Nintendo's Power Glove has just become an Xbox controller

Do you remember the Power Glove? It was an accessory launched by Mattel, to be used as a controller for the NES. The peripheral wasn't a hit, but over the years that particular controller has become something of a retrogaming fetish. And from today it also works on Xbox Series S.



No, no revival. No one has produced a Power Glove 2.0, far from it. Actually this sort of experiment was conducted by Will It Work and involved a USB cable that turns the controllers for the NES into "generic controllers". Everything was passed through the Titan One, a sort of mapper for the keys of the peripherals that you want to connect to the new generation consoles. Once the setup was complete, the user behind the YouTube channel was able to get everything to work, albeit not quite perfectly.


Experiment failed? Apparently yes. If you own a Power Glove, our advice is not to try to connect it to your Xbox Series S. This particular controller is probably destined to remain a relic of the past, belonging to an era when video games were much simpler. Perhaps in the future there will be room for such controllers, perhaps also combined with virtual reality, but today it is very unlikely that they will work properly.