Controllers, controllers, controllers.
And I understand that not everybody is a controller collector.
You just want one or maybe two controllers, and that's fine.
Xbox has plenty of controllers to choose from.
However, if you wanted to customize your own controller,
officially customize your own controller or can you do that?
Yeah, you can.
Let's take a look at it.
Hey, folks, Sony hands here.
The Xbox master trainer for the United States on Expert Zone
and yes, Design Labs is back open
Actually, it's been open for a little over a year now.
And I just wanted to highlight what you can do with Design Labs,
because I feel like some critics have said,
oh, you just changed a few colors here and there and that's it.
That's all you got.
That's it.
It's really not. There's a lot more to it.
And so we're going to do a step by step we're going to create a controller.
And then at the end of the video, we're going to unbox that controller.
I'm going to take a few days because I have to wait for it to get shipped here.
That's how that works.
Nevertheless, in a few days, we're going to unbox that here
so we can take a look at what an official design labs controller looks like.
All right.
So here we are at the Xbox Design Labs website.
You can go ahead and search for yourself on being.
We'll put the link in the description down below as well.
To make it easier for you folks.
But essentially, you can customize almost anything that you see on here.
Now, what I want to do is pay a little bit of homage to the surface.
And we've got a surface laptop studio
right here in the studio, pun intended.
And we're going to kind of find some inspiration from it.
So right out of the gate, we have the Xbox controller that is just
white on white on white And we're going to give it a little bit of splash of color.
Now you have the standard options or the rubberized side grip option.
So standard is pretty much what it says, it's standard.
You're just going to change the color of the front panel,
whereas the rubberized side grips, you can change the front panel color,
but it's also going to add rubberized side grips
on the side of the controller.
If you've never played with side grips or rear grips,
they make a huge amount of difference.
The elite controllers have it.
Some of these tech controllers have it as well, too.
I prefer the rubberized grips to be on the back versus on the side.
So this design lab allows me to do that.
So let's go back and we're going to go ahead and choose just standard
but we're going to use the ash gray color.
Now, we don't have a magnesium gray color.
The closest that we have is ash gray.
So you can have the bear with me on that.
But also in the back This is where the battery being is.
We can change that.
To add the rubberized grips, that does cost a little bit more.
But if you do want that, that's all that's what customization is all about.
So we're going to add rubberized back grips
and we're going to keep the same color that's on the front.
All right.
So when you look at the front
and back, it's going to it's going to have pretty much the same kind of color,
because if you look at the front and back of the Surface,
it has the same color all around Next up for the bumpers.
The bumpers are those little buttons above the triggers.
So with the bumpers, we are going to actually choose Ash Gray again.
Now, you can choose whatever you want.
You can go big and have a huge pop with red or
if you like, or choose this mineral blue ash that's kind of cool because we did
we did have a mineral blue kind of surface touch cover before.
It didn't. We didn't.
I don't know who I'm talking to.
In rehearsal.
I never chose Mineral Blue until now, so I'm kind of excited.
We'll see how it goes.
Next up, though, are going to be the triggers.
These are going to be the things that you pull to shoot people or you open doors
with or what have you, depending on what kind of game that you're playing.
You do have the ability to just once again change the color
or if you want to be fancy, you can for an extra
three $99, you can change it to metallic.
So here is metallic pink because why not?
And we're not going to choose metallic pink for this controller.
We are, however, going to choose
the metallic pewter silver
Now, the D-pad, that's your cross on your controller.
Same kind of concept.
We also have the ability to switch it up to metallic if you wanted to, which we do.
So we're going to change that over to once again, pewter, silver.
And then with the thumbsticks, I feel like I want
a tiny bit of pop with Xbox.
So what we could do,
I don't know if I'm going to keep the mineral blue for the bumpers.
I'll tell you that right now because I really do want to add velocity
green to just scream Xbox.
Surface, if you get my drift.
But I don't particularly like
the velocity green with that mineral blue.
I like the mineral blue. I just
maybe for a different controller.
A different controller.
We can have those colors.
But for this one, not so much.
So let's
go ahead and scroll back up to Bumpers and let's see what happens when we do
Velocity Green with the bumpers and see what it looks like.
