• R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That was for efficiency on getting periscope qualified, most recruits already have familiarity with game controllers and it reduces training time since things like zooming with triggers just comes naturally due to the standardization of such things in gaming.

      They’re wired though, and it’s just an input for the periscope system which is otherwise running the same hardware.

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      1 year ago

      And to operate submarines, and to fly drones, and (in Israel) to drive tanks, etc. When they created the grenade they made it as similar to a baseball as possible so young recruits at the time would already know how to throw them. Similar idea to the controller, lots of young recruits will already have hundreds or thousands of hours of time logged on them, so it minimizes training time.

      This was how I knew that the Xbox Series X/S would have backwards compatible controllers. Microsoft has too much government money riding on the previous Xbox controllers for them to change it.