The Xbox Elite Controller released last month and was very well received among gamers, despite its steep price ($/€ 150); it's actually very hard to get one right now, since it's out of stock in most stores.

　　The Elite controller has a steel construction with a soft-touch plastic exterior, along with interchangeable rear paddle buttons (with either short or long forms), analog stick tops (concave and convex), directional pad designs (either the traditional four-way design, or a convex disc-like design), and hair trigger locks for the triggers that allow users to reduce the amount of distance required to register a press. Through the Accessories app (available on both Xbox One and Windows 10 PC), users can customize button and paddle mappings and adjust the sensitivity of the triggers and analog sticks. Two button profiles can be assigned to a switch on the controller for quick access.

　　Today, David Prien (Senior Program Manager working on the Elite Controller) shared some info about future software improvements. It looks like there will be a way to customize sensitivity curves, which should help fix dead zone issues.

　　@burchmore500 coming soon

　　— David Prien @ E3 (@dprien) November 16, 2015

　　@burchmore500 in theory yes, that is why we are still perfecting

　　— David Prien @ E3 (@dprien) November 16, 2015

　　The ability to customize curves might also be available for triggers at some point.

　　@ColganTony @burchmore500 no short term plan but on table for sure, the hall effect vs switch makes a bit more difficult

　　— David Prien @ E3 (@dprien) November 16, 2015

　　We tried to ask about the likelihood of being able to map additional functions to the paddles for example, and it sounds like this feature might be coming after all.

　　@AlexiousRahl In order to do that it comes from the XB1 OS team as today we do not have mapping locations for this in the controller itself

　　— David Prien @ E3 (@dprien) November 16, 2015

　　@AlexiousRahl but that is an idea we are trying to get in, but new it would have to be after NXOE

　　— David Prien @ E3 (@dprien) November 16, 2015

　　@AlexiousRahl yes, that would be idea, just a lot more "use cases" for a PC, so working on best solution

　　— David Prien @ E3 (@dprien) November 16, 2015

　　Let's hope they can find a way to add this to the Accessories app, because it would be very useful in certain PC games. We'll keep you posted on news regarding the Xbox Elite controller, so stay tuned.