Thursday, January 11th 2024
Sony PS5 V2 DualSense Controller Leaked by Best Buy
Best Buy Canada's site listed—by mistake—an entry for a Version 2.0 of Sony's venerable PlayStation 5 DualSense controller—the retailer proceeded to remove the leaked information and imagery, but several news outlets have preserved crucial details. The nixed page advertised a yet to be released "PlayStation 5 V2 DualSense Wireless Controller," that looks identical in appearance to Version 1.0—it even shares the same pricing of CA$89.99. Hooray for no price hiking, if this info is indeed accurate. A couple of internet sleuths have noticed that a Swiss retailer has listed V2 controllers (in white or camo)—these web pages became active back in December 2023.
The standout revelation from this leak appears to be much improved battery life—the Best Buy Canada website entry mentioned V2 being capable of lasting 12 hours on a single charge. Folks familiar with the current PS5 DualSense controller are accustomed to around six hours of usage, before a wired recharge session is required. The listing also outlined a Dual Sense charging station being bundled with Sony's V2 game controller. The sleuths also noted that the next iteration has an advertised weight of 280 g—CFI-ZCT1W AKA "V1" comes in at 360 g. Several online publications have contacted Sony PlayStation for a comment on the situation.
Sources:
Eurogamer, Gadget Match, Resetera
The standout revelation from this leak appears to be much improved battery life—the Best Buy Canada website entry mentioned V2 being capable of lasting 12 hours on a single charge. Folks familiar with the current PS5 DualSense controller are accustomed to around six hours of usage, before a wired recharge session is required. The listing also outlined a Dual Sense charging station being bundled with Sony's V2 game controller. The sleuths also noted that the next iteration has an advertised weight of 280 g—CFI-ZCT1W AKA "V1" comes in at 360 g. Several online publications have contacted Sony PlayStation for a comment on the situation.
12 Comments on Sony PS5 V2 DualSense Controller Leaked by Best Buy
I like the games and the console but yeah, Sony can be real fucking assholes sometimesAs true as that is, microsoft has a lot more colour options available and even has an online configurator where you can mix and match whatever you want.You probably just didn't notice it, the underlying technology is the same and so are it's limitations.
There's 2 simple ways to avoid drift though, one is as you mention hall effect sensors, they're a bit more expensive but at the price controllers (be it ps5 or xbox) are sold they have more than enough profit margin to use them. The other is to simply include calibration routines and have them run or the option to run them frequently, it's that simple lol
You'll need to do full rotation on the stick once and boom, it works great again.
It was a genius solution and I still wonder why they didn't put that on newer controllers.
The worse part is not even the refusal to use better joysticks, is that they could simply include a calibration menu in consoles and they don't (it is that simply to eliminate joystick drift, just redefine the zero, you could also reduce the size of the deadzones, just a few dozen lines of code and this wouldn't be a problem)