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Xbox 2 to Have Wireless Controllers Standard

Posted by Zonk on from the halo-from-your-bathroom dept.

GamesIndustry.biz has the news that the Xbox 2 console, releasing this fall, will use wireless controllers by default. From the article: "Microsoft will be the first console manufacturer to ship wireless pads as standard with its hardware, but not the first to ship an official wireless controller; Nintendo has already enjoyed significant success with the WaveBird, its wireless pad for the GameCube."

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  1. Brilliant by MarkGriz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who came up with this idea... Energizer or Duracell?

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  2. Battery life by Chonguey · · Score: 3, Funny

    No doubt the Xbox2 controller will be so large it will house its own power generator.

    1. Re:Battery life by ZephyrXero · · Score: 2, Funny

      You're not alone. I love the size of the original Xbox controllers' size...but, I'm not that fond of the button layout and d-pad. I think all consoles should start releasing different sized controllers...wouldn't it be hillarious to buy the Xbox 2 and hear the clerk as you "Do you want to super-size your controllers with that?" ;)

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  3. Re:So now what... by kajoob · · Score: 4, Funny

    You could always go outside and talk to some girls.

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  4. Re:Mod parent up by redJag · · Score: 1, Funny

    ya wtf ppl?

  5. Re:Great news... by Ryan+Stortz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not to mention the rumble feature has been linked to carpel tunnel, but that might just be because kids can play video games for 85 hours a week.

    I can't even play for more than an hour without getting up and doing something, and I'm not exactly going to be on the cover of men's Fitness anytime soon.

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  6. Re:Mod parent up by MBraynard · · Score: 1, Funny
    Oh really? Because my thinking was, and follow me here, no one would dare make a comment on an electrical device without at least a masters degree in electrical engineering. So when I read your comment - at first - without knowing what that abbreviation, my initial question was what school you went to and what research companies you summered for.

    So when I later learned you were not an electrical engineer by way of you defining your abbreviation, I nearly fell out of my chair and my dear friend Fyodor had to retrieve a tall, cold glass of water for me from the kitchen downstairs.

    The question that flooded my head as that cool water flooded my throat was, if you are not an electrical engineer, where did you come across such information and how can you have any certainty of it, given your lack of letters in the field?

    Do tell! I and my associate Fyodor here await with great eagerness your explanation, good sir!