Microsoft may not have had much to say about gaming yesterday, but with an interface like this in the works, video games clearly remain a basic pillar of the Xbox brand. Amidst exhaustive talk of instant-on television and fantasy football, the Xbox One controller offered reassuring familiarity. While some view the presence of both Kinect and a traditional controller in the same package as a symptom of Xbox One's uncertain focus - is it for hardcore gamers? Casual players? Both? Neither? - for dedicated fans the new pad offered one of the few concessions Microsoft seemed willing to make toward its core audience. While the company only briefly touched on the new system's controller in its hour-long console unveiling yesterday, the latest iteration of the Xbox gamepad dominated its behind-the-scenes follow-up demonstrations for assembled members of the press. Even though Microsoft's mantra for its Kinect motion-tracking peripheral has always been, 'You are the controller,' and even though Kinect is a mandatory feature of the newly revealed Xbox One, the old-fashioned buttons-and-thumbsticks gamepad won't be falling by the wayside in the coming generation.

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