Razer’s new DualSense Edge-style PS5 controller has TMR sticks

The Razer logo connected the trackpad is little evident connected the achromatic mentation (also, Razer got the instrumentality layout close this time). | Image: Razer

Razer is launching the Raiju V3 Pro, a $219.99 wireless controller made for the PlayStation 5 and PC. It’s an alternate to Sony’s $199.99 DualSense Edge, which it shares galore traits successful communal with, similar adjustable trigger propulsion distances, swappable rear paddles, other instrumentality nubs, and a hard carrying case. Plus, it comes with a 2-meter-long USB-C cablegram that lodges snugly into its charging larboard to marque it amended suited for unpredictable tourney play.

The Raiju V3 Pro seems astir arsenic bully arsenic a third-party PS5 wireless controller tin be, contempt a fewer omissions. It lacks adaptive triggers and rumble. Also, Sony doesn’t let Razer entree to the DualSense Edge’s suite of bundle customization features connected PS5, and it connects via a 2.4GHz USB-A dongle alternatively of pairing straight to the console.

However, the Raiju V3 Pro is the superior controller by 1 precise important criterion (and a fewer others below, depending connected taste): TMR joysticks. They are resistant to processing instrumentality drift, and they gully little powerfulness from the artillery erstwhile successful use. By comparison, Sony’s high-end controller uses ALPS instrumentality modules that are $20 each to regenerate erstwhile they inevitably endure from drift aft extended use. Add successful the outgo of 2 instrumentality replacements, and the DualSense Edge costs much than Razer’s caller controller.

The Raiju V3 Pro’s different plan elements don’t needfully marque it a amended prime implicit Sony’s, but they mightiness extremity the standard successful Razer’s favour for you. Its bulky grips capable my hands amended than the DualSense. I besides similar its eight-way directional pad that makes executing combos easier than with the four-way 1 connected Sony’s gamepad. Its mecha-tactile look buttons are made from PBT, a worldly utilized successful high-end keyboard keycaps, and I similar the bouncy, clicky consciousness of the fastener switches. Razer’s tinker-friendly attack to its rear paddles is novel; if you don’t privation to usage the 4 rear customizable buttons, they tin beryllium swapped with a headdress that astir seamlessly fills the gap.

There aren’t astir arsenic galore high-end wireless controllers for the PS5 arsenic determination are for the Xbox, truthful Razer’s Raiju V3 Pro is simply a invited competitor. You’ll beryllium capable to bargain it… sometime. Razer spokesperson Janine Warner told The Verge a time earlier this communicative went unrecorded that the merchandise is connected hold, and that it isn’t disposable to acquisition successful the US, pending regulatory clearance. Razer didn’t respond to a question astir what clearance it was awaiting.