By Jon Porter
It seemed like such a good idea at the time. After all, wasn’t the GameCube a modern design classic, an example to the rest of the industry that you didn’t have to make a gaming machine look like a slightly edgy DVD player to have it sell well?
To celebrate the Xbox Design Lab finally making its way to the UK I had been given a code to make one controller of my choice, and I was in the process of making a complete hash of it.
Xbox Design Lab is a Microsoft service that allows you to customize your own Xbox One controller. As well as adding optional extras like a rubberized grip and metallic D-pads and triggers, you can also completely change the color of all of the controller’s key components.
An inspired choice
Rather than try and forge my own design path, I decided to keep it safe and stick to imitating a classic controller design.
The only problem was that, when you think about it, most of the controllers out there have a fairly boring color scheme. The PS2? A black controller with grey and black buttons. The SNES? Colorful button, but still a grey …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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