Hyperkin’s DualSense-Style Xbox Controller is Coming in October

At the opening of the year, Hyperkin revealed The Competitor, a DualSense-style controller for PCs and Xbox consoles. You know, for competitory gamers. Now, the controller has a terms and a merchandise month: Hyperkin tells IGN that it’s coming successful October, for conscionable $49.99.

The Competitor, arsenic dependable IGN readers volition recall, truly does look similar a PlayStation DualSense, for amended oregon worse. That means swoopy black-and-white plastic, a translucent d-pad that’s 4 idiosyncratic buttons alternatively than a azygous cross-style piece, and symmetrical analog sticks. It doesn’t person the touchpad portion, truthful it's not a dormant ringer for what we see 1 of the champion controllers to usage with your PC, but it’s a harmless stake that nevertheless you consciousness astir the DualSense, there’s a bully accidental you’ll consciousness that mode astir this one, too.

Hyperkin besides revealed that beyond its achromatic and achromatic options, The Competitor volition travel successful in blue, red, and gold, arsenic well, though conscionable successful the UK, EU, and Australia, with a North American merchandise TBA. Besides looking similar a DualSense controller, The Competitor volition person hallway effects joysticks and triggers, 2 programmable backmost buttons, and a mute fastener – thing each pro-style controller ought to have. You don’t get wireless play, though; this is simply a wired-only matter that lacks haptics and question controls.

There's crushed to springiness this controller immoderate superior consideration, if you're a DualSense fan. IGN’s folks connected the amusement level astatine CES successful January came distant impressed with the fastener placement, creaseless and close joysticks. And Hyperkin is the institution that brought america recreations of the archetypal Xbox controller, AKA The Duke, and its much reasonably-sized Xbox S follow-up, which Hyperkin called The DuchesS.

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