Not planning to eat dinner off of it!

Perhaps grab a black/UV light and check your controller before you accept its condition.

> crusty controller
> "No Signs of Use"

Pick one.

Obviously everything is, in a sense, worth whatever you're willing to pay, but this thing is far being the Rolex of controllers.
1 in 6 reviews at 2 stars or less, rife with complaints about technical faults. It's not great, is it. Even for £70.

I'd be interested to know the production cost. I suspect Microsoft are keen that I don't.

Voted hot for the price.

Perhaps grab a black/UV light and check your controller before you accept its condition.

tempted as one of the buttons is starting to stick on mine.

Is this a refurb? It doesn't say in the title?
If it's a brand new unopened pad with a scuffed box as it seems from the description then it's gonna go 1000°+ very quickly!

Cracking price and the controller is great to use hopefully they'll release a newer version with the added Bluetooth etc

Bargain! Ordered!

I think when you see that something is graded, it should tell you that it isn't new, unless my thinking is completely wrong

Just ordered, been looking for one for a while but couldn't justify £120 odd. Thank you, heat added

Bloody great controller - significantly better than the standard one, well worth the X2 pricetag..... Love it for pc gaming

Great controller but I was hoping there one of the swappable sticks was shorter than default. They're all longer.

So tempted.

I like my controller but it does disconnect sometimes for no reason and I need to reboot the PC.

£70 for someone else's crusty controller. No thanks.

I really regret buying mine. I've had two fail in 2 years now. First one got stick drift so i couldn't drive with it and now the LB on my 3 month old replacement has failed. GAME are refusing to replace as it is now out of the original warranty.

I've never had a £35 Xbox 360 controller fail but now two £120 controllers.

"No signs of use" is all well and good until a bogey falls out of the trigger.

Bumpers are an easy fix. There's sellers on eBay that will repair and send back, or you can buy the bumpers and fix it yourself ~£9 plus your time. It'll be as good as new provided you haven't broken the retaining piece on the frame of your controller which rarely breaks anyway.

it just over a year old so doubt i'll get help.

i usually crap on buying used controllers but beggars can't be choosers.

Sort of want one for my pc but still seems alot for a controller and amazon reviews arnt very positive. Im going to have to think about it. probably be out of stock by the time i have made my mind up lol

I always strip and clean used pads and often on the elite fit a new front and rear shell along with grips so that it's not grotty.
The thumbsticks tell a lot on these because the module that the base slides into is plastic. The thumbstick base is metal so over time it scratches the thumbstick module down, reducing it's diameter resulting in loose fitting sticks. If you turn your Elite pad upside down and the thumbstick bases clunk down you know it's a well used controller.

Thanks just ordered!
Could never justify the £120 price :disappointed:

same went for it, im expecting to be let down somehow.

Can you remap the paddles to keyboard buttons?

Anyone know if this would work with the Xbox 360 wireless dongle on PC?

No pubes, no heat! :wink:

Well... cheeky

How old is your console? Microsoft don't ask for the date of purchase of the controller, but the console when they process the purchase to then generate a return code for the retailer.

I had the left thumb stick go loose , mine go changed through Argos, but they offered me their 3 year warrant for £30 on the replacement so I took that as well as Argos just to a straight swap then without talking to Microsoft..

Cracking controller for this price. Not much more than some of those special edition ones - assuming this is just new and damaged box :stuck_out_tongue:

£70 for a controller?? Get in the sea

Why does this website look just like Box.co.uk? Is it the same company?

Why should we "get in the sea"? You win top prize for the most moronic comment yet.

Yea they r the same parent company

I don't own an xbox...I use it on my gaming rig. Its strange I was playing Andromeda and all of a sudden it stops so I changed the battery and still no going so I reboot the pc and it works again. Done it on Prey as well and I am using the proper xbox connection dongle. Still I have just bought a gaming keyboard (k95 platinum speed) so maybe ill use a keyboard if it continues to play up

Haha, the grip came off my elite pad (a common know issue) Microsoft would not do a thing as i was a month over on my warranty. I had to pay to send it to them for repairs. I go a scuff grip set to replace it instead. Microsoft seem to be aware off issues that plague the elite controller but don't want to do anything about it. I think theres a reason the pad only has a 3 or 6 month warranty in America. Best pad ive ever used though so even with its known faults I can't be without it now.

