Heart Breaker, Ice Breaker, and Storm Breaker, to beryllium specific.
Microsoft has announced a trio of unsocial caller Xbox Wireless peculiar variation controllers. It’s called the Breaker series, and it includes 3 caller controllers of assorted colors, agreed by a jagged plan benignant that looks rather stylish. They’re each disposable for preorder for $79.99, with a September 9 merchandise date. You tin spot them astatine Microsoft Store oregon cheque the Amazon page, wherever the listings are gradually being populated (full listings should beryllium up soon, and I'll update this leafage erstwhile they are).
There’s the blue-tinged Ice Breaker, the black-and-white Storm Breaker, and the Heart Breaker, which is purple, pink, and blue. Each 1 has textured grips, arsenic good arsenic unsocial elements we’ll get into below.
Xbox Wireless Controller - Ice Breaker Special Edition
Xbox Wireless Controller - Ice Breaker Special Edition
The Ice Breaker controller has a cool, uh, icy design, with blue, airy blue, achromatic shards connected its face. The non-painted parts of the beforehand of the controller are translucent white, giving it immoderate bully depth. It besides has assorted shades of airy bluish connected its thumbsticks, look buttons, and D-pad. And the grips are textured, truthful it won’t gaffe retired of your hands similar ice. The wide effect is beauteous striking.
Xbox Wireless Controller - Heart Breaker Special Edition
Xbox Wireless Controller - Heart Breaker Special Edition
If the colors of the different 2 Breaker bid Xbox controllers are somewhat subtle, that’s not a occupation for the Heart Breaker controller. Its look features bold pink, purple, and bluish shards connected translucent pinkish plastic. The sticks are purple and the D-pad is pink, and the look buttons person pinkish letters connected purple backgrounds.
Xbox Wireless Controller - Storm Breaker Special Edition
Xbox Wireless Controller - Storm Breaker Special Edition
For those who admit the little colorful broadside of controller design, the Storm Breaker Xbox controller is the 1 to get. It has the aforesaid shard-based design, but with tasteful black, gray, and achromatic shards. It doesn’t person immoderate translucent integrative connected its face, but it does person “hints of metallic foliage erstwhile you rotate the instrumentality wrong the light.” That’s beauteous neat. It besides has a metallic D-pad.
As with each colorways of authoritative Xbox Wireless controllers, these are compatible with Xbox Series S|X, Xbox One, Windows PC, Mac, Android, and iOS devices. I’ve been playing video games a agelong time, and this enactment of Xbox controllers is my favourite controller of each time. It feels large successful the hand, the textured grips are terrific, arsenic are the textured triggers. The PS5 DualSense whitethorn person a large touchpad and other haptics, but I tin decidedly unrecorded without that stuff, due to the fact that it conscionable doens't consciousness arsenic bully to use. That's my opinion, anyway.
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Originally posted:
Sep 3, 2025 3:09 pm