DenchDeckard
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Fuck me I'm buying a whole console aren't I. Or definitely this controller.
Starfield Special Edition Controller (possibly fake/custom but I hope not)
Vognerful
Member
Bro you better be not fooling us here!
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
A console looking like that is gonna be sick.
Dammit. I'll try to stick to just tge controller.
Dammit. I'll try to stick to just tge controller.
VR_RaidenXOF
Member
I'll be buying day 1, hopefully June 11th.
Bumblebeetuna
Member
Damn, buying if real.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
I really like it. I'll probably bite.
Hey Blinkin
Member
It's definitely real. I work at a major retailer and saw it today.
lughnasadh123
Member
Hell I want one and I don't even have a Series.
SirTerry-T
Member
The whole thing smacks of that retro 70's vibe, Atari box artwork, Silent Running...even the old Hayne's car manuals...I've always felt they took a lot of inspiration from the breakout box art for starfields marketing.
Top marks to the art director(s), brand team, they're doing a great job.
Kvally
Member
Holy shit. Need Anal Ease?
Giallo Corsa
Member
It's a really good looking controller but , in the end, it doesn't really matter since :
- The L1 and R1 bumper buttons will still be fragile as fuck.
- The Left and Tight triggers will develop the "clickety clack" aka plastic rubbing on plastic sound either out of the box or, develop it after a short while due to the cheap as fuck method MS is using as sound dampeners/stops aka thin as fuck rubber strips GLUED to the lower chassis of the joypad (which obviously get detached and/or wear off after a while).
- Stick drift
- Vibration motors out of proper alignment which produce a terrible buzzing/rattling plastic sound either out of the box or develop it a couple of.months down the line.
- Sticky A/Y face buttons.
- Loud as fuck Dpad (although this is most probably by design and not a quality control issue)
The Series controller is one of the worst pieces of hardware I've ever had the misfortune of using, terrible, absolutely terrible quality control, shame since it's very ergonomic but...
- The L1 and R1 bumper buttons will still be fragile as fuck.
- The Left and Tight triggers will develop the "clickety clack" aka plastic rubbing on plastic sound either out of the box or, develop it after a short while due to the cheap as fuck method MS is using as sound dampeners/stops aka thin as fuck rubber strips GLUED to the lower chassis of the joypad (which obviously get detached and/or wear off after a while).
- Stick drift
- Vibration motors out of proper alignment which produce a terrible buzzing/rattling plastic sound either out of the box or develop it a couple of.months down the line.
- Sticky A/Y face buttons.
- Loud as fuck Dpad (although this is most probably by design and not a quality control issue)
The Series controller is one of the worst pieces of hardware I've ever had the misfortune of using, terrible, absolutely terrible quality control, shame since it's very ergonomic but...
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Kvally
Member
Glad that hasn't happened to me in all my controllers. Yikes
Nah fits like a glove, sideways.
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
I'll just get the controller will have to pass on the console as I imagine the pro will come in a 18 months or so.
Esppiral
Member
Because...?For the record I love NASA but no amount of homage paying could get me to play starfield
Skifi28
Member
In space no one can hear you drift.
PharaoTutAnchAmun
Member
I know its a bit tacky remark but here it goes: Xbox has almost more Special edition controllers then AA(A) games.I really do quite like this design.
I could see Xbox bring out a White Series X with a very similar design language, which imo would look pretty sweet next to the Halo Infinite one.
Getting tempted back into doing some amateur design work for Starfield (do find Photoshop/Illustrator therapeutic)
P.s. seems to be a custom controller
A quick look on Wikipidia tells you that theyr are around 78 special edition controller in two generations, so the Xbox One and the XboxseriesX and S. now number 79 is coming...
Now dont be mad and posting furious comments...cool down, its just a joke
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PharaoTutAnchAmun
Member
So here is de controller color design that Sony has stolen and used it as the design for the PS5 dualsence, does copycats!!This is still one of my favorite designs for a Xb1 controller, Lunar White
Fess
Member
Wait it's actually real? Thought it was confirmed being fake.
