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As a person who has both, you gotta admit the care that Sony puts into their hardware.

This time around the Xbox Series X is arguably sleeker, but by God is the controller pure trash.

The Xbox’s controller vibrations resemble those of a cheap trimmer, whereas the Playstation’s controller has a much nicer feel.

It’s also a fact that many games are better optimized for PS5, even though on paper the Xbox should have a slight edge.

I don’t care about console wars, and I’m glad I have both of them, but some games are only on PS5, which is another reason people opt for it.

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Wow interesting. I have a feeling the controller thing is super dependent on what you’ve had more exposure to. I recently started gaming for the first time since I was younger and got the Xbox elite controller and love it but I can’t stand playstation controllers. The feedback feels wrong, buttons, everything. Granted like I said I haven’t used them much.

Xbox has always had more comfortable controllers imo. This gen it’s closer because PlayStation finally copied the ergonomics from an Xbox controller.

I've always found the original Xbox/Xbox one controllers horribly oversized and heavy compared to the PlayStation 2 ones. The early PS1 controllers without analog sticks were a bit small but personally they've always seemed to have the best balance of weight, size, shape, stiffness, and quality.

As I mentioned in another thread, dpads are still used especially in platform games that require precision and the Xbox dpad disk is horrendous.

I've had both playstation and Xbox, although I stopped after the original and the 360, and I can't imagine completing something like Celeste on an Xbox controller.

The Series S/X controller dpad is a pretty nice and clicky dpad. It's a farcry from the mush of the 360 or original Xbox and a step up from the Xbox One (which was already a lot better). I picked up one recently and even though on paper it's barely different from the Xbox One controller they made enough subtle tweaks and design changes that I actually really like it despite never really being a fan of the Xbox One controller.

Current Xbox controller is just fine, but I feel it stopped evolution. I want to see any evolution for controller, like trackpad for aim on Steam Controller.

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