As Microsoft brings increasingly of its video games to different platforms, you is perhaps feeling some consumers regret, however a brand new third-party Xbox Sequence X controller may assist.
Final November, Xbox launched a brand new marketing campaign beneath the slogan “This Is an Xbox“, speaking about an precise Xbox, your TV, your cellphone, your laptop computer. Basically, it is saying which you can play Xbox video games anyplace, even when it is technically not an Xbox. That kind of makes the purpose of proudly owning the console Xbox a bit moot, so I might perceive for those who’re beginning to really feel such as you want you’d picked up a PS5 as an alternative, seeing as Sony do not appear to have any intention to convey its video games to something aside from PC, and solely two years after the actual fact.
Fortunately, you may quickly at the very least assist your self really feel such as you’re not taking part in an Xbox, even when you’ll really be taking part in an Xbox (may make a ingesting sport out of all of the occasions I’ve written Xbox right here, I reckon). It is CES 2025 for the time being, one of many largest techs round, and peripheral maker Hyperkin has simply introduced a model new Xbox controller. It is known as The Competitor, and within the video above you would possibly discover that it appears to be like just a bit bit acquainted.
The controller has clearly been designed to appear like the PS5’s DualSense, with analogue sticks degree subsequent to one another, clear plastic buttons, and a smooth white and black design. In case you solely took a fast look at it you’d most likely suppose it was a DualSense! However that Xbox brand button rather than the touchpad provides the sport away fairly rapidly.
It’s also possible to use The Competitor (nice title, by the way in which) on PC, so in case your Xbox is definitely your laptop, you are sorted there! Now all we want is an Xbox-themed PlayStation controller and we’re set.