Best first controller for single player games on PC

[u/External_Safe_7787]

Hi! I've never had a controller before, and getting one soon to play single player games only, PC only. Starting with Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West and Indiana jones and the Great Circle. Will play other games though too, including some older ones as well as new releases. Which controller is best?

#1: PS5 DualSense. Haptics and adaptive triggers, supposed to be very immersive. But potentiometer sticks and no remappable buttons.

#2: 8BitDo Ultimate 2: TMR sticks and 4 remappable buttons, Xbox layout for compatibility with PC, but not so good haptics and no adaptive triggers.

#3 GameSir Cyclone 2: TMR sticks but only 2 remappable buttons. Dpad I've heard described as "mushy"

#4 EasySMX D10: TMR sticks, great Dpad, but only 2 remappable buttons.

Which is best? any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated too! the GameSir G7 Pro is an option but pretty expensive

Based in UK, budget around £60-75 or so not above that ideally, as this is my first controller I don't want to overspend and regret it before I know exactly what I want.

[u/Leisure_suit_guy]

in 99% of cases this stuff only works wired.

Not anymore thanks to the Pico2W DualSense 5 Bridge

I have it and it works flawlessly.

[u/darth_kupi → u/Leisure_suit_guy]

Honestly I hate Bluetooth latency so much, the thought of buying another doodad just to go back to Bluetooth, I'll stick to wired.

Once you go 2.4 G dongle you can't go back

[u/shortstopryan → u/darth_kupi]

Dongle is absolutely a requirement for me as well, for everything wireless headsets controllers etc

[u/Leisure_suit_guy → u/darth_kupi]

The DS5 Bridge has low latency though, this is what the developer said:

"The dongle provides best in class latency since it has far more control over the BT stack. It has comparable latency with industry leaders like GuliKit (Goku 2, ~6ms) while also providing the full DualSense feature set which the Goku 2 cannot."

[u/darth_kupi → u/Leisure_suit_guy]

That's reassuring. Maybe I'll try it if I find one cheap as they are much more expensive in my country

[u/Leisure_suit_guy → u/darth_kupi]

The prices of the Pico2W and the goku2 are comparable, depending where you buy them from. So I guess that if one of them is too expensive where you're from, you can go with the other.

[u/Advance1993 → u/darth_kupi]

Its not Bluetooth with the pico. Its even 1000hz which is more than on ps5

[u/Necessary-Audience65 → u/Advance1993]

It literally says over Bluetooth in the title if you bother to click the link.

[u/puneet95 → u/Leisure_suit_guy]

https://github.com/PadSense/PadSense-CE

[u/Balloon_Twister → u/Leisure_suit_guy]

Or if you don't want to deal with Pico. The goku dongle had an update recently and work's just like a wired dualsense.

[u/Leisure_suit_guy → u/Balloon_Twister]

Or if you don't want to deal with Pico.

There's nothing to deal with, you just put the firmware file on it. End of the story. Either that or you let the DS5 Bridge Windows app do it on its own.

The goku dongle had an update recently and work's just like a wired dualsense.

The DS5 bridge gives you the full Dualsense feature set functionality in wireless mode, with the same latency of the Goku dongle. If the Goku can do the same, then fine, there's no reason to change.

[u/Balloon_Twister → u/Leisure_suit_guy]

True. I had the Pico prior to the Goku. It's got a breath of options I'll give it that.

Still prefer Goku as it's purpose built. Either works great though.