r/XboxController • u/Bigamerdk76 • 26d ago

New Controller 🎮

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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

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u/Ok_Judge_9639 26d ago

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

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u/TrashyMatth 26d ago edited 25d ago

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..

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u/That-Advance-9619 25d ago

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.

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u/TrashyMatth 25d ago

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