Weâve covered the special Starfield-branded Xbox controllers before. They were one of the worst-kept secrets of 2023, alongside the Starfield-branded Xbox headset that is already joining them on store shelves. What I did not know until today was how damn cool the controllerâs triggers are.
I mean, I like the controller design itself. Iâm not exactly hyped for Starfield, I can take it or leave it, but the beauty of this pad in particular is that it doesnât really look like a branded controller at all. It just looks like an Xbox controller with a really cool late-70s/early-80s sci-fi theme,like it was something out of The Last Starfighter, and so even if you had no idea what Starfield was, or did and did not care for it, you could still be into this controller.
Anyway! That aesthetic discourse off my chest, I want to talk about the triggers. From leaked product shots we already knew the triggers had a transparent housing, but it was one thing seeing them just sitting around. Itâs another seeing them moving, because as long as we have had vibrating controllersâand itâs been decades nowâI donât know if Iâve ever seen the mechanics of them actually vibrating before while youâve got the finished product in your hand:
ok the coolest thing about the Starfield Xbox controller is transparent triggers. So you can watch them do this⌠pic.twitter.com/IdmNi5k0xE
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) June 13, 2023
Thatâs neat! Not surprising, we all knew roughly how they worked, but itâs still cool seeing it in action like that. Cool and worrying, because seeing how fast and hard those little guys have to work to keep rumbling I have no idea how controllers last as long as they do. Provided, uh, they actually last as long we want them to.
The Xbox Series X/S controller is $80 while the gaming headset is $125
