Revisions on the Xbox 360 Controller?
At Microsoft‘s Gamefest, Robert S. Walker, Microsoft’s product unit manager for hardware, discussed upcoming Xbox 360 peripherals like the Xbox Live Vision camera, that allows players to engage in video chats, take their pictures and add it as an in-game character complete with facial features and the Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel with true force feedback support, perfect for titles like Project Gotham Racing 3 and Forza Motorsport 2.
However, more interesting is an insinuation that there are also plans to make revisions to the Xbox 360’s existing controller. These raised questions on whether it will be motion sensors like those found in Nintendo’s Wii, which Walker candidly replied that they’ve done testing and prototypes with similar features for the Xbox 360.
However, since most of the players that have tested the motion-sensing prototypes complained of fatigue after using it for an extended period of time, thus making refining the standard analog stick movement another option. Also, he made it clear that support for keyboard and mouse for in-game playing titles like Halo 3 is not going to happen.
Other accessories covered were the possibility of wireless headphones and the Microsoft Zune music video player.
Via shacknews
At Microsoft‘s Gamefest, Robert S. Walker, Microsoft’s product unit manager for hardware, discussed upcoming Xbox 360 peripherals like the Xbox Live Vision camera, that allows players to engage in video chats, take their pictures and add it as an in-game character complete with facial features and the Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel with true force feedback support, perfect for titles like Project Gotham Racing 3 and Forza Motorsport 2.
However, more interesting is an insinuation that there are also plans to make revisions to the Xbox 360’s existing controller. These raised questions on whether it will be motion sensors like those found in Nintendo’s Wii, which Walker candidly replied that they’ve done testing and prototypes with similar features for the Xbox 360.
However, since most of the players that have tested the motion-sensing prototypes complained of fatigue after using it for an extended period of time, thus making refining the standard analog stick movement another option. Also, he made it clear that support for keyboard and mouse for in-game playing titles like Halo 3 is not going to happen.
Other accessories covered were the possibility of wireless headphones and the Microsoft Zune music video player.
Via shacknews
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