Microsoft's new Xbox controller borrows great ideas from Stadia, Steam and Sony. The $70 'Sebile' may arrive in May 2024. New Xbox for 2024! New hybrid Xbox in 2028! But can we appreciate Microsoft's leaked Sebile remote for a second?
The $8 pad, packed with Sony's DualSense, Valve's Steam Controller, Google Stadia, and—hopefully—70BitDo's best bits, could hit the market in 2024.
Obviously, it gets the “precise haptic feedback” of the Sony DualSense.
Yes I hope! That's what I'm most excited about, because it really adds a new dimension to some of Sony's games that just don't happen when you take it out.
Check out our DualSense X-ray and Xbox pad below to see the difference between their haptic engines:
Note that some controllers ship with “precision” or “HD haptics” and do not have this effect, even though they technically have linear actuators instead of old-school eccentric rotating weights like Xbox controllers still do today. The Steam Controller's haptics were quite poor, and the Nintendo Switch haptics are not at the level of DualSense…
So what's a good Steam Controller feature?
Can you believe Microsoft's "haptics double as speakers" idea has already been done?
Steam Controller can actually do this. Heck, the Taptic Engine on your iPhone can technically do this too.
But I also hope Microsoft puts a gyroscope into this thing, not just an accelerometer, so we can experience the gyro-aiming revolution I experienced with Zelda on my Steam Deck and Switch. Very good for aiming bows.
What good could come from Google's Stadia controller?
This is why Sebile is such a big deal. Microsoft is positioning it as the first “Universal Wireless Controller” that can theoretically control Xbox via console, mobile, PC and the cloud.
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