Microsoft video shows the inside of Xbox One controller

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Microsoft seems to be pretty proud of the new controller it designed for the upcoming Xbox One game console. It has offered lots of information about the device in the past few months, including a long video clip posted just a couple of weeks ago. This week, the company released yet another clip centering on the controller, but this one is a little different.

The video, uploaded to YouTube on the official Xbox channel, has Microsoft's marketing manager Graeme Boyd chatting with Quintin Morris, the lead designer on the Xbox One controller, at Microsoft's design labs. Unlike other videos, this one shows Morris actually disassembling the Xbox One controller on camera to show its printed circuit boards, or PCBs.

The video shows how the PCBs have been designed to accommodate the Xbox One controller's battery so it can fit inside the casing without creating a bulge, as it does for the Xbox 360 controller. Morris said that it was difficult to get this new battery design to work with the Xbox One gamepad.

As a consequence of the battery changes, Morris says in the video that this allowed the lower section of the Xbox One controller to be thinner and also let the design team make the hand grip surface of the device more comfortable to hold for gamers.

Later on in the video, Morris shows the inside of the controller again as he talks about its new triggers. The Xbox 360 controller has mechanical parts inside for its triggers but for the Xbox One, Microsoft eliminated those parts in favor of magnetic digital trigger sensors. Morris says this makes them twice as sensitive as the Xbox 360 version. If you have any engineering interest in game console hardware development, this video is definitely one to check out



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-CPPosted:

I don't want rumble though :/

-RetroPosted:

That's awesome that the triggers now have rumble.

Michael1321Posted:

Im looking forward to trying this controller out, seems better than the 360 anyway

WLRPosted:

November Is Going To Be The Best

BrosPosted:

Dr-J
Xbox-Two
Dr-J
Boar
Dr-J
Pufferfish These new thumbsticks look a bit harder to use than 360.


Trust me they're better I used the controller at e3


Does it feel bigger than the current controller? I would love to hear some stuff about it, PM me maybe it will be interesting to hear.


I PMed you a bunch of info! Any more needed ask


pm me the info too ;)


I PMed you too dude.
Anything else let me know


PM me the info too bro, thanks!

Dr-JPosted:

Xbox-Two
Dr-J
Boar
Dr-J
Pufferfish These new thumbsticks look a bit harder to use than 360.


Trust me they're better I used the controller at e3


Does it feel bigger than the current controller? I would love to hear some stuff about it, PM me maybe it will be interesting to hear.


I PMed you a bunch of info! Any more needed ask


pm me the info too ;)


I PMed you too dude.
Anything else let me know

MarkzehhPosted:

Any news on a release date I've preordered it and all I know is that I'm getting it in November, they should have announced before now tbh

Xbox-TwoPosted:

Dr-J
Boar
Dr-J
Pufferfish These new thumbsticks look a bit harder to use than 360.


Trust me they're better I used the controller at e3


Does it feel bigger than the current controller? I would love to hear some stuff about it, PM me maybe it will be interesting to hear.


I PMed you a bunch of info! Any more needed ask


pm me the info too ;)

-Ben-Posted:

this controller looks a lot more comfey than the last

_BalePosted:

I like the fact that there wont be the big battery on the back anymore :)