as the guy who brings his xbox to his locals, Microsoft clamping down on unofficial controllers bums me out. what's the point of a brook ufb if you can't use it on an xbox? what's the point playing fighters on xbox if you can't use the controller of your choice with a wingman converter? tech companies experience normal interest rates for the first time in a decade and they immediately start pulling the copper wire out of their walls.
a thought i have now and then is that pre-2023, when there were no 3rd party ps5 controllers and series x|s were easier to acquire than a ps5, microsoft could have swooped in with fgc support and leverage its backwards compatibility with xbone peripherals to try to take a tilt at playstation dominance of the scene. now i'm no business genius, but it doesn't seem that Microsoft has outmuscled Sony on big AAA shooters and action games and the like that they're exclusively focusing on. I just hate the prevailing business logic that you should exclusively focus on the goose that lays the golden egg while sidelining the geese that lay silver and bronze eggs.