5. No Wired Controllers
Now, you may be wondering what the issue is with no wired controllers: from still needing double AA batteries to not having the capability for plug-in-and-play connection for PCs. It's one of the many incessant annoyances of the new Xbox One console, not only to the console gamer but to the PC gamer too. It's still slightly infuriating that the new Xbox still doesn't feature an internal battery with the ability to charge like the PS4 or even the PS3 controller does. It's an age-old relic of the last generation still persisting into the new as Microsoft still charges money for an external battery kit capable of recharging. Pennies upon pennies mounted up since 2005 when the power-hungry 360 required the ludicrously priced batteries causing me to succumb with trudging miles to a £1 Shop after school once a week to get my gaming fix because of my lifeless controller. This all changed once I bought a wired controller. Oh, in my mind I ponder living in an age far gone, of the nostalgic days PS2 and Gamecube when I wanted to jump two feet forward into the future, alas, it saved me money and time spent on walking better spent on procrastinating inside my bedroom. The greatest moment came along in early 2011, when the same hardened wired controller I had bought all those years ago gave me another moment of happiness, something I thought it was incapable of after saving my wallet so-many coins. I plugged it into my new gaming PC which I had spent all that I saved on the monstrous beast that would scare away even Godzilla, it looked like a nuclear bomb and was powerful enough to perform even hydrogen fusion. The drivers for the controller instantly installed onto my new Windows 7 OS. So many games supported it from the Witcher 2 to Skyrim. Bliss! So when the new console announcement came out with the talk of "vibrating triggers" and new "ergonomic and comfortable design", I was an excited man. Until... no news of any Wired controllers or even that the wireless supported Bluetooth so I couldn't even connect it to my PC, which the weaker PS3 and newer PS4 controller possess; I was disheartened and confounded by all of Microsoft's moves during the announcement. A new device with the same compatibility as the older 360 controller possessed would have increased Microsoft's sales for accessories, not Duracell's. So here's to you wired controllers who need no recharge, and here's to hoping that in the new future the Xbox One will have one too.