The ultimate PS5 controller? For now, perhaps.
Whether you loved or hated the DualSense’s buttons and joysticks, you should know they largely haven’t changed mechanically. I brought along my PS5 launch controller from home and Sony provided another, and the only discernible difference I could feel with the DualSense Edge was that the sound of pressing a button was slightly deadened. Perhaps they’re more precise, but I couldn’t tell in my demos.
The paddles are brand new for Sony, but if you’ve ever touched an Xbox Elite controller, you probably know what they’re like — nice, rigid, cool to the touch scoops of metal that rest under your fingers, which can easily be dropped into the back of your gamepad or yanked if you’re worried they’ll get in the way.
. Alas, Sony tells me you’re still getting potentiometer-based joysticks here, and it wouldn’t even begin to talk about the possibility of additional parts for the Edge. I’d like to see Hall Effect modules and some different stick tops, too.You can map almost every button on this controller to any other button — save the touchpad and system keys like PlayStation and Share, all of which you can at least turn off to avoid any butterfingers incidents.
You can save a total of 30 different profiles on your console, but you don’t need to leave them there — Sony imagines you could take the DualSense Edge to a tournament, plug it in with your bundled USB cable, and have your three saved profiles ready to go in the controller’s internal memory.And Sony confirms to me that you can take them to PC, too — as long the game and / or game platform support them, which might take a little work since it isn’t exactly the same as a DualSense.
While the controller doesn’t come with its own charging dock, you should know it’s got the same copper contacts on the bottom to easily slide it into the same official Sony charger you might be using with your DualSense, and it’s got the same 3.5mm jack should you want to plug in a headset. In fact, it’s easier to use a headset than ever: hold down on the new Function keys, and you can easily raise and lower headset volume without ever diving into a menu.
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