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Two new 360 pads?

CVG learns two new versions of the Xbox 360 controller are doing the developer rounds

Speaking this afternoon to CVG, Konami's PES producer Shingo 'Seabass' Takatsuka has revealed he's currently in possession of two new Xbox 360 controllers and is playing around with them at the PES HQ.

Microsoft sent Seabass the two controllers to allow him to test re-mapped button configurations for PES, the best footy game in town, presumably to make the game as playable on an Xbox 360 pad as it is on the PS2.

It's no secret that the best pad to play Pro Evolution Soccer on is Sony's classic Dual Shock.

This also ties in nicely to previous reports that Microsoft has a unique FPS pad in testing for Xbox 360 too.

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Published: 1184 days 13 hours ago | News | Xbox 360

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shotty - 1184 days 16 hours ago

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I hope they bring a 360 version of the original duke controller.

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power of Green - 1184 days 14 hours ago

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I hope it's more durrable like the Xbox1 pad the 360 pads a joke! the joy stick where out way to fast 3 times as quik as the Xbox1. And i don't play that much mabe 1-2 hours a day sometimes only playing 3 days a week.

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shotty - 1184 days 14 hours ago

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I play way more than that and my joysticks are fine. If anything the controller is now smooth where the controller meets my palms.

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THELANDSOFSAND - 1184 days 4 hours ago

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ive played the sh1t out of my 2 pads and they are perfect. one got thrown out of a window as well!

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power of Green - 1184 days 14 hours ago

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The design of the 360 pad is perfect and the best i'v ever picked up it's real comfortable and the Analoge on all the buttons are top-notch. You must admit the Xbox1 pads were built like an tank, look i got an old Xbox pad and last night i was thinking why; after palying the sh*t out of it for years is the joysticks tighter than the 360's.

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haloalldaylo - 1184 days 12 hours ago

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4 - just give me something witha better D-pad.

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sparco - 1184 days 12 hours ago

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5 - Hmmm..

I do remember Microsoft saying a while back now that they will be releasing new controllers in the future with a much more accurate analog. The movement of the analog stick will be a lot smoother and therefore more precise. Ill probably get one for the hell of it.

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calderra - 1184 days 8 hours ago

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I hate the Dual Shock. It's too small, and oddly made so my hands tire quickly and cramp. With the 360 (and Xbox), I can play an all-nighter with none of those issues. The worst part of the DualShock are those nobby side things that poke into your palms- those really do the most damage, forcing my hands into odd positions.

^See? I have an opinion, too. Personally, I say bring on new controllers. I think the 360 controller is the best console controller ever made, and if you read the above, you know why. It just works for my hands.

But I know other people might not have the same experience, and if a new controller would work better for them, why not?

And the Xbox controllers really were tanks- my Duke that I got in 2001 still hasn't ever had a single problem. Well, I did spill Coke on it and had to clean the buttons. Once. But that's been it. And it went to weekly LAN parties, tons of all-nighters, got slung around in backpacks and trunks... a true workhorse.

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kmis87 - 1184 days 5 hours ago

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I saw that this one company was working on a controller that incorporated a mouse ball instead of the left analog stick. This would be awesome for FPS, and patches so that the controller would work with certain games could be distribute online. I'd like to see how a controller like that would turn out.

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DC RID3R - 1184 days 4 hours ago

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8 - for fps's the 360 pad is nigh on.........

perfect. but for the more traditional games i.e xbox live arcade games, football, and platform games in general, MS need to clibrate the actual d-pad a tad smoother.
@kmis87 - yeh bro, a mouse ball would be SIK, then, with live anywhere, pc gamers wouldn,t have so much of an advantage!!!!

I LOVE SONY

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The Milkman - 1184 days 4 hours ago

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I like the Xbox 360 controller more than its previous one. But if they want to throw in some for certain kinds of games sounds like a great idea to me.

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0ldb0y - 1183 days 21 hours ago

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Who throws controllers out the window??? Seriously, who does that? I've thrown mine on the floor, against the wall, and on the bed (all out of frustration when losing to my little brother in Fight Night Round 3). But out the window? Unheard of.

As for the new FPS controller, I've seen a good design used before successfuly in the genre. It amounts to a combination of relic devices, which the ancients referred to as "keyboard" and "mouse."

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