Official Xbox Flight Controllers from Microsoft?

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Now that Flight Simulator is very integrated with Xbox, does Microsoft have any plans to increase the family of official Xbox controllers adding flight controllers?

I love my Xbox controller to play other games on the PC, but it’s far from ideal for flying. I’m looking to upgrade my old flight stick but haven’t decided on the best one yet especially because none of the current ones seem to have force feedback.

I would love to see how Microsoft would approach an official Xbox flight stick and/or HOTAS system. Brings me good memories of the old Microsoft Sidewinder with force feedback.

Anyone else things this would be a good idea? or not?

EDIT:
Found this highly informative video about the subject. Let’s increase the demand simmers! :slight_smile: What happened to Force Feedback Flight Sticks? - YouTube

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Microsoft hasn’t put out any other peripherals besides the basics (mice, keyboards etc) in so long.

I just don’t see MS trying to compete with Turtle Beach, Thrustmaster, Logitech and Honeycomb. Hardware really isn’t Microsoft’s strong suit…

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I still use a sidewinder FF2 which must be nearly 20 years old. Just because they haven’t done it in a very long time doesn’t mean they shouldn’t.

As for hardware not being Microsoft’s strong suit…xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox series, we’re on the 9th generation of Surface Pro, Surface Laptop (4th or 5th gen) etc etc. For it not being their strong suit they certainly seem to have invested heavily in and are making plenty of money from hardware.

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I understand what you mean about not having many peripherals, but I disagree about them not being strong in hardware. Also, nobody saw Microsoft resurrecting Flight Simulator and competing with P3D/Xplane either, and here we are.

Microsoft does make great hardware. I love the Xbox controller and I’ve always only used Microsoft mice and keyboard. Don’t really care about the all “gamer” stuff with a million RGB lights.

The Surface family are the best tablets/laptops I’ve ever owned. I don’t own an Xbox but I assume it’s good considering how popular it is, right? Hololens is still niche, but it’s an amazing hardware. Sidewinder was great at the time… and so on…

So yeah, I’m sure they could make a great flight controller if they wanted to.

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You are confusing peripherals (mice, keyboards, joysticks, game controllers, steering wheels, pedals, headsets, speakers, mouse pads etc) with computers like surface and xbox. What i’m saying is Microsoft PERIPHERALS are pieces of garbage. Are peripherals not hardware?

Playstation has outsold Xbox. You must not remember the RRoD
Hololens was meant to compete with Google Glasses and look where those are. Something about personal movements being tracked really kills the idea of augmented reality glasses
I could care less about Apple, but i wouldn’t want my tablet to be running something originally designed to run on a desktop and would rather get an iPad

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More choice of peripherals on console would be great. The Turtlebeach stuff is very well made but the new hotas is not an option for xbox, unfortunately the TM Hotas is more toy than tool and very poorly made so reliably unreliable. Id love to see better made hotas options for us on xbox but you can pretty much guarantee the MS has sewn up an exclusivity contract with TM stating that only the shoddy Hotas One will be the only availiable option until 2324

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Xbox is better spec than the PS5 and the S was a great idea. A bargain at under 250!!!

Poor marketing and excellent hype by the more social media savvy Sony killed it for Xbox.

The PS5 looks way cooler too.

Xbox is literally a boring box. They should have added some cool lighting like a PC if they wanted to make it look like one. The S looks dated too.

Doubt they’ll make Peripherals, there’s an excellent range out there. What more is needed?

If you want to make a home cockpit then PC is only route.

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New Xbox’s coming, i think next month is the announcement?

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Its just a re vamp of the series x, no new spec except removal of the disc drive. Next gen is scheduled for 2028 announcement

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Please give us cyclic and collective and pedals!
Make them cheap! Doesnt need to be expensive, just a long stick out of plastic.

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There’s a reason if i stick with an xbox controller, there’s literally no choice on Xbox and even some scam around. The TCA flightstick for Xbox, which is virtually identical to its pc counter part, cost double the price for literally no reason. They really drop the ball for hardware on Xbox.

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