Also new grips are about a tenner delivered from eBay or £15 ish on Amazon.

Nope it needs the new one which can be had for about £15. You could use it wired or buy a One S pad instead which is Bluetooth or wait for the Gen 2 to come out which I'd expect would be this year as they are making the parts in the factory for it as we speak.

Obviously everything is, in a sense, worth whatever you're willing to pay, but this thing is far being the Rolex of controllers.
1 in 6 reviews at 2 stars or less, rife with complaints about technical faults. It's not great, is it. Even for £70.

I'd be interested to know the production cost. I suspect Microsoft are keen that I don't.

Voted hot for the price.

This is my only reservation in buying one. I've had 4 controllers in 12months brake, none if them the elite, but I'm pretty sure a lot of the components are the same. I've never dropped or thrown a controller. Only play the Xbox about 10 hours a week. They just all keep failing. The right stick drifting has happened twice. Both bumpers have broken, I keep the old controllers for spares to make 1 new good controller. But I'm slowly running out of parts. My last controller kept switching off after 2 months. So I exchanged it. I've ordered parts off eBay, but they are cheap, don't sit perfect and feel rubbish. So many fails, so i cant buy one of these? Because when it breaks (which I have no doubt it will) I'll be annoyed with myself. Hope when this new Xbox comes out they resolve the problem. I've heard the controller for the new Xbox is going to be simular to the one s controllers and they keep dying on me.

Great find , thanks

Month out of warranty? Damn that's Sod's law :disappointed:

Am I the only one who thinks the world has gone mad when a second hand controller for 70 quid is deemed a good deal?? :wink::smile:

I have one. Died after 12 months and 10 days. Turns out they can do less, and are surprisingly efficient at it.

No, a lot of other people who've never had one feel the same way.

I always find it funny to watch people who've never used a really game changing bit of technology decry it due to a lack of imagination.

Thought £100 was too much for one when it was first launched

Used one for myself shortly after

Bought one immediately

Are all attachments included tho? Also, the braided green and black cable is such a good quality cable

Yeah i got some scuf ones. The stock ones are known to have problems still. Replacing something on a £100 pad still seems like a raw deal to me.

Same experience here. I think the elite is a problem product. A lot to go wrong with it and a lot that does go wrong. So many broken ones on ebay. Still i love the pad. Its easily the best feeling pad i have ever used.

This is the problem precisely. They have created the most premium controller to use I've ever come across.

For the money you spend, and the feel of the product, you'd expect the build quality to be up to the same premium.

... and it just isn't.

But what are you going to do? All the other gamepads feel like cracker gifts afterwards.

Luckily the only problem i had with mine so far was the grips peeling off. Ive replaced them with some scuff ones. The rest of the pad functionality is still there. I tried to go back to the standard pad for about a week. But actually found that the lightweight feeling and plasticky movement of the joysticks started to hurt my hands. It feels hard to go back once you've felt the elite. I just hope the rest of the pad holds up. I wont be buying another.

Its hardly game changing. Its a standard format controller that costs a few £ to manufacture.

Any slight movement of the wire can disconnect it from the pc, I have several ps4 and xbox one controllers which do this safer just using it wirelessly and charge using a wall plug

Sure, feels like the standard one.... Ish

The elite one has a much better feeling heavier weight, smoother triggers, much more precisely moving analogue sticks....

Then there's the hair trigger switches for the two triggers too, the rubberised grip, the paddles as you mentioned, different height analogue sticks, different dpads...... A replica is not very easy to make love...

Reinstall the driver, or reselect the driver manually from your computer if you know how... I had this issue on pc for a while until I was bothered to find the fix..... Feel free to message me in the morning if you want help fixing it

Look, kid, there's really only two options here.

a) you've never held one, and don't know what the fuss is about
b) you have held one, and can't tell.

I don't know which of those two options is worst news for you, but neither one of them affects me at all.

You say it doesn't affect you but it triggered a bit of a ranty reply to the fella, suggesting it does affect you dearly.........

