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[Codeblew]

You can easily swap the battery in like five minutes on our own.

Looks a lot more involved on the dual sense edge. I can't believe (or can I) they cheaped out on the battery for a $200 controller.

 

[Sept Terrion Of Nothing]

Your statements about Dualsense are all true. Weak battery, some drifts, cheap analog sticks material.

But I cannot tear myself apart from it. It is symmetrical, size and weight just perfect. The feelings of buttons and D-Pad is so good for me. I don't need to remind haptics as well.

Sony really should upgrade it with good, durable materials, hall sensor sticks and good battery. If they revised it with these specs, they will reach nirvana for sure. And I believe it will not cost them too much to add these.

 

[Randall365]

the controller is dualsensing while you are not at home.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

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[BlitzerRadic]

Looks a lot more involved on the dual sense edge. I can't believe (or can I) they cheaped out on the battery for a $200 controller.

People who say this are clueless. I have taken apart my edge multiple times. The battery is the way it is because there is no room for a bigger battery.

 

[Rocco Schiavone]

People who say this are clueless. I have taken apart my edge multiple times. The battery is the way it is because there is no room for a bigger battery.

Doesn't change the fact that Sony could easily add batteries with more capacity.

Strange that i can replace the shitty Dualsense batteries with other batteries at the same size with 70% more capacity.

 

[Codeblew]

People who say this are clueless. I have taken apart my edge multiple times. The battery is the way it is because there is no room for a bigger battery.

You should talk about being clueless.
1. Just watch the two videos, the dual sense edge has more steps to get to the battery.
2. The battery is the way it is because Sony cheaped out. They could have made more room if they wanted to.

 

[Gamerguy84]

My dualsense holds charge. I can walk away for weeks. If it had a full charge it will have one when I come back.

 

[saintjules]

What is a Dualsense 5? There's only one iteration of it.

 

[krumble]

Having gone through 4 standard DualShock controllers since December 2020 due to stick drift In this household I bought myself an edge after my 2nd one was lost to stick drift, and got my partner an edge when the new DualShock he got when I got my edge was lost to drift too. The edge battery sucks hard, I bought a 2000 mah battery from aliexpress which is the largest that will fit still, helps a little, and means I can play more than once before it’s needing a charge.

As for the whole ideas of turning things off to increase battery life, yeah no, that’s just stupid, but I have learnt to have an official dock charger near the couch in the lounge and also 1 x wired charger into a wall socket and the clamp that comes with the edge on.
Between them this just about keeps things running when a controller starts to flash up low battery mid game.

Had to replace my 1st stick module on the edge after more than a year of use, went from working perfect to strong drift over night and wasn’t dropped or damaged, have 2 more spare stick modules waiting in the wings and will see what I can do with this one that’s drifting, from what I understand due to t(e lack of calibration software the edge modules aren’t too easy to fix - I’ve never been successful at replacing a stick on a standard controller so I doubt I’ll be any different on the edge

Honestly Sony & Microsoft needs a class action lawsuit against them about these crap controllers and their design flaws that mean that stick drift isn’t an “if” Its an eventuality and these should not be considered consumables

 

[CompleteGlobalSaturation]

I still have no idea why they do not give us the option for Eneloop batteries.

The best thing about Xbox controllers is you are free to insert your own batteries ore a rechargeable battery pack.

 

[Nemesisuuu]

Sadly, battery life is pure garbage on Dualsense, I have 2 that i rotate since it empties really fast. Shame that you have to open gamepad to change the battery, it would be great to have option like on Xbox to buy an official battery that lasts like 40 hours.

 

[adamsapple]

I still have no idea why they do not give us the option for Eneloop batteries.

The best thing about Xbox controllers is you are free to insert your own batteries ore a rechargeable battery pack.

Agreed.

Started off sounding like a hindrance, but has proven to be the more effective solution. My Dualsense goes from full to 'low battery' warning in 5~7 hours (with haptics disabled) while the eneloops not only hold a much longer charge by default, and it just takes 5 seconds to swap out with 2 charged batteries (set of 4 was $15 or so back in 2020 when I bought it, still going strong).

 

[CompleteGlobalSaturation]

Agreed.

Started off sounding like a hindrance, but has proven to be the more effective solution. My Dualsense goes from full to 'low battery' warning in 5~7 hours (with haptics disabled) while the eneloops not only hold a much longer charge by default, and it just takes 5 seconds to swap out with 2 charged batteries (set of 4 was $15 or so back in 2020 when I bought it, still going strong).

I purchased my original Sanyo Eneloops in 2014 + my Panasonic Eneloops in 2019.

Been using them for PC gaming for the past 10 years and I probably charge them once every 3 weeks. Despite being so old, I have not noticed any discernable loss in performance.