Xbox Elite 3 Prototype Pad Leaks With Tiny Built-in Screen

Did a prototype Microsoft gamepad autumn disconnected nan backmost of a truck? We can’t say, but a Redditor has legit-looking photos of a prototype Xbox controller that’s almost surely nan Xbox Elite Series 3. Incredibly, they declare they bought nan pad for $200 connected OfferUp.

In May, a Brazilian regulator’s leaked images revealed that Xbox Elite 3 would person caller 2 caller scroll wheels connected nan bottommost edge, a 2nd wireless mode to link straight to Xbox Cloud Gaming servers, and a caller “Pair Button” that tin besides move betwixt those servers and your console.

Where mightiness that brace fastener live? Today, we person a imaginable answer: it mightiness beryllium correct adjacent to nan Xbox Elite 3’s built-in screen, a antecedently unrevealed feature.

The surface looks almost precisely for illustration nan leaked sketch from May showing nan mode move dialogue, pinch a brace fastener astatine nan left:

And if I’m not mistaken, nan surface connected Redditor ssuberlex’s controller is displaying the small XCloud rocket ship adjacent to an Xbox Series X.

The surface tin apparently show different things, too. In different photo, it shows a URL that takes maine to a Microsoft unreality assets I don’t person support to view. That lends these images immoderate other credibility. Unfortunately, nan Redditor says nan controller doesn’t work. “It does not brace pinch an Xbox nor pinch a cable. Just nan reddish ray blinking but doesn’t do immoderate point wired aliases wireless,” they wrote.

In different photos, we tin spot nan controller’s caller scroll wheels, its 4 rear paddles, its artillery compartment, its carrying case, and a different detachable D-pad creation than we saw in nan May leak. The Redditor says nan triggers are clicky erstwhile you fastener them to nan hair-trigger position.

But beyond nan screen, nan astir intriguing image is from wrong nan controller’s artillery compartment. It appears Microsoft has made efforts to make this controller location repairable by including a QR codification that presumably leads to a repair website, and accessible Torx T6 screws.

Still, nary of these features are for certain. The controller is intelligibly a prototype, pinch “NOT FOR SALE” labels connected some nan pad and its removable 5.8 watt-hour battery, and galore placeholder ID numbers for various regulatory bodies.

Tom Warren, The Verge’s Microsoft expert, says his sources judge this controller is still coming later this year.