Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows 10 pre-orders live on Amazon UK for £21

By John Callaham
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The Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows has been on sale for a few weeks in the US. Now that adapter is available for pre-order on Amazon UK. It allows people to play Windows 10 PC games wirelessly with Microsoft's current Xbox One controller. The UK price for the adapter is £21.83.

Here's a reminder of what the Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows is designed to do:

"With the Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows, you'll simply plug the Adapter into the USB 2.0 or 3.0 port of your Windows 10 PC and bind the Adapter to your Wireless Controller to enable the same gaming experience you're used to on Xbox One, including in-game chat and high-quality stereo audio."

This will also work for people who stream Xbox One games to play on their Windows 10 PC. Amazon UK will begin shipments of the Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows on November 20. The UK Microsoft Store also has listings for the adapter but shows out of stock with no indication on when it will be in stock.

Pre-order Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows at Amazon UK for £21.83 (opens in new tab)

John Callaham
John Callaham
25 Comments
  • I suspect that should be a £ sign in the write-up and not a $ ☺
  • Yeah. What you get for having an American writing about the Queen's currency ;-)
  • He really should have rounded it to the nearest pound too considering it's only 17p short of £22.
  • I wish it was a little cheaper. I guess I'll get it down the road. Plus I'd have to buy some AAA batteries for the controller. So like almost 30 for the whole thing. I'll wait some sale :P
  • Pick up a play and charge kit. When you're not using the controller just plug in the battery pack to your PC/XB1. That's what I do. Didn't get the official one, picked up a third-party two pack for like £10. I know it also makes it more money to spend but it's worth it in the long run over buying batteries all the time :D
  • I found that a long USB cable works out for when I'm charging the rechargable batteries for the controller. Either way is a temp wired solution but it's cheaper than a play and charge kit.
  • I keep intending to pick up one of those third party packs, seem like good value and the ones I'd used on the Xbox 360 fit pretty well into the controller. I just picked up a pack of 32 batteries on sale, but I'm sure I'll burn through those quickly over the Christmas period with the amount of 3am Halo sessions I've been putting in lately
  • I picked up 2 packs of hipstreet's usbcell on a deal site around xb1's release 2 packs for the price of 1
  • Yea, classic. They really think they can price it at half the cost of a Steam controller and people will fall for it? And still we can't update the firmware on a PC? Not very impressive...
  • I'm confused - I'm in the UK and have had this for a couple of weeks now. Only cost me £15 as well. Posted via the Windows Central App for Android
  • I'm also confused. I'm guessing you got the game misprice for £15 same as me and I've had it at least a month now.
  • Yeah that's the one! Lookslike we got a bargain - has it really been a month already? Damn, I only started using mine a few days ago lol Posted via the Windows Central App for Android
  • I got the Game misprice as well. That aside, it's been out weeks so I'm just a little confused by the pre-order part.
  • Yeah, same - I pre-ordered it agessss ago from Game.co.uk, had it a while now but only just started using it. Don't understand pre-order nov 20 release thing at all. Weird. Posted via the Windows Central App for Android
  • That sounds like the NA revised release date
  • This should be built into all Microsoft tablets, phones, and laptops.
  • $25=£21?! WTH!
  • $25 +20% = $30 ~= £19.75 So yeah, not to far off and seeing as you can get them for £19.99 at Game... Well, you can't really complain.
  • If this will allow me to use an XBOX controller on emulators as well, I'd get one in a heartbeat.
  • It does allow for use on emulators.
  • Its £19.99 on game website but out of stock online its been available since 27th October
    https://www.windowscentral.com/e?link=https2F%2Fclick.linksynergy.co...
  • Also sub £20 on ShopTo's website, where it has been for a few weeks. http://www.shopto.net/video-games/xbox-one/XB1AC217-xbox-wireless-adapte...    
  • Saw this and thought Microsoft were releasing an Xbox stick
  • It does look pretty big in the picture - Almost like it's the size of a Roku/Amazon stick.
  • Well this is a 1st of its kind seeing as white-fi isn't in production phase yet