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[PhatSaqs]

Good shit.
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox360/controllers.htm

You'll have a choice of the plain wireless controller, which runs off of a pair of AA batteries that should give you plenty of play time before running out, or you can also use the rechargeable battery pack (sold separately) with a play-charge cable, which temporarily turns your wireless controller into the wired variety, but only as long as it takes to recharge your gear. That means you'll never have to stop playing, even if it's 2:00 A.M. and the stores are closed. It's an ingenious little piece of equipment. "If your batteries die in the middle of a game session," Ranta told us, "You can just snap the cable in, keep playing, and it's charging your batteries at the same time."

 

[BuddyC]

rechargeable battery pack (sold separately)

 

[ArcadeStickMonk]

Me, Dark10x, and others have been pitching this wireless model for a few years now. Good to see it come to fruition, although the "sold separately" bit was purely a MS twist.

Now I wanna see complete gamer profiles (accounts, saves, controls) kept in removable memory in each controller. Tired of the Halo profile shit.

New Player 01
New Player 02
New Player 03
New Player 04
stinky nutz
New Player 05

 

[CO_Andy]

Bout time a decent wireless X-Box controller came out, and it's official brand to boot!

 

[IntestineBoy]

Okay so... I posted this stuff in October:

http://forums.gaming-age.com/showpost.php?p=519451&postcount=12

Well, if the batteries get low in your Wavebird, you're screwed if you're in the middle of a game, right? Xbox wont have that problem. I can't go into more details on the versatility, but basically Xbox is taking what they learned from Wavebird, and expanding upon it, and it works outstandingly

http://forums.gaming-age.com/showthread.php?p=520317#post520317

I didn't mean to say that the Xbox cont. would be magically powered, but perhaps there are more than one way to power the thing. Think of a cordless drill. Battery goes down, pop in a different power pack, right? Think of that sort of thing.

As for my versatility comment, it has more to do with a controller being able to be wireless, and not wireless at times as well.

Xbox is doing things very smart. We'll all be impressed whenever we see the wireless system. Things'll be more 'portable' than the Wavebird. It's hard to elaborate on that further without spilling all the beans.

and there was this pic floating around:

So I guess.... I was right.

 

[Hero]

Not hating or anything, but it was pretty apparent that this was the next logical evolution of the wireless controllers. I and many others speculated on this before.

 

[The Faceless Master]

so wait...

(1) there is a rechargeable battery w/ playcharge cable (sold seperately)

(2) the playcharge cable only works with the rechargeable battery (sold seperately)

(3) out of the box, you're screwed with a wireless controller that needs batteries until you buy the rechargeable battery w/ playcharge cable pak (sold seperately)

sounds less and less like a convenience and more and more like a way to make money instead of having a true wired controller, when nothing is stopping them from having both wired and wireless support!

 

[PhatSaqs]

so wait...

(1) there is a rechargeable battery w/ playcharge cable (sold seperately)

(2) the playcharge cable only works with the rechargeable battery (sold seperately)

(3) out of the box, you're screwed with a wireless controller that needs batteries until you buy the rechargeable battery w/ playcharge cable pak (sold seperately)

sounds less and less like a convenience and more and more like a way to make money instead of having a true wired controller, when nothing is stopping them from having both wired and wireless support!

Theres both a wired and wireless controller. At least that's what it says on Xbox.com

 

[The Faceless Master]

Theres both a wired and wireless controller. At least that's what it says on Xbox.com

oh... in that case, nevermind...

hope you can use a usb hub to have 4 wired controllers...

 

[Azih]

Dude all 3 of your points were saying the same thing :lol

But sadly MS is learning the console business well (peripherals = THE MAD CASH), wireless controller will probably be slightly more expensive than wired and then you have to buy the rechargeable pack to make it truly functional.

 

[The Faceless Master]

Dude all 3 of your points were saying the same thing :lol

But sadly MS is learning the console business well (peripherals = THE MAD CASH), wireless controller will probably be slightly more expensive than wired and then you have to buy the rechargeable pack to make it truly functional.

so basically, $29.95 regular, $39.95 wireless, $14.95 battery pak...

actually, i'm probably lowballing the price...

 

[PhatSaqs]

so basically, $29.95 regular, $39.95 wireless, $14.95 battery pak...

actually, i'm probably lowballing the price...

Either way we're gonna get raped.

 

[ChrisReid]

I'm actually a huge fan of the AAs, not rechargeables. As great as lithium ion is getting, it still seems to get weak after extended use. The thing runs for 40 hours off two AAs. I can get 50 (great quality) AAs for $10 at Costco. It only costs $0.01 cents an hour that way. I could play 1500 hours before a recharge pack begins to work out better economically, and after 1500 hours, a recharge pack would (in my experience) be losing its charge time and acting cranky (and need to be replaced).

 

[goodcow]

I'm actually a huge fan of the AAs, not rechargeables. As great as lithium ion is getting, it still seems to get weak after extended use. The thing runs for 40 hours off two AAs. I can get 50 (great quality) AAs for $10 at Costco. It only costs $0.01 cents an hour that way. I could play 1500 hours before a recharge pack begins to work out better economically, and after 1500 hours, a recharge pack would (in my experience) be losing its charge time and acting cranky (and need to be replaced).

Your plan doesn't help the enviornment.

 

[Srider]

I'm actually a huge fan of the AAs, not rechargeables. As great as lithium ion is getting, it still seems to get weak after extended use. The thing runs for 40 hours off two AAs. I can get 50 (great quality) AAs for $10 at Costco. It only costs $0.01 cents an hour that way. I could play 1500 hours before a recharge pack begins to work out better economically, and after 1500 hours, a recharge pack would (in my experience) be losing its charge time and acting cranky (and need to be replaced).

This is the kind of mentality that makes microtransactions work, while the rest of us eat the effects of it with money we don't want to throw away.

 

[The Faceless Master]

i'm actually a huge fan of spending lots and lots of money

i mean, i give 20's to bums on the street

i make paper airplanes of 50's, they fly so well

i just LOOOVE not mailing in mail-in rebates

 

[Nerevar]

i'm actually a huge fan of spending lots and lots of money

i mean, i give 20's to bums on the street

i make paper airplanes of 50's, they fly so well

i just LOOOVE not mailing in mail-in rebates

... are you Bill Gates?