Customer Reviews for Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Controller for Windows

Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Controller for Windows
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Video Game Reviews of Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Controller for Windows

Customer Review: Just as good as on console
Summary: 4 Stars

Feels and responds as well as on the Xbox 360. However, the cursed 360 D-Pad is legendary in how awful it is. The analogs on it are great, and the controller is one of the best ergonomic controllers I have used.

I got it so I could do XNA development on the PC using a 360 controller a lot easier. It in turn works well for that purpose. For $10-15 more than a wireless controller by itself, you get a receiver that lets you use Xbox 360 wireless controllers on a PC, which should also include controllers like the Guitar Hero Ax and fighting sticks. Microsoft somewhere even tells you how they are mapped.

Customer Review: I've tried everything
Summary: 1 Stars

I downloaded the drivers for Vista 32bit (my PC)
I downloaded and set up xpadder
I replaced batteries.. twice.

The game on my PC that I'm trying to connect with is Assassin's Creed.
All the lights on the controller and receiver function as advertised.

I get absolutely no response in the game to my wireless controller. The only good thing I've experienced is the speed with which the vendor got this product to me.

Customer Review: Xbox 360 wireless controler
Summary: 4 Stars

Good wireless controler..
But it was an open box ?????Not a new one like described....

Customer Review: Great controllers but the wireless receiver stink.
Summary: 1 Stars

The transceivers that come with the controllers are crap, shame I didn't learn about it until after I picked one up but these things have been failure prone for years. The power draw is high and users have had USB devices that were plugged in simultaneously fail (actual device failure, just just plug back in failure), and even if it doesn't kill other devices, the receiver is prone to fail itself. There was a link on Engadget years ago describing these issues and user feedback.

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The problem with the receivers themselves is that the power draw is so high the F1 fuse on the unit is blowing (which could potentially kill underpowered USB devices on same computer). It can be opened up and hacked manually, but why should you have to do that? Now you've got a device which takes too much power, and exceeds the operating limits that even MS defined.

Oh - and product only warrantied for 90 days, never mind that the receiver doesn't get the wear and tear that the controller would. Disappointing, bad design that's sure to fail after long enough, and I would not recommend.