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The Xbox Series X doesn't support bluetooth, while all smartphone companies are removing the 3.5mm jack (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by bali10050 to c/assholedesign
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Neither does the PS5 but there's a 3.5mm jack and a built in mic in the controller. Sony's claim is that standard Bluetooth isn't fast enough to stay in sync with the screen and your control inputs, so they have their own bespoke wireless (but not Bluetooth) headset. I'm happy enough with a cheap pair of wired headphones from the supermarket.

[–] Metallibus 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sony's claim is that standard Bluetooth isn't fast enough to stay in sync with the screen and your control inputs, so they have their own bespoke wireless (but not Bluetooth) headset.

To be fair, this is kind of true... Most Bluetooth latency is fucking atrocious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yup. Main reason I don't bother with bluetooth mice and use either radio mice with receivers or wired mice over them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, music and videos are about the limits of it.

I don't really think this is asshole design, because if they alloed ot people would 100% complain saying the audio is laggy.

[–] NOT_RICK 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just chiming in to add that Xbox controllers also have 3.5mm jacks, although they’re annoyingly incompatible with Sony’s 3.5mm Jack to get the mic working (at least last time I tried with a pair of old iPhone earbuds which use the same configuration as Sony).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Now THAT is asshole design. Just make it work, you fucks. You know you can.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll be honest, I always preferred wired headsets for the convenience, extra functionality on switch, and not having to charge yet another device.

[–] bali10050 1 points 1 year ago

I did too

[–] ZiemekZ -2 points 1 year ago

Just use a PC. #pcmasterrace