Sony’s caller PS5 controller, the wireless DualSense Edge, looks mean enough. It has the close fig of buttons and capable abstraction to remainder your hands connected its boomerang-shaped plastic. But its utmost customization presumably explains wherefore it costs $200, astir 3 times the basal terms for the modular PS5 controller. A premium terms for a premium product, I guess—as agelong arsenic you’re not expecting it to unrecorded arsenic agelong arsenic its predecessor.

Sony isn’t truly hiding that, astatine least. In its hands-on preview, The Verge notes that PlayStation spokesperson Ken Zhang said the caller DualSense volition person a “moderately shorter” operating clip than the archetypal PS5 controller, which has between five and 10 hours of charge.

“We’ve included galore much features wrong the aforesaid signifier origin and ergonomic plan arsenic the archetypal DualSense controller,” Zhang continued. “Additionally, the longer USB braided cablegram is besides large for competitory players who similar playing with a wired transportation to debar wireless interference – this enactment preserves artillery life.”

Zhang did not specify however overmuch shorter artillery beingness would be, and Sony did not instantly respond to Kotaku’s petition for elaboration. In immoderate case, it seems similar according to Sony the main propulsion of the DualSense Edge shouldn’t beryllium the battery, anyway, but the “ultra-customizable controls” it’s been touting successful trailers and web store descriptions.

Most of DualSense Edge’s features tin beryllium mapped oregon changed, including its swappable joysticks (which you person to bargain separately), 3 types of interchangeable instrumentality caps, 2 types of mappable backmost fastener sets, and triggers with modifiable lengths. The controller volition besides person an “on-controller idiosyncratic interface” connected its bottommost side, which you tin usage to set measurement with a headset connection, among different apt utile quality-of-life features.

The modular $200 carrying lawsuit already contains a fewer of those customizations, too. If you bargain it, you’ll receive:

• The controller
• USB braided cable
• Two modular instrumentality caps
• Two precocious dome instrumentality caps
• Two debased dome instrumentality caps
• Two half-dome backmost buttons
• Two lever backmost buttons
• Connector housing
• The acquisition manual

Along with the carrying case, of course.

Despite the disappointing artillery news, The Verge senior exertion Sean Hollister complimented astir of the controller’s customizations successful his preview, noting however casual it was to popular retired a joystick oregon swap his D-pad with his look buttons conscionable because.

Personally, I don’t cognize however overmuch much I’d similar being capable to fret implicit each facet of my controller alternatively of simply gaming successful peace. I’ll astir apt clasp onto my $200 until the next, next, adjacent procreation of controllers motorboat fireworks successful the signifier of Aloy from Horizon via the location fastener and speech maine retired of it.