If you’re making the connection wirelessly-that is, you’re using an Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows or, with the new Xbox Wireless Controller, Bluetooth-you will need to pair the controller to your PC. The new Xbox Wireless Controller supports both Bluetooth and the proprietary Xbox Wireless technologies. This is a nice option because it doesn’t take up a USB port, as do the other two methods noted above. For those with the latest Xbox controller-the one that is also included with the Xbox One S, called the Xbox Wireless Controller-its possible to connect over Bluetooth too. ( Some future PCs will include this adapter, and in 2017 and beyond we’ll see this circuitry built directly into some PC motherboards as well.) Microsoft sells a curiously large Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows for about $20 that lets you wirelessly connect any Xbox One controller to your Windows PC. Using an Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows. If you don’t mind being tethered, you can physically tether any Xbox One controller to your Windows PC using a standard micro-USB cable. There are three ways to connect an Xbox One controller to your Windows 10 PC.

So Xbox fans will want to configure an Xbox One controller on their Windows PCs as well. With Microsoft evolving its Xbox gaming platform to include Windows 10, our game play options are about to explode.

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