According to reports, Xbox‘s marketing team is surveying customers about DualSense and the Series X|S controller. A specific question is looking to gather information on whether if Xbox should integrate adaptive triggers and twin motors to produce a similar haptic feedback experience.
It looks like Microsoft could be designing a new Elite controller, is possible that the results of the survey could influence the engineers and designers decision at team Xbox, and the new controller could integrate a touchpad, haptic feedback, or adaptive triggers.
Microsoft designed the Series X to crush the PlayStation 5 in overall performance, but the price of the console must be much higher than its Japanese counterpart. Certainly, selling a next-gen console at a bargain price means that some compromises were made, Phil Spencer’s team decided to stick with the basics of the previous-gen controller.
The controller shipped with the Series X|S introduced new features like a dedicated share button, a precise D-Pad, and a much appreciated textured grip.
Interestingly, Xbox filed a patent in 2019 in which they register its own design for adaptive triggers, take a look at the images down below:
Such a motor-driven, force-feedback trigger configuration enables the user-perceived state of the trigger to be dynamically adjusted in a variety of ways. For example, the trigger may be driven by the force-feedback motor to adjust a user-perceived resistance of the user-actuatable trigger.
In another example, the trigger may be driven by the force-feedback motor to simulate a hard stop that effectively adjusts a pull length or range of rotation of the trigger.
In another example, the trigger may be driven by the force-feedback motor to assist the trigger in returning to a fully-extended or “unpressed” posture when a user’s finger is removed from the trigger. In another example, the trigger may be driven by the force-feedback motor to vibrate the trigger.
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