But if someone wants to do an arcade controller, this changes almost nothing. Just solder the wires on the contact pads on an official Xbox controller. Impossible to detect via software
Even the turbo button can be done, with an intermediate IC that transforms the signal from the button to be intermittent
Posting the email of a Sony manager like that is not just “burning bridges”, this is “air raid on the bridge and the cities nearby”. Probably they just filed for bankruptcy or something like that, because when you tell customers to direct their rage to a specific manager, nobody else would ever want to do something with you