I need an Elite like this! But I'll buy this while waiting.
analog_future
Resident Crybaby
Wtf are you doing to your controllers?
MidGenRefresh
*Refreshes biennially
Sexy piece of electronics but I'll stick to mouse and keyboard.
PharaoTutAnchAmun
Member
I know its a bit tacky remark but here it goes: Xbox has almost more Special edition controllers then AA(A) games.
A quick look on Wikipidia tells you that theyr are around 78 special edition controller in two generations, so the Xbox One and the XboxseriesX and S. now number 79 is coming...
Now dont be mad and posting furious comments...cool down, its just a joke
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Gorgon
Member
I'm kind of in the same predicament. I'm planing to jump into the Xbox bandwagon this gen as my main console (because I don't do PC gaming anymore and I actually prefer MS's exclusives to Sony's this gen, so I want to build my future game library on the Xbox instead of on the PS) but I'm feeling torn between waiting for the XSX Pro in 1.5 - 2.5 years from now or to jump in in about a week when I come back from a work trip. And the Pro consoles may very well only hit in late 2025 instead of late 2024 due to delays in production and limited availability of the launch ones until now. MS and Sony may want to strech this gen a bit more.
ive never once had any issues across all my years with a single first party controller across sony/sega/ms.
Chukhopops
Member
Did you just quote yourself after nobody took your bait?I know its a bit tacky remark but here it goes: Xbox has almost more Special edition controllers then AA(A) games.
A quick look on Wikipidia tells you that theyr are around 78 special edition controller in two generations, so the Xbox One and the XboxseriesX and S. now number 79 is coming...
Now dont be mad and posting furious comments...cool down, its just a joke
Yeah I've never seen any of those issues except the clicky d-pad and that's by design.
All I ever saw is the right trigger spring dying after hundreds of hours on the launch XBO controller.
Nydius
Member
I have three Series controllers — the launch day black one that came with it, Aqua Shift, and the Space Jam Metaverse one — and I don't have any of these issues. Well except for the loud D-pad one but, as you say, that's by design not really an "issue".
Meanwhile, the white DualSense that came with the PS5 I got last May already has significant drift on the left stick.
Personally, I think all three console companies have cut corners on their controller quality.
As for the topic, I like the look of this but not really sure I can justify buying it when I already have three controllers and only use one at a time. Plus I imagine it's likely going to be $5-$10 more expensive than the regular ones, which are already painfully expensive.
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Special edition controller for an upcoming, major AAA game. Not the same as the usual color options.
Why this thread is attracting this much trolling is a mystery to me.
TransTrender
Gold Member
Why does a controller have a PEGI rating?
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There will likely be an in-game item attached to it.
Miyazaki’s Slave
Gold Member
//DEVIL//
Member
I would have agreed with you if it was rainbow, however it's more of old VHS style color logos or something . Doesn't have the rainbow feel to me anyway.
Faust
Perpetually Tired
It has grown on me since.
ThatOneGrunt
Member
All the comments on Gaf have started to sound the same to me....
Isa
Member
I agree, I think that they might try to stretch out the gen a bit longer and I'm not upset by it in the slightest. I want these devs to really break in the systems, seems like there is still so much crossgen support. If anything you could get a system and trade it for a Pro version should it ever become reality.
On topic I think that controller looks great and might snag one even though I have four now lol(just got the Steller Shift color). Can't wait to finally play Starfield.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
It's inspired by some NASA logo imagery, you can see the color scheme (blue, yellow, orange, red) is identical.
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Rockondevil
Member
I originally said I wouldn't get it but now I'm considering it more.
Honestly for me it depends if the grips are rubber or not. I don't like the rubber ones as that'll break long before the controller does and that's super annoying.
Otherwise if it's real, which it seems very likely, I'll probably get one if I can find one.
Honestly for me it depends if the grips are rubber or not. I don't like the rubber ones as that'll break long before the controller does and that's super annoying.
Otherwise if it's real, which it seems very likely, I'll probably get one if I can find one.