This is a decent controller…but only if you use it as a wired controller with a USB cable. I’ll explain. And for the record, I’m using the controller with a Windows PC.
First, the good. The design is really nice, with the color rings a really snazzy touch. It fits great in my hand, very comfortable and natural. The buttons and the joysticks have a great action. And when connected to the PC with a USB cable, it works fine. However, the controller is heavily promoted as being wireless, which in practice it really isn’t.
The wireless connection between the dongle and the controller is terrible. You can be playing a game just fine for several minutes and then suddenly it's unresponsive. So you're moving the joysticks or pressing the buttons and nothing happens. Or the controls get "stuck" – you move the joystick in a particular direction once and the game acts like you're still pressing the joystick in that direction. I've tried everything to troubleshoot this and nothing helps. I made sure that the controller was fully charged (I let it charge overnight). I tried the dongle in every single USB port just in case it was having an issue with one of them. And while using it I kept moving the controller closer and closer to the dongle until I was less than a foot away just in case the signal was weak. But nothing fixed the connection issue.
I also tried this on Bluetooth. My PC sees the controller and connects to it, and for a couple seconds the green status light on the controller stays solid, but then it starts blinking again as if it’s still searching for a connection. And sure enough, the controller doesn’t work. So Bluetooth doesn’t work either.
Bottom line, it’s a perfectly fine controller with a nice feel, but it’s totally not usable as a wireless device. For me personally, I got this controller to have a wireless device instead of my wired Xbox controller. But since I can only really use this new controller with a USB cable, it is just a second wired controller, which I really don't need.
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