Over the weekend, some Xbox Elite Series 2 controller owners were left in awe over a feature that has seemingly flown under the radar, as it was highlighted that an RGB function resides behind the Xbox Guide button.
As mentioned by a few users on Reddit, the colours of the light behind the Xbox logo can be changed through Steam on PC. There's a ton of options allowing users to customise their controller in a neat way. It only seems to apply to the Series 2 version of the Elite controller and doesn't work with consoles, but still, it's a cool feature.
Thankfully, one user has provided a walkthrough on how to do this yourself. The downside is that it appears the setting doesn't save, so if the controller dies or you switch it off, you'll have to repeat the process.
To set it up, go to Steam > Settings > Controller > General Controller Settings. Activate Xbox Configuration Support and Xbox Extended Feature Support, select your controller from "Detected Controllers" and click on Preferences.
This was the first we'd heard of this feature, along with half of Reddit by the looks of it. It's a shame it doesn't work on consoles, but maybe it's something that could be implemented in the future. We'll see how popular it proves!
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[source reddit.com, via reddit.com]
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Don't own one but that's cool but also annoying that it can't be done on xbox
The question is why?
Was the multi-colour LED cheaper than the standard in other controllers? was it a feature that got dropped?
I’d love to have this on the standard controller you set the color as a soft blue at night :/
That's kind of funny to sell hardware that has more features than the software and marketing actually show. Next up we'll find it has gyros but they're disabled, lol.
I would love for Microsoft to make this a feature in normal joypads but i don't think they will.
@NEStalgia I remember on a podcast, they talked about what if, Xbox controllers get gyros and better haptics just from a downloadable update lmao.
I saw this pop up in the ambassador discord, a shame that the regular ps4 controller can do rgb as well but the standard xbox controller can't.
@clixbrigidxterx lol, I'm sure tear downs exist and already confirm they're not there but that would be funny if they picked a bunch of hardware they're not using in there!
That's cool. It must be a remnant of a feature they wanted to implement on console, but couldn't get the software implementation done. With the prevalence of cheap RGB LEDs I guess it wouldn't have added much to the manufacturing cost on such an expensive controller.
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