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You Could Be Owed A Free Rechargeable Xbox Controller Battery - Here's Why

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Some Xbox Wireless Controllers sold between December 2025 and April 2026 shipped without AAs, and Microsoft is offering a rechargeable battery as compensation.

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Customers who received missing batteries can obtain replacement batteries from the manufacturer at the company's expense. Beginning in December of last year, Microsoft sold batches of Xbox controllers that were inadvertently not supplied with batteries. The extent of this oversight has not been disclosed, but the company has already issued an official apology to its customers. A number of controllers were shipped without batteries. In that case,…

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GAMINGDEPUTY broke the news in on Saturday, April 11, 2026.
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