he told me to be gentle with it but it's not quite another thing
last month xbox canada tweeted out that they had created what they called
the canadian tuxedo
xbox controller a denim jean
xbox controller so naturally as a canadian
and technology enthusiast i immediately
reached out to our xbox contact and was like is this thing real to which happily they
replied yes and then i said can i have it
and they were like actually yeah so the
video is not about this this is out of here it's about this
inside this box is not a carbon black controller
oh my god it's actually real
that is hilarious
this raises so many more questions than it answers
like how and especially
why and is it actually any good to game
on it you know that's actually exactly as
comfortable as you might imagine it is i mean brandon cloth covered controller
could you get into that yeah yeah
yeah it's like it's
soft but functional you know it's denim
now i said we had more questions than answers but
i also have some more answers to add to our questions
here is uh the story at xbox canada
we've always been fond of making custom controllers but in 2021 we wanted to take it to
another level and explore what a canadian custom controller could be
so apparently they think we all wear denim top and bottom
that's interesting emerging from a haze of bing crosby letter kenny
britney spears and justin timberlake circa 2001
the canadian tuxedo xbox controller
was born denim top and denim bottom the
controller is adorned with all little details you'd expect in a
canadian tuxedo i have never heard an all denim outfit
called a canadian tuxedo before is that even a thing little pockets to
hold your toonies and belt loops to put your
fingers through when you see a good wall to lean on okay all right you know
what xbox canada you definitely got my attention and i'm
not gonna lie i absolutely love it but you did get a
couple of the details wrong here number one these pockets
were clearly designed by someone who has never seen a toonie
in their life no toonie would fit in there
quarter maybe toonie
absolutely not toony is a pretty big coin i know you americans you got
you got small coins but we got we got
big coins if you know what i mean brandon
you got a tuning on you oh man you rock dude okay here we go
this is your 2d pocket
also justin timberlake and britney
spears are not canadians
so i don't know letter kenny yes uh bing
crosby i actually don't know i have no idea it's before my time
but justin timberlake and britney spears are as american
as apple pie and bald eagles which actually by the way we have bald eagles
here the loops though excellent of course what it comes down to for any
game controller is not how you know culturally accurate
it is necessarily but how functional it is and i want to
give this thing a try does this does this battery cover even come up i
got to give them credit considering that the entire purpose of
this controller before we asked to play with it was
to like send out a tweet as far as i can tell they actually did a bang-up job of
the quality of the construction like these guys are these are these are
sewn on everything is sewn on it's all like tucked in nicely
uh does it have batteries in it already oh
that button uh so here's the thing
when you build a high quality product with very tight manufacturing tolerances
like say this xbox controller for example you
don't have a lot of gaps around things like buttons so when you
go ahead and you tuck um denim into the cap
the first time i press this button it immediately got stuck in there
so um oh i did say i'd be gentle with it
but i think i might need my knife
well no no i'm not going to like intentionally ruin it or anything
it's like just
yeah sorry sorry xbox i'm just i just want to pry the button back
out can i maybe
shoot now what what did we do i wanted to play games on it
oh my god if i broke it before i even got to play a game on it
a little bit of a short cable oh okay maybe my batteries are just dead
because it seems like it's working your controller needs an update uh
man i'm afraid to press buttons oh my
goodness it just how many times is it pressing the button here oh my god
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at the link below what do we want to try and play
forza oh my god did you see how many button presses that was
i think you're racing now am i wait what
oh oh nice triggers are fine triggers are perfect
so as long as all we need is the stick and that's weird
you saw that double input i was getting with the stick earlier right yeah it
feels fine oh yeah i'll press y to rewind oh the y
but
oh the right button is not
working uh hold on oh i got a little
accident what is even happening right now
oh my goodness okay camera angle
there we go come on give me that
hey there okay that's that's one oh oh i crashed again
you know what though man
cloth controller it would get
dirty okay but gamer hygiene
might be a problem but other than that man it's
comfy because it's not cold on your hands like you wouldn't get that
kind of that clammy like sweaty feeling i like it a lot
yeah yeah it's exactly like having carpeted floors it's way more
comfortable but like basically it's disgusting you know to be
clear i got wall-to-wall carpet in some parts of my house like it's just it's kind of like clothes that you could
never take off you know the only way to wash them is to
kind of like scrub them on your body like you do an okay job but it's not
great you know we just got to understand what it is okay
so functionality not amazing but it's not like this is a product that
microsoft is intending to sell or anything like that it was just a one-off
thing that they did for fun and i'm very grateful that they were
gracious enough to send it over to me to play with even though they
i mean they must have known that it wasn't gonna work perfectly so hey great
job you guys i think this is super cool i'm you know
i'm not saying we should have fabric controllers i'm just saying that
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