Smaller Xbox Wireless Adapter Delayed Until January 2022

If you enjoy using the Xbox I controller for gaming on your Xbox, it'southward as well possible to apply it for playing PC games just by plugging in a USB cable, or more conveniently, purchasing an Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows. Microsoft made the adapter available style back in 2022, but before this month a new model was unveiled. It's 66 percent smaller, making it much nicer to utilize, particularly with laptops, tablets, or in a crowded depository financial institution of USB ports.

Co-ordinate to Windows Fundamental, the revised adapter was scheduled to launch this month in "select markets" for $24.99 and in the US specifically on August 8. Yet, for some every bit however unexplained reason, Microsoft delayed the U.s.a. launch past six months. The new Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows ten will now not be available until January 31, 2022. That also ways the $79.99 Xbox I controller and wireless adapter combo will too exist delayed until then.

Xbox One Wireless Adapter for Windows 10 With Controller

My first idea was that Microsoft found an issue and decided to take some fourth dimension to ready it. Just that can't be the example as Japan will get the adapter on Baronial 24. Australia and New Zealand get it in September. So either those dates are going to become put back too, or there's a problem specific to the US for the adapter.

The original Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows remains bachelor with a $24 price tag, then you won't be left without an pick to play PC games with the Xbox One controller and no cable. It's surely going to be quite frustrating for US gamers if Microsoft does end up launching the more desirable adapter in other regions of the world months earlier than in its home territory, though.