The dualsense controllers have have trash quality control for me. The dualsense that originally came with my ps5 had one analog stick that was squeaky sometimes, another one had a dpad that was sometimes squeaky, and this newest one I got like a year ago on sale but I’m just now using it and the plastic shell is super creaky on the right side when you grip it and the buttons feel completely different than my older ones. Maybe I’ve just been unlucky but that plus the fact that they raised the msrp on them last year is crazy. Prior to this generation I never had an issue with a first party controller.
Celsius, I...don't disagree man.
The 1st dualsense that came with my console (GOW Ragnarok bundle) was absolutely fine even after 1 year and a half of constant use.
The 2nd I got as a spare (galactic purple) got creaky/squeaky after 1 week, took it back to GameStop and exchanged it for a black one which still works fine 1+ years later.
Now, the one that came with the PS5 Pro...decided to die all of a sudden for no reason after only 2 months, at first the guide button would act weirdly in that it wouldn't bring up the pop-up menu all the time, it wouldn't turn on the console, it stopped sync-ing with the console and finally, not even one day later it was dead.
Sent it to Sony for repairs and 17 days later (took kind of long eh ?) I had a new/refurbished one.
So, that's 2 shitty out of 4 joypads in total, 50% faulty ratio in my case.
Now, the Xbox/XSX joypads on the other hand...I must have had 5 failures/faulty ones due to the bumper buttons giving up (twice), triggers grinding on the joypad's lower chassis, detached/not properly installed vibration motors resulting in terrible BrrrZZZzz sounds whenever they would get activated, sticky A/Y buttons etc etc.
Quality control has gone downhill the past few years and I can't understand how these companies continue to get away with it, shit sucks...