I think the charge fails to acknowledge the number of people who decry it for other reasons, and that the spectrum of skepticism overall looks something like this:

Im on my third replacement now in a year and a half. Got it replaced again by GAME 2 weeks agi. .They were not happy bunnys.. Initially refused, even I have still got 6 months of gamecare warranty.

The manager tokd me over the counter that they will not give another if a fault devolps and my policy has been cancelled .

Have been meaning to send them email but no got round to it.

Anyhows, I have had losse thumbsticks, sueaky trigger and faulty headset jack.

Great controller such a shame poor build quailty.

Game seamingly bin the returned faulty controllers well thats what she told me anyway.

Heat.

The Scuf ones wear down so that your can't see the S logo anymore on it and are pretty soft rubber so aren't a magic cure.
You can modify standard plastic grips if you've had enough of things wearing out though.

I was fortunate and got some elite stuff at cost from a friend for around £30 and made a replica, it wasn't difficult.
The weight comes from the metal thumbsticks/dpad and rear shell.
The analogue sticks are the same, it's the One S sticks that are more rigid. You can measure the resistance using a set of kitchen scales to check this yourself. :smile:
The triggers are exactly the same items as a standard controller.
The rear shell has the trigger stops built into them and works with the non-elite.
If anyone did want to make one you need:

Elite front shell
Metal thumbstick bases
Different height thumbsticks
Green magnetic dpad base
Metal dpads
Elite ABXY buttons
Elite LT & RT buttons
Elite bumpers and centre piece
Elite rear shell
Elite rear grips
T8 security screwdriver
T6 screwdriver
YouTube video

I've spent longer blowing my nose than typing that reply, so you might be overstating the case a little. I'll conceed that I notcied someone was wrong on the internet and it was keeping me awake.

Great deal, heat added

had an elite controller since release, cannot use anything else, grabbed another thanks

Thanks for that advice. I have googled and done the fix , changed the usb socket etc. I put it down to the game so I'm playing dishonoured now and it seems ok. Go back to prey and it does it again so no worries and again tnx

Nice getting mine today, will make note if I find any used bogeys/questionable human matter.

Ordered mine yesterday afternoon, dispatched half hour later and just arrived! STILL SEALED.
First time using this company but very impressed.

box was entirely sealed?

With a 3rd party program like joy2key I'm sure you can, not tried it myself. The app that MS provides only allows remapping to other controller buttons.

did u pay extra for next day or the free delivery option?

Free 5 day postage.

Yep!

ok hope i got that lucky, mine is out for delivery now.

It's a Microsft software problem I have had it with both the bluetooth and the wireless dongle in Windows 8 and Windows 10, with both the Xbox360 and Xbox1 controllers.

ok got it, not factory sealed but must of been wrapped by them. Everything looks unused though.

Feels so weird seeing an unmodified one lol!
Here's mine:
You can see how manky the thumbsticks get!
Are the thumbsticks nice and clear of skin/dust as they pick it up like crazy.
Also are the rear grips and rear shell worn much or as new?

Did you do yours yourself? I've done all my previous controllers and a few for friends.

Left my Elite original currently.

Yeah, not really that many custom elite controllers on eBay it's mostly parts to be honest.
Switching the ABXY buttons is the only pain, the rest of it is easy.
The LT/RT are annoying because aftermarket items buzz due to being slightly out. You could try and mod them maybe.. I think working out a design that uses Genuine triggers would be better though..
The aftermarket ABXY buttons can need sanding/adjusting as well.
Oh and the bumpers like one in two of them that are aftermarket don't work properly so I'd get some spares and be ready to send some back. Apart from that it's great!
I've been wanting to use the Xbox One S gears of war crimson omen as a front shell for a long time I think it would look amazing!!

If you play boost jumping games online like destiny and cod then unless you play claw these are really good, the difference been able to jump and shoot at the same time wins a gun fight, I on the other hand use x and get owned alot by scuff owners and claw users unless they aint so good in the first place!!

No longer £69.99. £85 as of this morning unless there is a discount code?

Well, that's the order I was thinking about making now gone :smile:

Decided I'd bite at £69.99 but it's now £85. Saved me some cash, phew.

There was some dry skin pick up- I'm not sure if that was me or not though because I played like 5 hours straight of Overwatch when I got it! Rear shell looks brand new, as do the rear grips