It's in it's retail skin if it is. Only way to tell is to lift the battery cover and read the label to see if it says Prototype and no FCC labels, etc. A true prototype to me is one that has no labels or markings, as it's a prototype! As in "first impression" of something. The term prototype gets thrown around too often, even by Microsoft themselves. But from the pictures you posted, it's an early Xbox One retail controller with a Microsoft inventory sticker on it.
New photos: What do You think? IMHO it is retail controller. Seller sad, that is controller only for Xbox One testers. It has different thumbsticks, logo and better plastic material.
The wording on the sticker is different than a Day One and the newer Xbox One controllers with headset jacks, Model # is identical and so is the FCC ID: #. I'd say retail, thumb sticks look like my Day One, same with the logo. "WIRELESS CONTROLLER for XBOX ONE" on both of mine and yours is as pictured above. If you have another Xbox One controller, compare the 2. It could be anything really, shipped with a dev kit or sold in other countries or just a Chinese fake.
Here is a Prototype Xbox One Controller Also some seem to have a Blue LED and not a white one. The quote is from @XboxSurgeon More Pics Spoiler: pics Mockup Prototype Xbox One Controller Spoiler: PICS
Yeah, I'm gonna say no. At MS in Redmond, all the controllers and extras like that are marked with an asset tag which is all that sticker is.
The fact it has a FCC ID makes it pretty clear that it's a mass production item - it's both expensive and slow to put something through the type approval process, so companies don't bother doing it unless it's at least proposed to be the retail model. You wouldn't bother doing it for a prototype, since any changes made in development would invalidate the type approval. This is also why you find trail run units that are physically identical to final production marked as being not for sale pre-production units - in the US, it's illegal to sell anything that is subject to FCC approval without obtaining it - but there is a testing exemption that allows the manufacturer or importer of record to supply pre-approval samples to end users as long as they don't do so on a basis (sale or leasing) that actually transfers ownership.
The prototypes had a zebra pattern (http://leadergamer.com.tr/img/haber-foto/XboxOneZebra.jpg) which was a giant QR code to identify which studios were leaking photos of their gear, and Xbox One at the time was under the codename "Durango". EDIT: It seems there were some black prototypes out there, possibly Microsoft's internal models that didn't make it out to studios?
Just a hunch based on how products work. The zebra pattern also helped conceal the design. Car companies go to extremes to do that. Following the announcement of the XBO, they would have no reason to keep doing that, but the controllers would still be prototypes, so they would have the markings, but no zebra
when car companies do real world testing they sometimes cover the cars in a thick material to cover up subtle body features.. This is probably a early retail unit that was used internally at Microsoft, most likely in their employee lounge area thingy. or probably just nicked from a Microsoft Store....
Looks like some pre-release stuff for game play testing. It has fcc cert so it's definitely not proto.
