Project Scarlette Controllers?

[Harry Voyager]

Does anyone have any news on what the XBox Project Scarlette controllers will be like? Are we looking at the same basic XBox controller? 

 

Also, are there more than cosmetic differences between the various XBox controller generations? Haven't really looked into it much yet. 

[Slottr]

No one really knows anything aside from that it exists, and a few vague tech specs.

[Harry Voyager]

@SlottrAh. Any idea if it will contain a trackpad like the PS4 controller did? Thinking about flight sim controls on it, and a mouse-like.thing would be handy. 

[Slottr]

Just now, Harry Voyager said:

@SlottrAh. Any idea if it will contain a trackpad like the PS4 controller did? Thinking about flight sim controls on it, and a mouse-like.thing would be handy. 

Pretty sure the console is going to have mouse and keyboard support

 

The current consoles are already pushing them out, so that wouldn't surprise me.

[Harry Voyager]

3 minutes ago, Slottr said:

Pretty sure the console is going to have mouse and keyboard support

 

The current consoles are already pushing them out, so that wouldn't surprise me.

Interesting, though in this case I'm more thinking about way to cram 8-12 effective axis into an XBox controller, and a mousepad would actually cover two of them pretty well. Probably going to use the shoulder buttons as doublers, ala FFXIV style. 

 

I think I see how to do it without the pad though. I'll need to see if I can hook up one of my old Xbox 360 controllers and try it. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

5 hours ago, Harry Voyager said:

Ah. Any idea if it will contain a trackpad like the PS4 controller did? Thinking about flight sim controls on it, and a mouse-like.thing would be handy. 

Very few developers use either the SIXAXIS function or the touch pad function of the DualShock 4 to any meaningful effect, so I don't imagine Microsoft would put it in on the new controller.