hey guys this is Dom from TAC advisor here at e3 2019 and what I have right
here is the new Xbox elite wireless controller series 2 so if you remember
they made an elite controller a couple years back which is a sort of like
premium gamepad from Microsoft it's an official Xbox pad not third-party at all
it's got all the like you know swappable thumb pad pictures and stuff like that
this is the mark 2 version it actually has a lot of upgrades to it sort of
packed right through the whole thing which is really really cool
so if we get down to what we've got the cool thing you look at it's going to
look basically the same as what you're used to
there's little things you'll notice the sort of textured grip and now wraps
right around to the front of the gamepad so you get that across the whole of your
hand a little touches like there's now texturing on the back of the triggers
here you have got these new light starts with profile settings we'll get into
that another light little design touches the back paddles here just sit a little
bit tighter against the controller the zest of a gap here and they take a
little bit more pressure to go ignore the velcro here sorry that's part of why
the display you know we've got here so running through like there's just like
little touches all over so we've got now an extra setting for the hairpin
triggers so there's another new setting as a lot of a button that basically is
an extra level of tension so if I swap these two the two extremes but basically
this one is at the wedding so I can depress that all the way and then on the
tightest setting that's all you get before it triggers so like that's a wild
difference and that's a really tight really responsive trigger button which
is great and then yeah like I said profiles here so there's now profile
switch this isn't hooked up to anything so it won't work but normally if you
push that button it'll cycle through the lights so one light for profile one to
light so profile - etc you get the idea semi as you can save different settings
and configurations in terms of what the buttons do you get some more options in
the app as well now so you can set some sort of sort of
console level commands to certain button configurations you can also do like a
shift settings you can set say one of the paddles to basically be a shift key
so if you hold that down and then press a it does something different to just
pressing a on its own what else we've got little things we get these we've now
got adjustable tension on the thumbsticks
if you look closely you'll see this little cross there it's a kind of
screwdriver like set up so it comes with a an adjustment tool which you can get
in and then you get three different tension settings on the thumbsticks
as you'd expect you get a choice of different thumb sticks choice of D pads
you've got this sort of taking one you've got more classic d-pad option in
the box as well charging is now USB C which is all his welcome a lot more USB
see in the world and you get a forty hour battery life which is pretty
phenomenal actually that's kind of what you get but like the switch pro
controller but I've been really rare to get 40 hours on Xbox and PlayStation
pads and and actually on the charging front as well there's now a little
charging dot that sits inside the carry case and then you can kind of pass the
cable through so you can actually charge it while it's in the case without having
to take it all out with Apple to get it risk losing bits and pieces yeah so this
is it I mean it's stuff there's no one big like stand out feature that's kind
of uh here's the new thing in the wireless - it's just like this is
there's improvements all over the place every little bit about this has been
refined improved upgraded it feels really really nice you know when the
elite first came out it was one of the best controllers on the market it's made
being overtaken a little bit by some of the competition from people like scuff
so it's nice to see Microsoft come back with this and really say no again we are
making the best controller on the market maybe this is really really up there so
yeah it's not out yet it's gonna be out in November in the US and I believe the
rest of the world us pricing it can be 179 dollars the previous generation was
150 so there is a little price hike but not a lot especially considering
especially with the charging feature like the charging dock coming at it
you're getting a lot of extra bang for your buck really yeah we don't know what
pricing for the rest of the world but yeah
I'm really good testing this out more thoroughly I've had a little play around
here at e3 but not anything too intense but I am excited to get one of these in
the office to play around properly thanks I like to subscribe and stay
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