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hey everyone welcome to another episode of ask the experts the fantastic collaboration between cnet and GameSpot on the scene outside I'm Jeff Bakalar and Peter Brown for gamespot absolutely today we're talking about existing peripherals for the consoles like xbox 360 and playstation 3 will those flights tix bite sticks wheels headsets will they work with the new consoles that just came out let's tackle this console by console okay starting with the Xbox one nothing is going to work sorry at the moment sorry so everything from headsets to flight sticks two controllers those all have to be purchased brand new the ones that are made exactly for the Xbox one the one difference here is that Microsoft has plans to release an adapter for the headsets they've changed their proprietary connection from the xbox 360 for the xbox one controller so right now the old headsets don't work but potentially in the future you might be able to use those I'm actually kind of okay with the new proprietary connection yeah have you like used it yet i've used this yeah but eyes yeah so here here's the box that it comes in you could buy extra for 29 25 bucks the old headset connector was really flimsy in that connection and always flicker sure so I like that this is way more sort of grounded into the controller but like you said if you have a headset like an astro and a 4850 whatever it is it uses that patch cable that goes from the controller to the earcup gonna have to wait for an adapter come out for you to use that you can't take the optical audio signal yes just for the you know surround sound of the actual game audio yeah when it comes to voice it's a different story alright let's switch gears going over to the PlayStation 4 the DualShock 4 has a port at the bottom here that you can actually plug in any headphone or headset rather of one-eighth inch jack and it works with a lot of iphone headset compatible sort of devices and not only can you use it as a chat headset it can also get game audio out of radius 4 controller which is so amazing it's so not enough people are talking about it because all of the significant others in the world oh the ps4 designers their lives and their sleep yeah I mean people would spend a lot of money to buy wireless headsets to get the sort of functionality that you're getting straight from the controller yeah and it might not be surround sound but come on I mean for for having it just working outside of the controller is pretty great yeah apart from that on the PlayStation 4 the DualShock 3 will not work arcade sticks Sony said that it's going to be up to developers to program that functionality into the game sony also said though that the move controllers will work granted I don't think that there any game is at the moment that use move rennie people that really like using off I think the latter is harder to come by yeah tell us a little bit about the the existing sort of Bluetooth head headset I a good question yeah so the ps4 does have a bluetooth radio inside of it sony did not include Bluetooth functionality for headsets the little guys you'd put in your ear but they're coming out with a way for that to work they said sometime next year they don't have a patch out so that's coming and that'll be good for a lot of people who do already own stuff and basically the headsets aren't expensive peripheral if you want to keep using your existing equipment and save money you're gonna have to do it on the ps4 and talking about surround sound in headphones philip has a question about USB support on those headsets will it be able to do surround sound on the newer consoles well not with the xbox one right but with the ps4 there was a 1.5 system update that came out shortly after release and yeah so USB headsets will work now that includes the likes of Astor a 40s and turtle beach headsets and if those supports surround sound then it'll work I feel like we shouldn't maybe go right out and set and buy something before there's full support if you have like a legacy model like an astro a40 a 50 you're going to get the surround sound for the audio yeah for chat a little more dicey I guess it is also worth mentioning that the Kinect can be used to record voice audio during games it was only due to pressure from the audience and you know consumers right I led them to include this guy right well there you have it all the headset talk legacy options surround sound USB hope you guys learned a lot today that's going to do it for us on this episode of esque the experts I'm Jeff Bakalar and I'm Peter Brown thank you Peter Brown for being here we've got a lot more to talk about with these next-generation consoles plenty more questions that deserve answer it stay tuned and we'll see you guys very soon