Xbox Series X|S

I haven't had the CoD advert either. Is it for CoD lovers maybe?

I clicked goodbye and barely noticed. It's less annoying than the steam pop up, probably.

I did the same, but my hands were shaking with outrage whilst I did it.

The 12 tabs of ads on the dash are still the biggest piss take. Yes I don't have to scroll down but they took away our ability to pin more than 2 groups to it.

So there goes my Xbox Elite Series 2 controller. Again.
These things are marketed as being heavy duty, hardcore controllers but this is the 4th pad that's died (counting Series 1). They feel great but they're so shoddily put together and have a habit of crapping out just after the warranty ends.

While not the Elite, I've gone through 3 pads on the Series X since launch. I play for a few hours maybe 3 times a week these days, so hardly excessive use.

All the previous xbox consoles I've used the original pads they came with at launch and still work now. Unless I'm just unlucky, this generation they seem especially poorly put together. I've had stick drift on one occasion, straight out of the box.

I just hope this new fangled controller that is rumoured to be arriving next year is better put together.

I've never owned an Elite, but I did have terrible luck with Xbox One pads. Ended up with two with stick drift and one with a dead trigger.

My XSX pads are fairing much better. So far.

In my entire time using Xbox consoles (so over 20 years at this point) I've had two problems with pads: the Xbox One controller I got at launch eventually just bust, with one of the sticks stuck; that was maybe two years or so ago. And my main controller is still a Design Lab one I had made about a year before the Series X came out, and I've worn most of the rubber off one of the thumbsticks.

That's it. Every other controller has been fine. I doubt I play quite as much as others on here - if I'm lucky an hour a day, although that would have been higher in the 360 years. I guess the Xbox One controller would have been through the wringer with my kids, too.

Both my son and I have had to buy replacements for the official controller and both were the same reason.
Lb not working properly, both pads you had to really press hard down on the button for it to maybe register that you were pressing it. Great pads otherwise

Actually this bumper talk has reminded me that before the analogue stick cocked up, my Xbox One pad did have a dodgy bumper button too. Sometimes it'd seem to stick, other times it'd seem like it wasn't registering the press.

Anyway, I still think one legitimately crocked pad in twenty years isn't too bad, but again I don't think I'm a "power user" necessarily.

My Series X LB fucked up after 18 months or so. Three quids worth of plastic from eBay later and it’s sorted and I have red sticks now because why not?!

I remember the 360 ones being all but bullet proof.

With MS rumoured to be extending their wireless protocol licencing to more 3rd party manufacturers hopefully we'll see some decent alternatives in the future.