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As we continue our development journey to bring the evolutionary ProSteer to market we constantly receive feedback from game developers, testers and investors.

Hardware is hard. This old cliché is very well known in the startup community. Apart from the obvious truth that any startup project is a difficult task, I want to investigate some of hardware’s traditional challenges and some new challenges that have changed the hardware startup landscape in recent years.

When the ProSteer was first conceived and Boxdark was incorporated we were very aware of the Mission Statement and its importance to a start-up. After all, I had been a Corporate Adviser to many start-ups in my previous business - Harvest Business Growth Partners, and we certainly espoused the use of a Mission Statement as a grounding force in the often turbulent waters of early stage innovative business. This all-encompassing statement was a tool to focus, guide and help founders hold course, return to source or pivot as times dictated.

CEO of Boxdark Phil Croft said “Xbox have very strict specifications to ensure maximum quality, functionality and reliability for their users. We have signed on to develop in line with these specs, and our team has embraced the challenge, we’re making great progress!”

BoxDark struck a deal with Xbox last week, fast-tracking the patented ProSteer gaming innovation into the Microsoft Partner Development Program.

The development team at Boxdark are very happy to report that our US Patent No 10,688,387 for our Articulated Gaming Controller (ProSteer) has been granted and Issued.

Development of the ProSteer is now 3 years and 18 versions old. As a precision input device it is key that the ProSteer’s hardware interfaces correctly with the software (games) it controls.