It's a funny twist of fate that it took Fortnite full-on embracing gyro & flick stick for Xbox players to start asking for gyro. Better late than never, I suppose. Hopefully this leads to Microsoft adding a gyroscope (& an accelerometer) to a revision of the Xbox Series controller.Fraser Gilbert said:If you're an avid Fortnite player, you may be interested to know that the game added gyro controls to more platforms earlier this week in the form of PS4, PS5 and PC, which now makes Xbox the only platform not to support the feature.
Of course, there's a very good reason for this - Xbox controllers don't have motion sensors, so there's literally no way of implementing gyro aiming with the current Xbox controller design. And that's left some Fortnite fans very disappointed.
Ultimately, there's just no way around this for the team at Epic Games right now, and it doesn't look like gyro controls are going to be implemented in Xbox controllers at any point in the near future — maybe with the next console revision?
It's a real shame to sit on the sidelines as everyone else gets the feature, but that's the way it is for the time being.
Source(s): Pure Xbox (& various other Twitter accounts)
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