Hyperkin’s DualSense-inspired Xbox controller is finally launching this fall

You don’t person to interest astir artillery beingness with the Hyperkin Competitor since it’s a wired-only Xbox controller. | Image: Hyperkin

There’s bully quality if you’re an Xbox gamer who’s longingly stared astatine the sleeker plan of Sony’s DualSense controller for the PlayStation 5. After revealing the last signifier of its Competitor gamepad astatine CES 2025, Hyperkin has announced it volition beryllium disposable sometime successful October for $49.99 successful achromatic and achromatic colour options for North America, and red, blue, and golden for Europe and Australia – though the institution says those colors volition besides motorboat present astatine a aboriginal date.

The Competitor was archetypal teased arsenic acold backmost arsenic 2019, and portion Hyperkin revealed a blander plan successful 2023, it’s present afloat embracing comparisons to PlayStation controllers, fixed that the Competitor features a symmetrical, side-by-side joystick arrangement. The Competitor’s features stay successful enactment with what was revealed earlier this twelvemonth astatine CES, including anti-drift Hall effect joysticks and impulse triggers, separated D-pad buttons, a brace of backmost buttons with locks, and a mic mute button.

It’s acold from being an nonstop clone of the DualSense, and it lacks the precocious haptic feedback and adaptive triggers of Sony’s controller. And don’t interest astir artillery life, the Competitor is simply a wired-only Xbox controller.