4th April 2023, 8:19 PM
https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-groun...23771.html
But... I'm afraid I have to poke a few holes in this. Firstly, using old CDs is all well and good, but they're still going into a product that to this day still has far too fragile shoulder bumpers and a flimsy USB-C port that isn't secured tightly enough to the board inside. The big problem is these controllers are still designed too badly to stay in use in the long term, and these weaknesses need to be fixed.
Secondly, I no longer use any of MS's rechargeable battery packs. Every last one I own no longer holds a charge. Here's a hot tip if you want to use rechargeables that AREN'T proprietary:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TD6BJ9G/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072S9Z5JQ/
There's no reason why all of the current manufacturers shouldn't just be using this tech. There's enough room in all three of their controllers to work in two AAs and we can just get rechargeable ones that way that we can use across different devices. This is the real ecological solution, because proprietary battery sizes in all our consumer devices are basically a bunch of bombs waiting to go off. Heck, cell phones should have invented singular standards for the whole industry to use a long time ago, because that's one place our standard batteries WON'T fit.
I guess what I'm saying is this is another example of greenwashing, much like all those "plastic cutouts" in game cases they do now. If they really cared, they'd use something that biodegraded and eat the cost they can clearly afford. It's not... nothing, but it's not close to enough or what they could do. I miss paper game boxes, and there's some ways to design those to be as easy to open as modern plastic game cases. (I like the "sliding drawer" design a small number of PC games used.)
But, what will Fox say? This is Microsoft going "woke", whatever they think that means.
But... I'm afraid I have to poke a few holes in this. Firstly, using old CDs is all well and good, but they're still going into a product that to this day still has far too fragile shoulder bumpers and a flimsy USB-C port that isn't secured tightly enough to the board inside. The big problem is these controllers are still designed too badly to stay in use in the long term, and these weaknesses need to be fixed.
Secondly, I no longer use any of MS's rechargeable battery packs. Every last one I own no longer holds a charge. Here's a hot tip if you want to use rechargeables that AREN'T proprietary:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TD6BJ9G/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072S9Z5JQ/
There's no reason why all of the current manufacturers shouldn't just be using this tech. There's enough room in all three of their controllers to work in two AAs and we can just get rechargeable ones that way that we can use across different devices. This is the real ecological solution, because proprietary battery sizes in all our consumer devices are basically a bunch of bombs waiting to go off. Heck, cell phones should have invented singular standards for the whole industry to use a long time ago, because that's one place our standard batteries WON'T fit.
I guess what I'm saying is this is another example of greenwashing, much like all those "plastic cutouts" in game cases they do now. If they really cared, they'd use something that biodegraded and eat the cost they can clearly afford. It's not... nothing, but it's not close to enough or what they could do. I miss paper game boxes, and there's some ways to design those to be as easy to open as modern plastic game cases. (I like the "sliding drawer" design a small number of PC games used.)
But, what will Fox say? This is Microsoft going "woke", whatever they think that means.