Microsoft's Xbox Adaptive Controller on display at London's V&A museum

Microsoft's Xbox Adaptive Controller is one of the company's most important products in recent times, allowing gamers with a wide variety of disabilities to play their favorite titles with ease.

And now, coinciding with its launch, the London V&A museum has added the controller to its gallery dedicated to groundbreaking moments in design.

"The Xbox Adaptive Controller was an object that we thought very much captured a specific moment within the field of videogames but also more broadly about social and inclusive design. It's a real opportunity to bring an object into the collection that addresses the question of inclusive design head on. It's an important and attractive acquisition for us here at the V&A."

It lies in the Rapid Response Collecting area of the museum and will have a permanent place here. It joins Microsoft's previously added Minecraft related items which reside in the Museum of Childhood area.

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The Xbox Adaptive Controller should be available to order in the UK from September 4 for a local price of £74.99 with a shipping date of September 30.

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