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Shadow20002
10-25-2005, 06:33 PM
Check it, it's real.
Shadow20002
10-25-2005, 06:35 PM
This is the packaging for the Windows version of the controller.
StudioAlex
10-25-2005, 06:35 PM
Cool. How do you like it?
Shadow20002
10-25-2005, 06:36 PM
The window CD installation.
swivel
10-25-2005, 07:57 PM
Thank god. Windows has needed a standardized controller for way too long. Like 12 years.

This should make ports so much easier, in both directions, and increase the goodness of gaming for everyone.

Thank you Microsoft. And so-long entire divisions of other PC controller companies.
Jackyboy
10-25-2005, 08:24 PM
im getting one this weekend
LeoBreaker
10-25-2005, 08:50 PM
woot i just bought one too. its my little piece of heaven. :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v319/LeoBreaker/Image012.jpg
Jackyboy
10-25-2005, 08:52 PM
woot i just bought one too. its my little piece of heaven. :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v319/LeoBreaker/Image012.jpg
does it replace a computer mouse?
LeoBreaker
10-25-2005, 09:08 PM
sadly no, it doesn't even give you software to configure the buttons for games. now i will have to configure cs source the hard way :( but it is really comfortable

*edit* just found out that you can use your xbox headsets for the pc too :)
icarusfountain
10-25-2005, 11:23 PM
Where are you guys finding these at?
LeoBreaker
10-26-2005, 08:57 AM
best buy
swivel
10-26-2005, 09:29 AM
Great news about the headset. Thanks for that bit.

Can't wait to get one for playing PES 5 on my PC. My team (East London) is 3-0 to start the season. Very hard to score goals this year round.
Jackyboy
10-26-2005, 06:58 PM
i went to best buy and target today, but they didnt know what i was talking about
ShadedNine
10-26-2005, 07:10 PM
Haven't seen them here either. No matter though, i've always been dissapointed by gamepads for the PC, not because of the design and such, but because the games don't often handle them very well (non-analog keys don't translate to an analog controller very well).
icarusfountain
10-26-2005, 07:56 PM
I'm looking for one just to make sure I can get a second controller for my 360 when it arrives.
swivel
10-27-2005, 06:21 AM
Haven't seen them here either. No matter though, i've always been dissapointed by gamepads for the PC, not because of the design and such, but because the games don't often handle them very well (non-analog keys don't translate to an analog controller very well).

It's more the controllers than the games. I've been using my XBox and PS2 controllers on the PC for years now, and every game I fire up has support for analog controls. All the EA games, PES, X-2, etc.

And dozens of analog PC controllers are on the market, but you have to search for them and pay the price. Adapters for console controllers are the way to go.
Brevity
10-27-2005, 07:30 AM
To bad they dont have the wireless one for windows.
Jackyboy
10-27-2005, 06:37 PM
To bad they dont have the wireless one for windows.
yeah, thats one reason that makes me not want to get it
mattgame
10-27-2005, 07:08 PM
If my life wasn't one big curse I would have one too.
swivel
10-27-2005, 09:12 PM
Who playes on their PC more than three feet from the screen?
LeoBreaker
10-27-2005, 09:33 PM
Who playes on their PC more than three feet from the screen?

well, i have an s-video cord hooked up to my tv so that i can sit on my couch (which is about 10 fee away from my pc) and play some roms. so to answer your question, me :)
Whisper
10-31-2005, 01:42 PM
That sucks that the wireless one does not work with the PC. That pisses me off as my gamepad, which I only just bought off ebay (new) a few weeks ago, is already ****ing up. This was my backup plan. :(