New Microsoft controller – so-called developing for mobile games

Microsoft has developed prototypes for mobile game controllers.

Playing more demanding games on smartphones and tablets proves problematic for various reasons. In addition to the hardware limitations, the controller is particularly troublesome. But Microsoft is currently studying, as part of the xCloud project, a solution to these obstacles in mobile gaming.

While Project xCloud should make it acceptable to play console-quality games on smartphones and tablets, Microsoft is steering WindowsCentral with the development of specific mobile controllers, apparently to Nintendo switch solutions and other gaming consoles. portable. The 2014 research papers, which Microsoft reportedly reported from the sinking, show prototypes of a controller whose size can be adapted flexibly.

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The official document from the Microsoft Research Department states:

"[…] many types of games are less suitable for mobile devices. Despite systems like AdaptControl […] Touch emulators of traditional game controls such as dads, buttons and joysticks often do not feel satisfying. […] Some cheaper products allow the connection of a smartphone with a modified portable game controller. […] However, the tightness of these additional components makes them bulky and inflexible. "

Judging by the images of Microsoft's prototypes, the manufacturer apparently relies on some kind of sliding mechanism in which the two halves of the controller can be separated. The smartphone or tablet is then placed in the center and almost stuck in the controller.

Since prototypes are so far only models of the 3D printer, the time and the moment when such a controller actually creates the trade are totally known. However, the fact that Microsoft can in the foreseeable future publish a corresponding hardware solution seems rather in light of the efforts of the manufacturer in the framework of the project xCloud.

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