Compatibility (Off-Topic)

by digital_ronin, Monday, December 14, 2015, 20:42 (3270 days ago) @ Kermit

I just did a bunch of research on this and landed on the A50s for compatibility and wireless.

The A50's will work with all consoles/PC/Mac no matter what version you buy, you just have to move the cables around. I ended up getting the Black/Yellow xbox ones because I liked the color and thought the extra chat cable for the original Xbox One controllers might be nice to have.

The new A40 TR's have specific mixamps for the consoles. So an Xbox One will not work on PS4 and vice-versa. Either will work on PC. This is because they wanted to eliminate the chat cable on the Xbox One, special Xbox specific hardware was added to the mixamp to accomplish this and it broke Playstation compatibility. The Xbox mixamps are white and the PS4 are black. Mixamps can be purchased separately, so if you bounce between consoles you can just pair the headset to the mixamp and be ready to go.

While difficult to find, there are last gen A40's with mixamp boxes, these work on all the different consoles by connecting the headset to the Xbox One controller with a cable. This allows you to use voice chat on Xbox One. Just beware that the A40's you see now are Xbox specific with a "mixamp" that connects to the controller.