'm not calling them that they're called bumpers

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that the breakaway cable makes a return but only

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sort of by default xbox 360 controllers

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were wireless so this is just for the people that go out and want to save a

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buck and or have slightly lower latency by using a wired controller i mean most

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people were pretty forgiving about it because it was cool to have a usb type a

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on the controller allowing you to plug it in with automatically installed

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drivers on a Windows pc and use it for games i won't say that the experience

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was entirely seamless on the pc but it's gotten a lot better now at least we have

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that finally they added an accessory jack on the bottom of the controller allowing

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you to plug in a keyboard if you had any use for that or more commonly a headset

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to which you owe the pleasure of all those shrieking children in your ears

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for all those years for the xbox one controller microsoft

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wisely didn't really change much it's got the same smoother contour compared

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to the original xbox s controller and all they've really done is update the

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headset and accessory jacks at the bottom add a charging port so you can charge

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with usb micro b terrible connector but yes i know type c

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didn't exist yet fine whatever and just like the xbox 360 controller they stuck

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with double a batteries which personally i prefer integrated batteries will make

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the controller lighter if you go with a lithium style battery but what they also

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do is make it a lot more work to change them out when the time comes and you

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think about how long a console generation lasts these days you could

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very easily wear out your battery in the time that you own it especially that's a

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good point because your xbox one controller is actually going to work

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with the new series consoles

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now let's have a look at these two side by side while they really haven't

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changed practically anything uh okay i actually went out of my way

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not to look at a ton of coverage of these um because i wanted my impressions

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to be just you know fresh but wow i can see why they went for

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intergenerational compatibility here because

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if i was an xbox user i would be outraged if i had to replace

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my basically identical controller with another basically

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identical controller i mean to be clear i'm not criticizing microsoft for

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sticking with what works if it ain't broke don't fix it but uh wow yeah they

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have not changed much back to the texture though that is

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markedly better this really grabs on to your hand but not in like an

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uncomfortable way it's not like sandpaper but it feels both rougher and

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yet somehow more premium even though the plastics

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feel pretty similar like they're both reasonably stiff you know this might be

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a little more rigid actually that feels pretty good the thumb sticks

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look like they have used did they use the same mold even i don't think they

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changed at all one welcome addition is a similar d-pad

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style to the xbox elite controller well one of the optional versions of the

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d-pad included with the xbox elite controller it makes diagonal presses

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very easy while still having a really good feel for you know left right down

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up games like if you play old emulated games like i do a lot they've added a

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share button right in the middle of the controller so you can you know share

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things with people who give a sh in all seriousness though you press it to take

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a screenshot long press it to record a short gameplay video or double press it

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to check out the gallery and through the xbox app you can actually synchronize

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all that stuff with your phone where it's much easier to share on social media or whatever now let's talk

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tactility because that really is what it comes down to for a controller there's

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the feel in the hand and then there's the feel of the buttons and i want to go

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straight back to the d-pad actually because that

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there we go that is something special

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one of the big problems with the 360 controller for me is that the d-pad is

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it feels like a joystick with a big flat top on it quite honestly there's no

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there's no feel to it you're just kind of mushing it around now the xbox one

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controller did improve this a lot you can even hear it

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it's not so mushy the new series controller

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whole new level i would even say it goes as far as to

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make it a little stiff compared to a good controller like the switch pro one

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or the ps4 d-pad is pretty good

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the ps4 d-pad is four buttons david your fanboy is showing

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that's what a d pad no those are good for selecting items

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playing super mario on that thing it's a little crunchy yeah yeah playing like

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you know an elder scrolls game or something like that i'm navigating like oh i know i pressed that

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but are they solving a problem that they never really had like it's not like

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ah it is better i i'm i'm saying yeah this this is this

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is clearly better but if i was playing retro games

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that's rough what about a fighting game where you're doing combos like you're rolling it like down forward punch

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doesn't feel great you hear that kind of crunchy sound like

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the tactility of the diagonal is only

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provided by the tactility of the down and the

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directions like you hear that it doesn't sound like click click or even click

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click it's just

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like it's not very satisfying for that the z-axis

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on the joysticks is really stiff these are both new they feel

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very similar so it might just be the newness

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i don't think they've really changed the feel of the abx y buttons in

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over a decade now these feel very similar type c charging

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another big improvement i am a huge whatever the opposite of a fan is i'm a

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hater okay when it comes to micro b i think it's a terrible crappy fragile

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port this is a great improvement and once again

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double a batteries are back one thing to watch out for guys is that even though

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they look nearly identical in size the

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battery compartment is ever so slightly smaller so

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many third-party like battery pack like charge pack accessories and stuff like

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that will fit but microsoft is advising you that if it doesn't seem to quite fit

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don't sit just you'll have to get a new one unfortunately i wonder if even like

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these covers are interchangeable now i want to try it

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nope yeah that's not going to work like visually i can't even tell the

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difference between these things but they are oh yeah there you go no there's

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a little lip there yeah that's a difference the good news about the if it

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ain't broke don't fix it approach is that the conclusion for this is pretty

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simple if you like the xbox one controller you're gonna like the xbox

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series controller because it's basically the same thing just with a little bit of

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additional functionality this is gonna save a ton of e-waste because your

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player one controller the one that comes with the console anyway you're gonna

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have that share button like who's gonna be hitting the share button and managing

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the freaking gallery when you've got friends over so all your secondary tertiary quaternary

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controllers can just be you know old xbox one controllers and there's no

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functionality lost i think sony is making a huge mistake with the forced

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non-intergenerational compatibility with the ps4 and ps5 controllers i get it you

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got some extra you know special haptic whatever

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nonsense but like i think game developers are pretty smart i think they

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could figure out how to have like a you know use the rumble or something to

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simulate it or you know something in an emergency

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they have some compatibility right no so the you can use this on

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backwards compatible games so on ps4 games that's that's not

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intergenerational compatibility that's like the most arbitrary nonsense that's

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taking something that works and intentionally making it not work like

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sony shirt for your first party titles you can just say yeah requires x

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controller it's not like there's no precedent for that like nintendo does it

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all the time you can't play this fitness game unless you buy a 100 balance board

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yeah exactly sony themselves has done it sorry this is turning into a rant about

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why sony's controller strategy this generation is anti-consumer

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anti-environment and basically just dumb

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but that's just sony for you you know remember memory stick because i remember

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remember to subscribe because i remembered that too see you later