Xbox One controller to be compatible with Windows PC

Xbox One controller to be compatible with Windows PC 'very soon,' says Microsoft

Microsoft will release Windows PC drivers to enable the use of an Xbox One controller with a PC "very soon," said Larry Hryb, director of Xbox programming, in a post on the forum NeoGAF earlier this week.

"Soon. Very soon," said Hryb, responding to a post wondering out loud about the availability of the drivers.

Microsoft said last August that it planned to make the Xbox One controller compatible with PC at some point in 2014. At the time, a spokesperson explained that the controller would require new software in order to optimize its performance with a PC, and that the company had to do some work to ensure that PC games compatible with an Xbox 360 controller would also work with an Xbox One controller.