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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: JustinP on August 20, 2008, 06:34:34 PM

Title: new 360 controller with improved d-pad
Post by: JustinP on August 20, 2008, 06:34:34 PM
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/54286
Title: Re: new 360 controller with improved d-pad
Post by: drew on August 20, 2008, 06:37:46 PM
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Update: Microsoft has confirmed to Shacknews that there are indeed no plans to bring the "optimized" D-Pad to North America in any form.

why the fuck not.
Title: Re: new 360 controller with improved d-pad
Post by: WrikaWrek on August 20, 2008, 06:42:20 PM
Maybe i'll get it.

Not that the D pad matters much, only use it in Pro Evo and..fighting games i guess? But hey, i'll get to buy Pro Evo on the 360 again.
Title: Re: new 360 controller with improved d-pad
Post by: huckleberry on August 20, 2008, 06:46:26 PM
Well here is to hoping the MS is just going to use the eventual popularity of this new controller to continue production and expand it into the US.  Either that or quietly replace the current controllers with the news ones as they sell through.
Title: Re: new 360 controller with improved d-pad
Post by: CajoleJuice on August 20, 2008, 06:54:14 PM
THIS SHIT BETTER COME TO AMERICA
Title: Re: new 360 controller with improved d-pad
Post by: demi on August 20, 2008, 06:55:09 PM
I heard there's websites you can order these online from

And you can buy them overseas

Online
Title: Re: new 360 controller with improved d-pad
Post by: WrikaWrek on August 20, 2008, 07:09:54 PM
Quote from: ParticleReality on August 20, 2008, 07:06:38 PM
It looks exactly the fucking same.

Vomit Green + new d pad.

Those are the differences.
Title: Re: new 360 controller with improved d-pad
Post by: Bildi on August 20, 2008, 07:12:17 PM
Buy... online?  I dunno, it sounds risky. What if someone finds out where I live? :omg

And holy fuck that colour is almost as fugly as the Halo 360.  Actually, I think it's worse.
Title: Re: new 360 controller with improved d-pad
Post by: Snuflupagulus on August 20, 2008, 07:33:33 PM
Quote from: Bildi on August 20, 2008, 07:12:17 PM
Buy... online?  I dunno, it sounds risky. What if someone finds out where I live? :omg

And holy fuck that colour is almost as fugly as the Halo 360.  Actually, I think it's worse.
(http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll15/Snuflupagulus/MonKang.jpg)

marsupial mansion
Title: Re: new 360 controller with improved d-pad
Post by: drew on August 20, 2008, 07:51:41 PM
(http://www.shacknews.com/images/image-o-matic.x?/images/sshots/Screenshot/10561/10561_48ac2c15b14f2.jpg)

 :-X :yuck

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Quote from: demi on August 20, 2008, 06:55:09 PM
I heard there's websites you can order these online from

And you can buy them overseas

Online

effort smh
Title: Re: new 360 controller with improved d-pad
Post by: demi on August 20, 2008, 07:52:57 PM
Don't you smh me, I am the grand master of effortless effort
Title: Re: new 360 controller with improved d-pad
Post by: MrSingh on August 20, 2008, 07:53:13 PM
EB Japan had a "d-pad improvement party" a few months ago. It was awesome.
Title: Re: new 360 controller with improved d-pad
Post by: pilonv1 on August 20, 2008, 07:59:49 PM
dpad looks no different...
Title: Re: new 360 controller with improved d-pad
Post by: laesperanzapaz on August 20, 2008, 08:05:25 PM
thats...the improved dpad?

meet the new dpad, same as the old dpad.

SMH
Title: Re: new 360 controller with improved d-pad
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on August 20, 2008, 08:20:18 PM
Quote from: Nadal on August 20, 2008, 06:37:46 PM
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Update: Microsoft has confirmed to Shacknews that there are indeed no plans to bring the "optimized" D-Pad to North America in any form.

why the fuck not.
They said the same thing about the Controller S. It'll happen.  :-*
Title: Re: new 360 controller with improved d-pad
Post by: Bildi on August 20, 2008, 08:31:36 PM
Since it seems the d-pad is still sitting a mile away from the circuit board, I'd hazard a guess that there's still about half an inch of stupid ideas in between your thumb and the contacts.