[games_access] Scene It? Xbox 360 more accessible controllers

[d. michelle hinn]

I'll do a bit of investigating and report back. regardless, it's a 
huge step in the right direction!

michelle

>I read conflicting reports about the top round disk on these 
>controllers. I can't imagine it being very easy to use as a D-pad, 
>but I'll wait and see... Still - very nice to see something appear 
>on the Xbox 360 which has so few controllers available if you don't 
>use an XFPS360 Playstation controller adapter.
>
>Barrie
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:reid at rbkdesign.com>Reid Kimball
>To: <mailto:games_access at igda.org>IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List
>Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 5:08 AM
>Subject: Re: [games_access] Scene It? Xbox 360 more accessible controllers
>
>I can't find the quote, but I read an interview and the MS rep did 
>say they want more games to use the peripheral. We can be sure to 
>see more games using it. I won't be surprised if it's up to 
>developers to contact MS and say, "We want to make this game using 
>that peripheral."
>
>The big button at the top acts as a D-Pad as far as I know, rather 
>than one big button.
>
>-Reid
>
>
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