The upcoming #Xbox controller seems to be pulling #Microsoft out of the controller dark ages straight into the present.
Two key features that were sorely needed are shown here:
* Accelerometer: Gyro aiming has become essential to many for FPS games, the days of having to use a third-party controller that allows you to map the gyro to the mouse or stick will finally be over! Native gyro implementations will be possible.
* Direct to cloud: Bringing the Stadia controller experience to Microsoft cloud gaming, this is really nice to have too! While Microsoft's cloud gaming isn't anywhere near as usable as #Stadia was it is slowly improving, I hope that eventually, it will catch up to where #google was years ago.
@gpowerf I don't care about cloud at all, my controller doesn't need to connect to the Internet directly. I also don't like buzzy "precision haptics", let alone trying to use them as a speaker. Short of legitimate force feedback, big rumbly motors are still best.
Yay for repairability and gyro, though.