Xbox Elite 3 prototype pad leaks with tiny built-in screen

Did a prototype Microsoft gamepad autumn disconnected the backmost of a truck? We can’t say, but a Redditor has legit-looking photos of a prototype Xbox controller that’s almost surely the Xbox Elite Series 3. Incredibly, they declare they bought the 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 the 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 the Xbox Elite 3’s built-in screen, a antecedently unrevealed feature.

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

And if I’m not mistaken, the 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, the Redditor says the controller doesn’t work. “It does not brace pinch an Xbox nor pinch a cable. Just the reddish ray blinking but doesn’t do immoderate point wired aliases wireless,” they wrote.

In different photos, we tin spot the 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 the May leak. The Redditor says the triggers are clicky erstwhile you fastener them to the hair-trigger position.

But beyond the screen, the astir intriguing image is from wrong the 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 the 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.