Oh, oh, okay.
I see what you're putting down now for those keen
eyed controller collectors, if you will.
You might look at this and say, Tony, that kind of looks like
an existing controller that you can just buy in retail.
I think you're talking about this guy now.
I don't particularly remember what this one is called, so
I'll put it down in post right about here.
Did that work?
Then, we're going to go to the ABXY,
and we have a bunch of different colors to choose from for that.
So you have black on white, gray on black.
I particularly like the gray on white again
because we're doing an image the surface.
So it's, it's somewhat understated.
It's not about poof,
and then you do have the option to change up the color scheme of the view
menu share button.
Some people call them B select start share button.
The official nomenclature is view menu share.
And similarly you have black on white
gray, black on gray where once again we're going to choose gray on white.
We want that color scheme to match what's on the ABXY buttons.
And then finally, here's where you can actually engrave something.
Yeah, you can engrave up to 16 characters.
It can be your gamertag.
You can put a tiny little message
for the purposes of this, we're actually going to go ahead and
call it
the expert zone controller because why not?
In a few days we will receive this controller
in the mail and we're going to unbox that here on this finish.
So don't go anywhere because we're going to box.
All right.
So we were actually expecting this to arrive in four weeks after
we made the initial order, but it only took two weeks.
So that's really good. That's really awesome.
Let's go ahead and open this bad boy up.
I'm excited.
Oh, okay.
So the outside box does
definitely have a unique kind of
we find the outside box does have a unique kind of air to a unique kind
of feel to it that you're not going to get have your standard retail boxes.
But it does still have some standard retail practices, including
letting you know what kind of device this controller will work with.
And it tells you what's inside, including to double AA battery.
So just like a retail box, you're going to get batteries
included with your design labs controller.
There are any other Easter eggs on this thing?
I don't think so.
But it says right here made with Xbox Design Labs.
That's awesome.
We did it, you and me, we did it together.
Kind of. You should feel included. Thank you.
Oh, my God.
All right.
So if you folks remember, we wanted the controller to have an image
have a little tag, you know, the tilt of the hat to Xbox,
but as well as surface, because we love the surface device here at the studios
and this definitely screams out Xbox and Surface.
Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, the Xbox Surface controller,
the surface Xbox controller, what are we calling this?
We're going to go ahead and call this
Tony's work controller because I'm not good at coming up with names right now.
It just screams out Xbox and Surface I mean, right out of the gate,
you've got the double analog sticks that have that Xbox screen
just like the bumpers.
Do you also have that reflective pseudo-reflective
metallic D-pad to kind of remind you
about the reflective surfaces of the surface
when it comes to the Microsoft logo on the backside of the surfaces?
Just like just like just like we have here.
Look at that.
Look how reflective that that Microsoft logo is
yeah.
And then, of course, this is a latest gen controller.
So you're going to get
the new share button, but you still have some of
the original connections like a 3.5 millimeters headphone jack
connection for some of the other headphones,
but also some like the chat pads and some of the other controllers
that are out there in the market.
And third party world.
But, oh, I completely forgot the script.
I asked for grip.
Well, I mean, I paid for grip, and I got grip.
I totally forgot. I got grip. Grip makes all the difference.
I explain it to you.
I'm going to tell you once again, just iterate once again.
Grip makes all the difference. I love the grip.
Oh, it feels so good.
I'm going to I'm going to shoot so many people digitally in games.
Seriously, though, when it comes to a standard controller
that you would get from a store and the design labs
controller that you get and you have to wait a few weeks to get it is so worth it
the parameters that it needs that you expect
out of an Xbox controller, this hits all of them.
So I'm just super impressed.
I'm super happy with it and best believe when we do our streaming here on YouTube
and over on Twitch,
I'm going to be using this for, for, for those streams because why not?
I mean, this says right there!
Says right there, ExpertZone.
This is an ExpertZone controller.
So I'm going to user on EZEncore and the ExpertZone YouTube channel.
And so make sure you are following and subscribing here on YouTube
and you follow us over there on Twitch so you can see me do that
with this controller.
But if there are any other questions
around the design labs, the controllers or
anything else that comes in the box, like I said, two batteries.
Let us know in the comments section down below.
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