The Xbox Series X Is Getting A New Pulse Red Controller

Very slick looking controller. MS is killing it with the designs, love it!

Red isn't my favourite colour but I'll make an exception for that controller. Looks real nice. Just have nowhere to put it in my small flat.

Slick looking controller right there, gonna make it my first Series X/S controller for my PC.

I bought the Shock Blue when it was on sale a couple of months ago, but screw it I want this one too!

Why white on the back? Ruins it

I'd prefer it if it were all red but, even with the white, that is one sexy controller.

I’ll buy another one when they inevitably update with adaptive triggers, haptic feedback, and motion control.

The all red Xbox One pad looks way better.

Love the red and white

This is what I was waiting for. I love red

Please Microsoft do a a green one.

I’m surprised they haven’t done green. I mean it’s the main colour associated with Xbox

I have the shock blue one as a second controller for all the fighting games.
I really dig it.
This red is not bad, either

I’ve bought new faceplates off of Amazon recently, I have a purple controller now.

Cost in the region of £15 and are very easy to fit. Not as nice a red as the official one above, but still quite nice.

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08PD16ZP3/

Agree the back should be red

Still waiting on some proper special editions, hopefully one with rubber grips.

Avoiding getting more controllers like the plague...don't need more. In a year or so i might get a design lab one if the get some new features in the standard models. If not then im using what i got till it breaks...got extended warranty and i think controllers are covered?

I already have a red Xbox One controller that looks like this, it's really nice looking.

@WesEds
Absolutely! It's a lovely shade of red though but i really would like a green one.

Looks nice and very Mario red.
Are we getting Mario Odyssey, 4K 60fps etc.

@Grot But this one is all the colors of KFC. It will match my chicken bucket perfectly.

@Dezzy70 Yes, and in exchange Microsoft is giving Nintendo the Halo franchise. The whole thing. My uncle at Nintendo who has lunch with Steve Ballmer’s former secretary’s dog told me.

@Kefka2589 🍗🍗🍗

@Grot
Thanks for the inside tip off.
Though say one Halo game for Mario Odyssey would be a good deal.

@Dezzy70 I know it’s a huge meme at this point but in all seriousness that would be awesome.

More on topic, I’d love an Xbox controller with Nintendo’s button layout. After 30 years of primarily Nintendo gaming, and an aging brain that can’t keep up, I always always always hit B when I mean to hit A on Xbox. I even used Japanese PlayStation consoles to have accept/cancel in the positions I’m used to.

@Grot
I prefer the Xbox button layout as it is the same as Sony. When playing on the Switch with a pro controller it drives me nuts with the buttons being different.
Even Sony in Japan have gone the Western way for PS5.

Yeah, Nintendo is the last man standing on that front, but it’s been that way since the SNES. Old habits die hard.

I modified an Xbox One controller to swap the buttons, kind of a pain due to the way they make the buttons. Having the ability to remap everything is awesome, love my Xbox.

I’ve been playing my Xbox so much recently that I accidentally hit square when prompted to press x on my PS5 today 😅

These are really cool colors. It's weird though. For Nintendo i like my bright colors. For ps4 i had a blue that looked a lot like the shock blue shade. I like the white and black ps5 controller. But for series of X, the matte stealth black is just so darned sleek and sexy it's hard to really want anything else. It's just so.... Sleek. Arguably it needed monochrome button caps to be a truly blacked out race car, but i much prefer the colored caps for memory association (miss that on ps5.)

@everynowandben lol, i know, why do "cross" and x have to look the same?

@Reverandjames Because if it were black could be confused as a Virtual Boy accessory.

Edit: also, Nintendos are red. PlayStations are blue. Xbox controllers should be purchasable in green. Why can't you?

@Dezzy70 it's a weird history. Nintendo is really the "right" layout since the whole controller design is really theirs to begin with. Sony copied them correctly in Japan and then inexplicably reversed it in the west for some convoluted reason that x means cancel here. Sega did what Nintendont because Sega and reversed the buttons on Dreamcast. And Microsoft just copied Sega and or PlayStation. Probably because of that buyout attempt where awakawa and Lincoln laughed at them for an hour.

It drives Phil crazy too. I remember the story where he was playing Lucky's tale at the switch both and kept dying until he realizing he was interesting the buttons and jabbed that their buttons are mapped wrong.

Sony reversed it in Japan with no ps5 because a giant middle finger aimed at Tokyo is their new corporate logo.

Don’t like the white underneath

Another Not a fan of the white back on this or shock blue. For this reason I went white for my additional controller and it has become the default choice, looks sleek.

Must say I love my shock blue, using it in of a lot and they are more comfortable, and more practical with the non-slip areas.
Don't need a red one, & I'd have bought blue anyway