Hefty, but flawed, expensive, pads...
TLDR:
Wouldn’t recommend
Pros:
Easy to open up and repair
Replacement parts cheap
Extra functionality with rear paddles
Feels solid
Uses normal AA batteries
Lots of custom parts out there to customise the aesthetic
Cons:
For a “pro” controller, seems to break easily
Lots of reports of stick drift
Cheap replacement parts shouldn’t be a pro - it should be a quality warning!
Not worth the high price tag,
Thoughts:
(As a bit of background, I bid on this auction, knowingly buying two broken Elite pads. Paying less for the two than one in good condition would sell for on its own.)
This feels like a robust controller, but bear in mind that both of the controllers I won in the auction were broken - doesn’t exactly stir up feelings of confidence. There’s a good weight to the pad (so if you’re the sort that likes to launch your controller in rage, this is one that’ll do some damage to whatever it hits.
The pads feel as though they’re well made and there’s good action on the analog sticks and triggers (now that I’ve fixed ‘em up.) The digital pad responds accurately, and the various buttons seem to do what they’re meant to, when they’re meant to, with no perceptible lag. Not very impressed with the disc pad, but the cross pad works well.
I guess my biggest issue with the Elite concerns the rear paddles. Maybe I’m just too uncoordinated, but I find the rear paddles too easy to hit by accident. I love the idea of having the extra buttons there, but they just seem to be poorly placed (the Razer Wolverine has a much more sensible design.)
If I hadn’t got these at such a cheap price (for fixing up) I wouldn’t have bothered. There really isn’t anything that special to justify the high price tag!
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