Earlier this yr, Microsoft relaunched its Xbox Design Lab to assist avid gamers customise their controllers with a large combine of colours, and now Microsoft is bringing again much more customizations from last-gen together with rubberized grips and metallic paint choices.

In a recent blog, regardless of already providing hundreds of thousands of present design combos, Microsoft introduced that it’s increasing customization choices to incorporate non-obligatory black rubberized grips to assist guarantee your controller doesn’t slip out of your arms within the warmth of motion, together with 19 new metallic finishes in your controller’s D-Pads and Triggers.

The new vary of metallic paint finishes consists of: Sterling Silver, Pewter Silver, Gunmetal Silver, Abyss Black, Retro Pink, Deep Pink, Oxide Red, Zest Orange, Gold, Electric Volt, Velocity Green, Glacier Blue, Dragonfly Blue, Mineral Blue, Photon Blue, Midnight Blue, Regal Purple, Nocturnal Green, and Warm Gold.

On prime of that, Microsoft has additionally added three new coloration decisions when designing your Xbox controller’s exterior, together with Dragonfly Blue, Military Green, and Electric Green, with the latter two getting slight tweaks to their coloration profile to make them richer and extra correct.

Alternatively, for those who don’t really feel like customizing each factor in your controller and would like to only purchase a controller sporting a theme based mostly in your favourite recreation, Microsoft’s new “Inspired By” line of controllers will function designs from titles equivalent to Skyrim, Forza Horizon 5, Battlefield 2042, and Riders Republic.

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The one small downside to designing your custom Xbox controller though is that controllers from the Xbox Design Lab start at $70 ($10 more than a standard Xbox controller), with some options like the new rubberized grips ($6.99) requiring some additional premiums. And because each custom controller is made to order, you’re looking at a lead time of around three to four weeks before it actually arrives.

But for individuals who wish to exhibit their design expertise with a really distinctive controller, the Xbox Design Lab now has much more customizations than earlier than. Meanwhile, PS5 house owners are nonetheless restricted to a a lot smaller vary of official coloration combos for Sony’s Dual Sense controller.