XBOX 2 controller pics

Personally, I prefer the Controller S to the above white one. It might surprise me, but as it stands, my favorite remains the black one above (which I hope doesn't change apart from some extra buttons or functionality like a trackball).

I really hope you don't intend to ruin your own topic, but before you take this into another tired cpu x > cpu y debate - I think it was clear that Guden Oden was refering to the Xbox's CPU relative to the Xbox's total performance relativ to the timeframe it was launched. It's been debated a few times already and I think it's an overal established point that the CPU is the Xbox's weakest link and that it could have been shipped with something better at the time (i.e. AMD's solution if it weren't for cost reasons). I believe this is what Guden was refering to. If not, I stand corrected, but this obviously shouldn't be of any argument in this topic to beginn with.

 

Maybe I am missing something here... but it is a controller. i.e. function first. Maybe the newer design ergonomics and size proportions are superior to the Xbox controller? Colors can change, and surely 3rd parties will have new takes on the design. But looks really are secondary to performance.

Just my Two cents

 

Dude, this is the console forum. Its not how well you play the game, its how you look doing it.

 

Ohhhhh... I thought that was the portable forum

 

Absolutley agree.


Eventhough it isn't a concern for me, I think it looks neat.

 

That's a very strong opinion.

I'm willing to bet that there are a lot of people who would prefer white over black. It all depends on the industrial design.

 

Looks ok to me. The white colour certainly helps it look better.
So the ball in the middle isn't a trackball? I was hoping it was, as it is there seems to be litle to get excited on, at least on innovation standpoint.

PS2 had very similar controler to PSOne, with just the analogueness of the buttons added, xbox2 will possibly have a very similar layout to Controller-S.
Keeping the layout similar is good for not alienating the current customers and keeping backwards compatibility.
Nintendo might also go with a similar layout to current GC controller, but with a touchscreen added there somewhere.

One thing that really annoys me. If the PSP and PS2 pics were on that colony website and if that colony thing indeed is a MS PR for xbox2, that smells too much like they are (again) trying to ride on the PlayStation brand success.
Not everybody will get it as a joke, but will indeed think it's all about the next PlayStation. If the xbox2 launches with the name Xenon, I'm sure many will (again) be confused it is "the new PlayStation".
Call me paranoid, but I think it's intentional by MS, and it's lame.

 

A brushed aliminium controller! That's the dumbest idea I ever heard.

It would be cool though.

 

And expensive too...

 

damn the expenses!

Make it a Limited Edition

 

Yea, well, I'm not you, and I don't care what you think. IMO, they're all perfectly valid reasons. If the box had been fugly, but not huge as a friggin lunchtray I wouldn't have minded it, or if it was huge but looked cool it might actually have been a bonus with me (I like big stuff that looks cool, that's why I got the Z680 speaker set for example). But not both at the same time. And as for games I like, GC and PS2 have all the games I could ever hope for, so I don't give a flying you-know-what about Bill Gates' nightmare of a console.

And the CPU should of course have been a duron, but instead it was that loser POS celery...

Obviously you should stick to talking about yourself and your own preferences, like I do, but fans tend to get upset when their objects of worship are criticized so I kind of understand anyway...

The devil's in the details I guess. It looks bad to me, just deal with it, okay?

Not if the sheen is still there in production copies.

It's not smooth, it's matte. At least on my PS2 controller, I don't know what yours look like.

You kiddin me? GC controller si teh king from both a quality and ergonomics standpoint. Nintendo sure knows how to build a great controller that feels wicked to hold, though they couldn't get 3rd party support for it if their life depended on it!

I don't need to see what's INSIDE it to see that from an external standpoint pretty much NOTHING has changed. And that's really depressing, because to evolve gameplay to the next level we should have next-level controllers too.

It'll be as depressing if all that differs between box and nextbox controllers are nothing but the placement of two buttons and absence of memcard slots (pretty much) as when Sony revealed the dual-shock 2 pad and all that differed from the original dual-shock was analog buttons and the color. :?

That's way depressing!

"Only minor things" is very subjective. Of course, if one regards controller S as you seem to do, as pretty much the peak of evolution, then there's not much that can be done, but remember, controller S lacks force feedback, top hat and throttle just to mention a few things that are available on PC joypads.

Let's not be like that patent office director who said all that could be invented has been, because it hasn't. Trust me on this... And if we haven't had tilt sensors in pads yet, how do you know the only possible use for it would be a gimmicky one?

That's because you're a box fan. You automatically disregard anything negative in a knee-jerk fashion. Don't think I ever saw you say anything that wasn't positive about the box actually...

 

You know, having this discussion with you is sort of like me saying I don't like smoking cigars, and you lecturing me of why my reasons for not liking cigars are childish, strange or whatever other adjectives you've used so far in the thread. You know, personal preference doesn't WORK that way, sorry I don't like your favorite console as much as you obviously do, but you just gotta learn to DEAL WITH IT, okay? It doesn't diminish you as a person that others don't like teh xbox.

As for the rest in your reply - I've said my piece and my point stands.

 

u know, u not like something u need not insult it and peoples behind it as worst thing in history.

qroach is far from childish than u call him.

u are falling into same posting style as others with 1-sided aggression and blinded nitpicking denial towards Microsoft. that is what irritates qroach immersely.

if everyone do like u, all hell break loss. so who childish?

 

yes that what my meaning.

this guy is doing the be louder and bolder wins the day, to innocently pass himself and his insultive reasonings as holier than thou matter of fact.

 

I didn't insult anyone, problem with fanpeople (like you, obviously, together with religious nutters etc) is that criticism against your worshipped object is automatically categorized as insults. I just stated the personal opinion that a glossy-white controller don't look all that hot to me. I don't go and get my panties all in a bind when people dis the GC because of the handle on the back for example; while I may feel that is being a bit silly (it's on the back; you don't see it normally), but so what. I don't mind the handle and that's all that matters to me; that others don't like it doesn't affect me.

When people go crazy because I don't like nextbox controller however, weeeelllll, that's just taking it a bit too far IMO.

You can't even read, because I haven't called him that... :? Like I said, fanpersons...

 

What happened to the big white round button in the center?

 

wasn't the controller supposed to be wireless? :?