Xbox's New 'Remix Special Edition' Controller Is Made Using Reclaimed Materials

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This is some strange mixed message marketing. I like the recycled product's aspect and the inclusion of the rechargeable battery pack. But the price tag is way off. Who is gonna pay for this when a standard controller is 20$ cheaper?

If it's recycled old junk why is it so expensive? It does include the battery pack tho so that's nice. I prefer rechargeable AAs.

As per usual, the front is cool and the back not matching is infuriating.

Xbox needs to chill with its controller stuff.

It’s cool but it’s more expensive than a design lab and it’s supposed to be for “earth day”.

@FatalBubbles
They are complimentary colors, I like the choice of colors

I don't need the battery pack (already using eneloops). Wish they'd offer one without it, then I would totally get one.

For that price, I'd rather get a global warming controller if it's cheaper lol.

very tempted cause i love the colors. but would i be helping the environment if i own 3 other series controllers?

Don’t know why but I presumed it would be cheaper if it’s using materials they already own.

Surely in this day and age this should just be the norm using materials that they have and won’t use .

Selling it at a higher price is just predatory to people who want to go green.

Love my Xbox but which they would use some of the ps5 dual sense features the adaptive triggers and vibration on that is amazing !

Especially on single player games I was playing the last of us and it was raining and the controller was subtly vibrating with the rain I went into a house and it stopped went back outside and it started thought my controller was broken until I realised it was the rain ☔️.

@Krysus In the UK the standard controller is £55, and the recharging pack is £20 (RRP) so £75 for this means there's no mark up, and I'd rather have this than a standard colour and it also has the rubber side grips.

Compared to the £60 special editions I think that this pricing in in line with the rest of the range.

If I can get it discounted like I did the Forza and anniversary ones I will pick it up as it’s a lovely one.

@PhileasFragg you are right I hadn’t joined the dots in my head either. It’s not a bad deal really. I think they should all come with the battery packs.

Save the planet! Buy more disposable (recycled) plastic STUFF!!

@Krysus The kind of people that seem to enjoy paying more for everything to "save the planet." That's a whole macro-economy of its own now. "Pay more to buy righteousness" is up there with "Press X to pay respects."

@Meehanuk_1987 A lot of that stuff annoys me actually. When I go outside in the rain, I don't feel my hands vibrating, I just feel wet, cold, and angry. Why do video games think "vibrating hands" = "wet, cold and angry"?

@FatalBubbles you beat me to it. Once again, awful front and stupid back. They do not and will not learn.

This is MS keeping Pace with Apple that is close to carbon free on their hardware and have been using recycled materials for MacBooks and others for a long while. Apple will reach its carbon neutral footprint before MS, so MS is getting in the game so to speak and i ain’t saying it’s a bad thing. But again they are following and not leading, something they tend to do way to much.

I admire the intent, but as others pointed out they've shot themselves in the foot by making it more expensive. Even if it was more expensive to produce with this new method, you'd hope that MS believes in its values enough to cut costs down somehow.

Time and time again, studies have shown that people 1) are very concerned about climate change and 2) will happily buy a eco-friendly product if it's the same price or cheaper --- but the vast majority draw the line at paying more.

So they get to reuse parts in some way and it ends up costing more? LOL

was sort of tempted but i like the starfield one more. Plus ive been really debating getting myself a duke

But does it have a gyro?

@Meehanuk_1987 @mousieone @Somebody @Krysus sadly, recycling plastics ends up being more expensive than using new plastics.

This is not just “parts they had around”, they stated they used recycled resins. If recycling was cheaper, everyone would beg us for us to give them our scrap plastics to profit from.

@Stocksy I like that it's a separate thing as then you can re-use old ones, and you can get a 3rd party pack as well. I still use the battery pack I had on my Xbox one for my spare controller.

@PhileasFragg yeah I do. I have a few controllers now and have plug and play for all of them. I hate AA requirement or that I have to pay more for plug and play but I like it’s future proof from battery issues that I don’t have with my ninty or Sony ones.

I’m preferring the special edition controllers to standard as I feel the plastic backs to standard ones are horrible. Both the Forza one and anniversary ones have much nicer textured backs. I’m hoping this is the same.

Should be an interesting experiment to see how this compares with your standard controllers.