Do 360 controllers work on a PC?

[Raqia]

Has anyone tried and how well does it work?

 

[see colon]

the wired xb360 controllers are usb and are windows compatable.
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/gaming/productdetails.aspx

 

[Inane_Dork]

I've tried it. There are two things that are currently not so great about it:
1) It doesn't work with every game (though a given, it's still something to consider).
2) The D-pad is mapped in such a way that many games cannot assign things to the individual directions. That is, if you assign 'up' on the D-pad to be health packs, the 'down' on the D-pad becomes unusable unless there is an opposite function to the one you assigned to 'up'.

Aside from that, there's really nothing lacking that I found.

 

[AlNom]

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2) The D-pad is mapped in such a way that many games cannot assign things to the individual directions. That is, if you assign 'up' on the D-pad to be health packs, the 'down' on the D-pad becomes unusable unless there is an opposite function to the one you assigned to 'up'.

That really blows. It can't be that hard to make each direction an independent function. This would be a per-game limitation, would it not?

 

[pjbliverpool]

That really blows. It can't be that hard to make each direction an independent function. This would be a per-game limitation, would it not?

Yes its per game, as the pad becomes more established, more games will cater to it and support will become much, much better until eventually its on a par with the X360 itself.

Thats the plan anyway.

Also, MS plans to support the wireless version and the dashboard button.