Purported Xbox Elite Series 3 Controller Prototype Somehow Ends Up in a Customer's Hands

The Xbox Elite Series 3 Wireless Controller hasn't adjacent been officially announced yet, but a purported prototype has seemingly recovered its mode into the hands of idiosyncratic who thought they were buying an Elite Series 2 controller connected the retail website OfferUp.

User "ssuberlex" connected Reddit posted to the r/Controller subreddit asking users determination whether oregon not they'd managed to get their hands connected an Xbox Elite Series 3 controller, contempt it not adjacent being formally revealed yet. Members of the subreddit peppered the station with assured assertions that the archetypal poster had someway acquired a prototype of the Elite Series 3.

Commenter "workerq1" responded, "That's def a dev kit Elite 3, it whitethorn person been encrypted to lone usage with registered dev relationship connected Xbox." And definite enough, the caller proprietor of the controller mentioned elsewhere successful the thread that "it does not brace with an Xbox nor with a cable. Just the reddish airy blinking but doesn’t bash immoderate happening wired oregon wireless."

This caller sighting follows an alleged leak from May. The Elite 3 volition reportedly diagnostic "Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth, a 3.5mm jack, interchangeable D-pad, paddles, 2 scroll wheels, and trigger locks" on with "a caller brace fastener that tin power betwixt section and unreality mode to trim latency."

A ceremonial uncover of the Xbox Elite Series 3 controller seems to beryllium a substance of when, not if. Could it get revealed astatine Gamescom aboriginal this month? We gave the Elite Series 2 a 7 retired of 10 successful our 2019 review, and we loved the archetypal merchandise backmost successful 2015.

Ryan McCaffrey is IGN's enforcement exertion of previews and big of IGN's play Xbox show, Podcast Unlocked, and a co-host of Next-Gen Console Watch. He's a North Jersey guy, truthful it's "Taylor ham," not "pork roll." Debate it with him connected Twitter astatine @DMC_Ryan.