There’s excellent news when you’re an Xbox gamer who’s longingly stared on the sleeker design of Sony’s DualSense controller for the PlayStation 5. After revealing the final form of its Competitor gamepad at CES 2025, Hyperkin has introduced it is going to be out there someday in October for $49.99 in black and white coloration choices for North America, and pink, blue, and gold for Europe and Australia – though the corporate says these colours may even launch right here at a later date.
The Competitor was first teased way back to 2019, and whereas Hyperkin revealed a blander design in 2023, it’s now absolutely embracing comparisons to PlayStation controllers, on condition that the Competitor incorporates a symmetrical, side-by-side joystick association. The Competitor’s options stay consistent with what was revealed earlier this yr at CES, together with anti-drift Corridor impact joysticks and impulse triggers, separated D-pad buttons, a pair of again buttons with locks, and a mic mute button.
It’s removed from being an actual clone of the DualSense, and it lacks the superior haptic suggestions and adaptive triggers of Sony’s controller. And don’t fear about battery life, the Competitor is a wired-only Xbox controller.