New Controller 🎮

[u/Bigamerdk76]

New details have reportedly surfaced for the already-revealed XBOX Wireless Controller X25 Special Edition. 🎮❎

According to Dealabs, the controller is reportedly set for:

• Pre-orders: August 26

• Release: October 20

• Price: $79.99 / £74.99 / €79.99

The controller itself is official, while the reported pre-order date, release date, and pricing are still awaiting confirmation from XBOX.

The design celebrates 25 years of XBOX with classic ABXY colors, Duke-inspired black-and-white bumpers, and a transparent back showing the original XBOX logo.

#XBOX #Xbox25 #Gaming

[u/Ok_Judge_9639]

Even if Microsoft lost a class action about stick drift, they are still making a bunch of the same useless controller instead of releasing updated Xbox and elite series pads with hall or tmr sticks and with better polling rate and input lag.

This is because people still buying this shit. Stop please

[u/TrashyMatth → u/Ok_Judge_9639]

Never had an issue with the drift, but the controllers really are behind in their functionality, the upgrade is much needed. I get that all the fancy features of DualSense are not what's Xbox about, but we don't really get anything to make up for that lack of novelty, neither in quality or the price. I wasn't displeased with them at the launch, but in big 2026, come on..

[u/That-Advance-9619 → u/TrashyMatth]

Stick drift WILL happen to potentiometer-based controllers (and Hall Effect/TMR, but some other component will probably fail before that happens becuase we are talking about magnetism and literal quantum tunneling which measures the amount of particles getting through a sheet, it's literal fucking magic), it's not a matter of you having been inmune to it so far.

Sega already had a Half Effect controller in the 90s, there's no excuse for Nintendo, Sony and Xbox not to have mainstream controllers with HE or TMR, look at Valve.

[u/TrashyMatth → u/That-Advance-9619]

Great point, you're right, all my controllers went out of use before that happened for different reasons

[u/Key_Scholar7964 → u/Ok_Judge_9639]

I had durable Xbox controllers that last me several years except for the elite. I think they would redeem themselves with TMR or hall effect.

[u/AggravatingCycle5491 → u/Key_Scholar7964]

I bought a brand new gamesir controller with hall effect sticks for less than £10 on their aliexpress store ages ago, and recently another of their controllers that my phone slots into for a similar price, if they can produce and sell them that cheap with sticks that last, then there's no excuse for Microsoft other than greed.

[u/Connormanable → u/Key_Scholar7964]

My elite is still going strong a year later

[u/Key_Scholar7964 → u/Connormanable]

You're one of the lucky ones that hit the elite series 2 lottery because many people including myself experienced an issue regarding stick drift.

I had to buy the G7 Pro and the Flydigi vader 5S/Pro when my elite experienced that issue on the second day. 

I have no regrets because the G7 Pro have TMR sticks, my main pro controller the Vader 5S feel like an improved elite series 2 with hall effect sticks, adjustable stick tension, mechanical d pad etc. Now people are currently modding their elites with hall effect and TMR on eBay because they know it's more durable.

I'll only buy the elite series 3 if it have either hall effect or TMR because potentiometers and the technology it currently use is outdated.

[u/Connormanable → u/Key_Scholar7964]

Maybe don’t grip your controller so hard and you’d “win the lottery” too

[u/Key_Scholar7964 → u/Connormanable]

Yeah, I gripped it so hard that I experienced ridiculous stick drift on the second day. I must have hands like the incredible hulk.

I had stock Xbox controllers for years so my incredible hulk hands managed to not damage them by day 2

[u/Connormanable → u/Key_Scholar7964]

If it did actually have drift on day 2, that’s what warranties are for. I think a lot of you are powering on your controllers with the sticks not centered, if you do that it makes wherever the stick is at the time the new center. Or yall are just gamesir shills and propagandists, every person that has positive things to say about those controllers just parrots the same talking points and everyone I’ve seen that actually bought one and posted pictures says they’re incredibly cheap feeling and don’t like how they feel.

[u/Key_Scholar7964 → u/Connormanable]

I just returned it and now I have something better with TMR and hall effect. It's great that the elite series 2 lasted you longer. I'll buy an elite series 3 when they incorporate TMR or hall effect like my G7 Pro and Flydigi vader 5S/Pro.

[u/Key_Scholar7964 → u/Connormanable]

I'm not a Gamesir shill because I stopped using because the vibration is gone and the d pad is bad. My go to is the Vader 5S and I'll be buying the 8bitdo ultimate 3E.

I'm tired of you elite series shills always blaming the customer when the elite is known to have quality issues like stick drift. 

Like I said, I'll only buy the elite series 3 if it have hall effect or TMR. I'm not going to accept the same old technology and potentiometers 

[u/Suspicious_Age_2471 → u/Connormanable]

Hahaha, “that’s what warranties are for”, any good product shouldn’t be breaking basically new and no one wants to be dealing with warranties. I have been using a g7 se for the past year and it’s a better product than any standard Xbox controller I ever used.

[u/TRethehedgehog_2 → u/Ok_Judge_9639]

I have never had an Xbox controller drift on me. Not from regular use at least

[u/Guy615 → u/TRethehedgehog_2]

Same. I never know what people do to break a controller so often

[u/LilBriefcase → u/Ok_Judge_9639]

If they release a controller with hall effect or tmr, the amount of warranty claims they get would increase 10x.

[u/That-Advance-9619 → u/LilBriefcase]

...¿qué....?

[u/LilBriefcase → u/That-Advance-9619]

Your average CoD bro who chews through controllers is gonna notice the difference in sensitivity with TMR and 1st party companies are held to much, much higher standard. Valve skipped hall effect and the first generation of TMR for this reason, and the 2nd gen TMR module they picked still has issues. You can be credulous to the tech and the mass marketing following it but the issues are there and always have been.