Red Resi 360 pad available separately

By Dan Pearson Published 2 March, 2009

Uses the old directional pad, though.

Microsoft has announced that the companion pad for the red, Jasper-endowed Elite console being released as part of the Resident Evil 5 special edition will also be available separately on 13th March.

The pack will contain a 'blood' red pad with a matching Play & Charge Kit. The price has yet to be finalised, but we expect that a guess of around GBP 39.99 wouldn't be too far off the mark.

The pad won't feature the improved d-pad from the limited-edition green pad released alongside last year's Pro Evolution Soccer 2009, a feature bandied about as a possibility for Street Fighter enthusiasts at the time. Resi doesn't place a great deal of demand on the d-pad though, so the functionality probably wasn't deemed necessary.

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Comments (12) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Toothball #1 3 years ago

    What was it the improved D Pad offered? Something like 32 directions? I'd have thought Street Fightists would be happy with four working ones, along with anyone who has ever used a DPad on Xbox. Guess we'll be waiting for the next Xbox for that.

  • Penguinzoot #2 3 years ago

    Not sure why the improved D-pad has not made its way into all new pads TBH.

  • patchbox360 #3 3 years ago

    hahaha the irony

  • nickthegun #4 3 years ago

    Does the new pad allow you to move and shoot at the same time?

  • jaluuk #5 3 years ago

    It is strange the D-Pad isn't just in all new pads.

    Come on MS, sort it out. It's so much fun to remind PS3 fanbois that Sony once said 'games are better without rumble' - I don't want them to turn around and remind me of the time Microsoft came up with a new D-Pad and failed to install it in all their pads...

  • Ignatius_Cheese #6 3 years ago

    My red and black pad does... ^___^
    Edited by 1 at 02/03/09 @ 17:28

  • penhalion #7 3 years ago

    The new D-Pad doesn't offer anything at all unless a game has been programmed specifically to run with it. This is why it's been largely abandoned by Microsoft.

  • GamesConnoisseur #8 3 years ago

    Nintendo and Sony owned the rights to their version of D pad and which is why MS struggled to find one that works perfectly and no chance for X360 to have a new working d pad that is easily backward comptabile to all X360 titles and requiring no patches.

    Obviously we will have to wait for the next xbox for that!

    Same as Sony decided to go without rumble purely due to licensing reason, I would have preferred MS to swallow their pride and pay royality to Sony or Nintendo for use of their D pad!

  • steellam #9 3 years ago

    Im sure there was another quite successful japanese console manufacturer that had decent dpad technology they could get on the cheap :)
    Edited by 1 at 02/03/09 @ 19:23

  • Ryze #10 3 years ago

    ^ they should look at buying the whole fucking company to rescue poor Sonic and Daytona from the fools.

  • Mudo #11 3 years ago

    What's wrong with the normal xbox 360 d-pad?

  • WJRA3561 #12 3 years ago

    its unresponsive. you won't notice in most games but its a real pain for street fighter.