Xbox Controller buttons are disconcertingly different in size

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It turns out that Xbox controller buttons are actually very different in size 🥂to one another.

Just yesterday on September 6, th🐷e post on the Reddit gaming subreddit forum took off, with well over 20,000 u♊pvotes a day later. The post itself shows the different sizes of the Xbox buttons, as they reach further down into the controller itself than one might initially think.

In the comments, people have attempted to explain why this is actually the case. It turns out that every Xbox controller, whether it be for the Xbox One, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Xbox Series X, or 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Xbox Series S, all have two printed circuit boards, oth🐭erwise known as PCBs, housed within them.

These two PCBs are placed one on 🌳top of the other. The contacts for the A, X, and Y buttons on the Xbox controller are positioned over the top PCB𝓡, while the B button is positioned over the PCB that's lower down within the controller, hence why it's longer as it has further to reach to the circuit board sitting underneath.

It's also worth remembering why the buttons are all slanted in such a way. The B button is more slanted than the other interfaces because it's closer to the curved edge of the Xbox controller, whereas A, X, and Y are all closer to the m💝iddle of the controller, and are therefore on a much flatter surfac🌺e than the former button.

It's a really neat bit of trivia for Xbox owners, and something that would no d𝓰oubt have remained hidden had people not taken apart their Xbox controller to either mod or fix t🔯hem.

However far the buttons go in, here's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:how to use an Xbox One controller on PC.

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