Xbox One Controller Almost Had Smell-O-Vision And An Integrated Display

The Microsoft Xbox One controller was recently detailed in a new video and one of its features that we know of is that it will play nice with PCs in 2014, but of course with every product, we expected the controller to have undergone several revisions during the course of its design and it seems that some of those features includes smell-o-vision and an integrated screen. This was revealed by Zulfi Alam, Microsoft’s head of Xbox accessories during an interview with Kotaku.

According to Alam, the company had initially experimented with the idea of introducing smell-o-vision to the controller, allowing gamers to smell the environment their game was in, such as burning rubber from racing games, the smells of the forest in games like Crysis, and so on. However the smells turned out to be too overpowering and took a long time to leave the room which we guess is not a pleasant experience.

Alam also revealed that Microsoft had toyed with the idea of introducing a small screen and tiny speakers embedded into the controller, but unfortunately due to battery drain, they decided against it. Pretty interesting concepts, but what do you guys think?

Tyler Lee
Categories: Gaming
Tags: Xbox One