Microsoft shows off shiny black and purple 360 controllers

Microsoft shows off shiny black and purple 360 controllers

Microsoft is looking to expand its range of special edition Chrome controllers, with a couple of new variants: shiny black and shiny purple.

Set to be released worldwide this March, the new controllers will cost you $55 a piece in the US, with international prices yet to be announced. However, you will have to buy them from specific outlets, as Microsoft has twinned itself with different retailers to make things difficult, or interesting. Or something.

The purple one will only be available at Best Buy stores, whereas the glossy black one, will feature at Walmart. Though you can buy either from the Microsoft online store, which seems like the option most gamers will take.

While Microsoft is all about the Xbox One these days, it does still throw some love the Xbox 360's way. However, with the cancellation of 360 releases like Project CARS and developers beginning to look to the future, it makes you wonder how much life is left in the old Microsoft system

Granted the PS2 has only just stopped selling well so there can be a lot of life in a console after its generation has died off, but it seems unlikely the 360 would achieve the same longterm success as Sony's most popular console ever.

What do you guys think?