[prettygood]

Everything Microsoft did with Xbox long before Sony?

If we focus purely on the console gaming market, Microsoft did a lot for disabled people. Multiple different controllers and systems were released this generation.

[FirmwareBurner]

It's important to remember that Microsoft has been making PC input devices and gaming peripherals (and decent ones at that) all the way back since the '90s.

Microsoft gets a lot of well deserved flack, but their peripherals were almost always top notch, in line with Logitech or even better. Remember their ergonomic split keyboards form the '90s?

Maybe some of that UX design heritage rubbed off to the X-box as well.

[com2kid]

Having briefly worked on the xbox 360 accessories team, I honestly think it is just because the people there really care.

From what I (indirectly) understand, the Microsoft accessories team (keyboards, mice, etc) has been dismantled and reformed a number of times.

The XB1 controller is an extra odd situation, the team who was the Xbox 360 accessories team made the initial XB1 controller, and then that team became the Microsoft Band team, and an entire different team took over console controllers.

[dghlsakjg]

The PlayStation also dates to the 90s, years before Xbox was a thing. Sony is a tech company far older than MS that specializes in hardware and design. They invented entire categories of device with novel ux(the Walkman).

If they wanted to do this earlier, they could have.

[bozhark]

So has Sony.