Microsoft extends its repairability program to the controllers of its Xbox console. Available in the United States at this time, official parts and instructions are available to repair standard and Elite Series 2 controllers.
In the middle of a frenzied game on your Xbox Series X, it’s the tragedy: the right trigger no longer responds. No matter how hard you try, the button has given up the ghost. Except that buying an entire controller for a single defective part makes you grumble. Microsoft has finally understood this and has recently been offering replacement parts for Xbox Standard and Elite Series 2 controllerson its American online store.
This desire to allow self-help troubleshooting is not new. In 2021, Microsoft signed an agreement with the organization As You Sow to facilitate the repair of all its devices. In the viewfinder, two-in-one Surface Pro PCs, Xbox consoles and today, associated controllers. Understand that it was not impossible before to obtain spare parts, but it was necessary go through a third-party reseller, sometimes without really knowing if the product was official. No more intermediaries now.
Microsoft offers spare parts and instructions to repair your Xbox controllers
On the firm’s American online store, you can buy everything that makes up the controller: motherboard, front panel, buttons and motors. Two colors are available, black and white. Note that set is only for wireless models. To complete the process, Microsoft has posted a page dedicated to the repair of controllersplus an explanatory video centered on the Elite Series 2 version, to be seen at the end of the article.
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Make more accessible the possibility of repair our devices ourselves is a step in the right direction. Whether on an economic or ecological level, the impact is in any case beneficial. This trend is part of a more general democratization of the “right to reparation”, presented by the European Commission at the beginning of the year. We do not yet know the launch date of the Microsoft program in France. For Apple, it took a year.