Broken WIRED Xbox One Controller

Saying "my 360 controller has never broken" isn't even relevant to the OP's post, as he's talking about Xbox One controllers.

Are you sure because unless I've missed it, Microsoft don't release their own Xbox One wired controller. If it is a third party model then he's complaining to the wrong company. So it's fair to assume a wired controller on the Xbox forum would be an official
Xbox 360 wired controller.

He could be talking about a USB cable into a Xbox One controller but if the fault is with the controller's USB port then taping it together would only cause more damage.

Wow, i've never heard of this. Have you tried the back of the wires? Possibly the wires may not be in properly. Or maybe your Xbox Controllers are slightly broken, Because if you press the "X" on the controller it turns it on. Maybe try looking at the wires
or the controller?

Hope this helped

Did you try updating the firmware on ur controller? I had this happen to two of my xbox elite controllers aswell one of them was a wolferine elite, it wont update firmware on xbox, or pc. They were wired, and it was the wire inpluck that was broken. Hope
you figure it out, before warrenty runs out

If im reading this right, Your wired controller is broken, like there's something shorting it out. Causing the power failure, and seeing that you said wireless controller work fine on the gears of war console, It points at the fact that the wired controller
that you are using is broken.

Is the USB cord connected to the controller and can't be removed? Or are you using a removable Play&Charge cable?

Usually, when the controller shows two alternately flashing LED's, it is a sign that the batteries are almost empty.

If it's a wired controller, it could be, that the wires in the cable are broken, and you have a loose contact in one of the wires (maybe because the cable was bent too much or too often).

In that case, the PC won't recognize the USB device properly, and in the case the controller was connected, the wire inside the cable lost contact, and then connects the broken wire again, the controller might be detected as a new controller device, and
is then assigned the "Player 2", "Player 3" or "Player 4" LED quadrant.