As a part of World Accessibility Consciousness Day, Microsoft announced the modular $300 Proteus Controller, a Designed for Xbox controller created by peripherals firm ByoWave. The controller comes as a package with a number of “snap and play” elements that may be configured to suit disabled avid gamers’ wants.
The package comes with a variety of items that may be related in numerous configurations, with ByoWave’s store page claiming over 100 million variations may be achieved on the controller. Every package comes with two Energy Cubes–the constructing blocks of a controller that every home a battery and permit for Bluetooth connectivity–and two Analog Cubes, which give the left and proper analog sticks.
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The controller is designed to work out of the field with the Xbox Collection X|S, Xbox One, and Home windows 10 and 11. The Proteus is predicted to begin delivery in Fall 2024, and is retailing for $300, although ByoWave is providing a reduction to $255 for a restricted variety of preorders.
In the identical weblog put up for World Accessibility Consciousness Day, Microsoft additionally introduced it might be releasing an firmware replace for its Adaptive Controller so as to add assist for extra accessibility peripherals. “Every port now helps as much as 12 buttons, a second stick, and a hat swap,” Xbox says of the replace, which can begin rolling out to Xbox Insiders quickly, with a common launch over the following few months.