I did NOT think of how this would effect hitboxes and fight sticks when I first saw this news.

  • DayOfDoom [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Why would XBOX/Microsoft do this? There’s no way the tiny amount of sales in first-party peripherals this would nudge would rival how many people are going to switch consoles or buy games on another console – or give up entirely. Only reason I could see would be hacking vulnerabilities and they were worried people could softmod/homebrew their XBOXs with a peripheral somehow.

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      1 year ago

      My friend thinks the amount of people who will have to switch from third party controllers to official ones will in fact make more of a difference than people switching to PC or Playstation but idk either.

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        1 year ago

        Controllers and stuff are so expensive. They’re like 1/4 the price of a console now, especially anything niche-ish like fight sticks and steering wheels. I would Seriously consider switching if I had an XBOX-whatever and this happened. They’re so stupid. I would be pissed if Sony did this because I use a Brooks converter on that GT5 Logitech steering wheel so it works on PS4.