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[Odb718]

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No Xbox Controller Support For 360
>> From xbox360.ign.com:

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One of the big unanswered questions about Xbox 360 regards MS's plans for current generation peripherals. It's conceivable that gamers have built up a collection of Xbox controllers that they'd like to continue using on the next generation system. So will MS provide the chance?

The answer seems to be no, at least currently. Interviewed in the latest issue of Famitsu Xbox, MS Product Development Limited Xbox Chief Shinichi Manaka reveals that MS won't offer a USB converter to let players use their current controllers on the 360.
We presume 3rd party peripheral developers will come to the rescue here.

Read the whole article on xbox360.ign.com
(July 1 15:57 EST) - (direct link to article)
(Posted by:: XanTium)

Am I missing something here? Doesn't this product all ready exist? So are we to believe that the xbox 360 will have some mystical, magical USB port that wont allow standard usb devices, or will M$ make it so that the 360 wont accept the xbox's joysticks on purpose?

[crustyteacup]

well i think its just saying that MS will not provide 1st party adapters, so officially won't support it, you will be able to get them of course from 3rd party manufacturers but i don't know how they would hope to get the 360 itself to support it.

[tNCecil]

And I doubt youll be able to do it with cables that are out today. You need drivers or something to make it compatable.

[twistedsymphony]

QUOTE(tNCecil @ Jul 1 2005, 09:37 PM)

And I doubt youll be able to do it with cables that are out today. You need drivers or something to make it compatable.

[Hexx]

QUOTE(twistedsymphony @ Jul 2 2005, 01:08 AM)

there is a remote chance that they're built the same way as the 360 wired controllers and a standard USB adapter is all we need.

[munkle]

QUOTE(twistedsymphony @ Jul 1 2005, 11:08 PM)

there's no good reason for them to do this outside of wanting to sell more new controllers 

[blagmaster]

Ehm, guys...look at the first post of this thread, look at his username. Then look at the ''This post was edited by...'' It says edited by the laughin man, and to the right of it there is this date pic changing really fast.

This image .  

http://img273.echo.c...hahahaaa5fm.gif

never seen anything like this before on here

[Twasi]

It's part of his signiture or post, he just copied the edit text and made it look like it says it was edited by "the laughing man" and plugged in an image of that changing date.

Laughing man = genius hacker off of a anime series called Ghost in the shell stand alone complex.

[blagmaster]

lol he got me there, i thought x-s was getting hacked or something  

[Staple]

who wants wired controllers anyways? its all about the WIRELESS

[Odb718]

I want wired controllers!! have you played with wireless? they stink you got to almost point them dirrectly at the port any damn way. Who wants to wait to recharge the battery? Who wants to get up after a night of playing and put the controller on the charger? Who wants to pay for 4 rechargers?? What if you're playing a game, are almost to the last boss and boom your controller starts to fade?

Chord me please. Plus it make the joystick a million times easier to find.






Thanks about the sig deal. I thought it was pretty creative myself. The font type used to be selectable in the little font box. Not sure why they got rid of it. but this is the code to my sig..

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Incase you'd want to you know, bite my style.

[halofreak007]

i like wired controllers also they are so much easier unless your playing with a bunch of people

[Twasi]

With the technology M$ are using you will no longer have to point them directly at the port you also shouldn't get interference or lag between the controller and the console. As for the battery life, you won't have to wait for it to recharge since it gets 40 hour battery life off of 2 AA batteries. There is also a rechargable battery pack if you want to use it. If the battery pack dies just plug it into the USB port and keep playing. I know I'll use the rechargable battery pack and when it dies I'll just stick a few AA's in there and keep playing while it's charging and switch back when it's done. It seems like you could get well over a month with doing this with just one pair of AA's. Be happy you're not playing the PS3 it's battery life is a mere 24 hours.

[Carlo210]

QUOTE(Odb718 @ Jul 2 2005, 10:31 PM)

I want wired controllers!! have you played with wireless? they stink you got to almost point them dirrectly at the port any damn way.

[Odb718]

QUOTE(Carlo210 @ Jul 3 2005, 02:08 AM)

Then you plug in the charging kit and keep playing (you do know about the charge and play kit, dont you?) 

Yeah I know about the chargable battery and the charge kit. It sounds like $30 and $20 to me. So lets see, how many of you guys are gonna charge your battery packs 1 at a time? Their basically making a damn joystick be about $50. Even if you only bought two chargers thats like $60. $120 to keep your four joysticks up and running? FUCK THAT!

And how many times have all of us lost the remote for the TV?
One thing you guys arent thinking about is theft. I've brought four joysticks to a lan party and had bitches try to walk off with the and they were attached to the xbox. How easy would it be to steal the joystick with no wire?

See I don't think M$ is as smart as the regular guys. I'd have a button on the 360 like wireless phones do to page the joysticks. I doubt that feature will be on it.I think they should come with the damn recharger chord automatically so I dont have to worry about this stupid crap.