Check Out the New Red, Green/Orange Microsoft Xbox One Controllers

Heads upwards, gamers: if yous're looking to add a trivial pizzazz to your stash of Microsoft Xbox accessories, this maybe just the affair: Redmond announced two new red and greenish/orangish colour options for its Xbox Wireless Controller.

The scarlet option features a 2-tone matte finish with "gloss highlights on the triggers, bumpers and D-pad, equally well as backside the thumbsticks," Bree White, Global Product Marketing Director for Xbox accessories wrote in a blogpost. It's priced at US$65, or US$five more than the standard model; if y'all're interested, you can find it at the Microsoft Store, GameStop, and other select retail stores.

The green/orange model sports a green matte finish with glossy orange highlights and accents throughout. It'southward too U.s.a.$65 and will be available via the Microsoft Store and Walmart on January 24 and select retailers starting Jan 31.

Both of these new options are uniform for gaming on the Microsoft Xbox 1, Xbox I Due south, and Windows 10 PCs and tablets.

"Both controllers characteristic all the benefits of the latest Microsoft Xbox Wireless Controller, including textured grip, improved wireless range and Bluetooth engineering science for gaming on Windows 10 devices or on Samsung Gear VR," White added. "You tin also accept advantage of the custom push button mapping feature through the Microsoft Xbox Accessories App, available for download from the Xbox Store or Windows Store."

If these two colour options don't exactly strike your fancy, yous can blueprint your own Microsoft Xbox controller in most any combination of colours you tin think of via the Xbox Design Lab. Just look to pay a US$xx premium.

Meanwhile, the new Microsoft Xbox controller colours come later Sony yesterday unveiled a 'Glacier White' Sony PlayStation 4, though at that place's no word if and when it might be bachelor in the US.

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Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's skillful on fettle and smart home products. Teaching yoga for nearly 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected health products including fettle trackers, heart charge per unit monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, strength training machines, treadmills, and more. Angela also tests smart home devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, only to name a few.