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A slide of a leaked MIcrosoft presentation about the company’s plans for a mid-generation Xbox Series X refresh, showing a new controller with the project title “Sebile”.

The FTC vs Microsoft-initiatedDay of Leakagecontinues with details of forthcoming Xbox peripherals, amongst them a grey-and-white “Sebile” controller offering all manner of haptic and motion-sensitivity-based wonderment. Hah, the only thing it doesn’t let you do is commune with the dead! Actually, there are a few other things it doesn’t let you do, but let’s stick to the positives for the moment.

Image credit:Microsoft/FTC

A slide of a leaked Microsoft presentation about the company’s plans for its gaming business, showing a range of existing and planned hardware.

A slide of a leaked MIcrosoft presentation about the company’s plans for a mid-generation Xbox Series X refresh, showing a new controller with the project title “Sebile”.

A slide of a leaked Microsoft presentation about the company’s plans for its gaming business, showing stats for several possible forthcoming Xbox devices.

A slide of a leaked Microsoft presentation about the company’s plans for its gaming business, showing a picture of Master Chief with several bullet points about the vision for Xbox.

One slide from the “roadmap to 2030” presentation spells out the centrality of controllers at large to Microsoft’s plans, and especially its Game Pass business. “Controller becomes the hero,” it declares, explaining that “the new Xbox controller is the only thing you need to play on every device. This low barrier to entry will fuel subscriber growth.” It’s perhaps worth considering that in the context of Microsoft’s reported plans fora new “hybrid” cloud gaming platform in 2028, which will make use of a lightweight OS to run cloud games on cheaper, “consumer and handheld” devices.