The Wireless Bluetooth Ultimate Controller: Getting a Gyroscope in a Keyboard, from Steam to the Nintendo Switch and Windows PCs

A good old fashioned mechanical keyboard has a lot to offer. If you are looking for a good entry-level keyboard, Epomaker has a great model that is on sale at Amazon for $71.99 and comes with your choice of linear.

The Epomaker TH80 Pro comes with a larger battery and is a slightly improved version of one of our favorite wireless models.

Second, while 8BitDo’s Ultimate Bluetooth Controller sadly doesn’t come with that four-position switch, it does come with Gulikit Hall effect sensor joysticks that should hopefully eliminate stick drift — at a time when both Sony and Microsoft are using the same exact drift-prone joysticks.

Unlike some of 8BitDo’s controllers, the wireless Bluetooth Ultimate is compatible with the Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck, and Windows PCs. Its magnetic Hall effect sticks are float-resistant, unlike anything you might experience with Nintendo’s Joy-Con controllers. They also have a number of pro- grade software features like button mapping and custom profiles, both of which can be added to the companion app. It has a charging dock that can be used to charge the controller when it isn’t in use, making it the best Nintendo Switch controller on the market.

It could be four years before the $70 pad arrives with all of the best pieces of Sony, Valve, and 8BitDo.

Here is hoping! It’s the thing I’m most excited about because it seriously does add a new dimension to some of Sony’s games, which just aren’t the same when you take it away.

Even if the controllers have linear actuators, they don’t have the impact because they don’t feature eccentric spinning weights. The Nintendo Switch and Steam Controller were both iffy.

But I’m also really hoping Microsoft puts a gyroscope in this thing, not just an accelerometer, so we can have the same gyro aiming revolution I’m experiencing on my Steam Deck and with Zelda on Switch. It is great for aiming bows.

It’s the reason Sebile is such a big deal. It was supposed to be Microsoft’s first universal wireless controller and it would be able to controlling xbox across console, mobile, PC and cloud.

The controller can do that since it connects directly to the cloud, documents show. The controller on the Stadia was connected to the home wi-fi, so I could play a game on my phone, PC and TV at the same time. In the year 2019, I wrote about Stadia and two other things.

I played the game on a phone before walking down the hall to grab a snack while I fired up a session with the Stadia controller, swapped to a desktop with a mouse and keyboard and resumed the game after I needed better aim for a boss fight.

The slide out switch on the back of many of 8Bit Do’s controllers allows you to swap between Wii U, Nintendo Direct, and other Nintendo products over the Internet one single click. That sounds like it could happen with an app from Microsoft.

Microsoft Xbox Lets You Sleep, or Does Microsoft Xbox Leak Gamepad See a Steam-Sony Controller Have an Idea from Stadia, Steam and Sony?

(In an earlier version of this story, I also credited 8BitDo with making a rechargeable battery that can fit in the AA pocket, but Xbox has been selling an optional aftermarket one for a while. Maybe it’ll just be bundled now.)

Lift-to-wake presence detection is a big deal because it can reduce battery life. Former Polygon editor-in-chief (and current publisher) Chris Grant tells me Xbox One controllers seemed to last forever if you had a Microsoft Kinect set up — since the camera handled that presence detection role.

It’s not the only new controller that was in discussions, with another version codenamed “Igraine,” a new Elite controller dubbed “Actium,” and a new luxury controller dubbed “Zarasai.”

The last two have not yet achieved internal funding, and the Microsoft documents indicate that theSebile full product vision is not currently approved.

Source: Microsoft’s new Xbox controller borrows great ideas from Stadia, Steam, and Sony

Bonnie or Bonnie Pro: Is it an interchangeable stick or stick topper for a Sebile-Igraine battery?

By the way, Sebile and Igraine would supposedly ship with a pack-in accessory of some sort called “Bonnie” or “Bonnie Pro.” Is that the name for the battery? Someone has a case. An interchangeable stick or stick topper? Your guess is as good as ours.