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Are you happy with the DualSense battery life?
- Thread starter Shatty McKracken
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Its pretty rough if you dont turn everything down. Its about as bad as Dual Shock 4. I do think the Dual Sense charges a bit faster than the DS4 though. I also keep everything turned off/low to maximize battery life.
I think the longest playtime I ever get is about two hours, so the battery life is perfectly fine for my needs.
I wouldn't really describe AA's as "additional accessories" given they are a commonplace multi-purpose household item, as opposed to a USB C power pack that is exclusively designed and moulded to fit a PS5 DS controller.
I had replaced my PS4 controller internal battery with a 2000mah pack that lasted 20+ hours. Going to DualSense with less than 8 hours of battery life was kind of annoying and I plan on replacing that too once I find something that's compatible. From teardown pics, the battery has 3 wires instead of just the standard 2 so I'm wondering if anyone already did the work to figure out what the third wire is for.
The DS5 is not as bad as the DS4 but I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up having worse battery life than it after a couple years.
You can do that, but it continues running the fans. I'm not a fan (heh) of that.
Hate it. Those bells & whistles on this thing weren't worth it. I've turned most of them off anyway.
I think most have extra usb wall chargers laying around. Someone can always just plug the usb cord that came with the PS5, into that wall charger.
You have to get up off your butt for both scenarios. 🤷🏾♂️
Many in this thread have said it already though... getting that charging station has been a God Send... because I have two DS controllers anyway... and just throw it on top of that thing after a night of gaming. This was my first time buying a controller charging station, because I used to think it wasn't worth spending extra money on something like that...when I could just plug the controller into the PlayStation or wall outlet. But thank god I did get it.
You ain't wrong, these features do come with a cost, and all things considered the battery life could be a lot worse than it is - assuming it holds up better over time than DS4's battery did. I actually bought one of those charge dongles posted earlier in this thread a few months back, when I was playing through ME: Legendary Edition, and it's been a boon. I don't play with it on my controller, because it makes the controller feel top-heavy, but it's easy to keep charged and it triples the DualSense's battery life really inexpensively, so I've never minded it. I just slap that sucker onto my Dualsense when I'm done playing, and the Dualsense is ready to go soon after. Yeah, sure, it costs money (less than one might expect fwiw), but it's a lot less than buying a spare controller to keep charged and around, lol.
And you're right about scrutiny, it goes both ways. The reality of the Dualsense is indeed that you trade the expectation of long battery life for a novel suite of functionality that can't be had elsewhere. Everyone's gonna value that extra functionality differently, of course, but those are the facts. If anything, I feel compelled to give DualSense a pass for its battery life after thinking about it a bit more - although I will say that Sony ought to do what they can (when it becomes feasible, given all the shortages) to give PS5 owners more options for controllers. An 'elite' analogue is something I'd snap up in a heartbeat, and a revision that boosts the battery life a bit is something I'm almost certain we'll see a few months or years from now. It may be a while before we see licensed third party controllers for PS5, but the sooner, the better, because then players will be more able to choose what to prioritize, and will always have a solid point of comparison, since PS5 ships with a Dualsense as-is.
I still think the battery life comparison is a valid one to make, but (IMO) it's not like how it was with the Dualshock 4, where I personally saw the touchpad and LEDs as almost completely unnecessary in most cases, and as such couldn't really make an argument to justify its poor battery life. As long as my Dualsense will power through any reasonably-long gameplay session while giving me cool new features to play with, it's got a leg up on my Dualshock 4, lmao. I'm hoping for a day when controllers that have inbuilt battery packs ship with wireless charging pads for optimum convenience. Wasn't there a Dualsense patent floating around last year that suggested we'd see something like that for Dualsense, eventually? That would ease just about all of my battery life concerns, frankly - if I could just set my Dualsense down, walk away, and not ever worry about charge.
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